Indespensible Programmes

[Glenn Wolsey]

With your job, or your home uses of your Mac, what are your indespensible applications?

Don't count anything that was preinstalled on the machine, like Mail and Safari. Just third party. Mine:

iOrganize (Notes)
Vienna (RSS Reader)
Wallet (Serial and list managment)
Microsoft Word (I am a writer)

 

[Diatribe]

Mine

 

[yellow]

Terminal.app
Remote Desktop.app
Safari.app
World of Warcraft.app

 

[radiantm3]

I have a bigger list on my website, but these are probably the core apps I would have a hard time going without:

Textmate - Text Editor
FontExplorer X - Font Management
iBank 2 - Finance Management
NetNewsWire - RSS Reader
Quicksilver - App Launcher
Transmit - FTP Client
Voodoo Pad - Notepad to jot down thoughts

 

[solaris]

Camino -> Web browser
Adium -> Instant Messenger
VideoLAN Client -> Media player
Quicksilver -> Application launcher
Transmission -> BitTorrent client

 

[Palad1]

Quicksilver
Terminal
Fink
Firefox
Nethack

 

[TheMasin9]

mine

word
excel
toast
mac the ripper
handbrake
romeo

 

[FadeToBlack]

Aside from Apple apps, a few of my favorites are:

Saft
Graphic Converter
Toast Titanium 7

 

[kiwi-in-uk]

WORK ...
Freemind
Notebook
Powerpoint
Word
Excel
Pages
Billings
Stickies

LIFE ...
Rapidweaver
Seashore
PSE3
Image Tricks
Comiclife
Motion
iLife
Disclabel
Adium

 

[BollywooD]

FreeDMG
Toast 7
MainMenu
Quick Access
Flip4Mac

 

[Soulstorm]

Xcode
X-Chat Aqua
Firefox
Virtual PC

UT2004 (for those late nights that I need to relax by killing someone )

 

[ezekielrage_99]

iLife (can't wait for '06)
Handbrake
Pages
Photoshop
3D Studio MAX
Combustion
Studio MX
World of Warcraft
Call of Duty (mindless violence, there is no substitute)


And no one has said Solitare..... how disappointing

 

[bigandy]

ummm, well, about every app i use is essential, and mac only.

final cut studio
aperture
adium
iStopMotion, a wonderful app
macromedia studio 8
mactheripper
handbrake
menumeters
apple remote desktop
shake 4


i could go on.

 

[Palad1]

ummm, well, about every app i use is essential, and mac only....
menumeters

This app is great, the network menu is a godsend, it allows for quick access to your different ip addresses, interfaces configuration, stats and so on... all through a small menu, it does much more thant just display pretty graphs as the versiontracker summary suggest.

Do try it out.

 

[LeningradCowboy]

Amazing myNotes (Yes, that's my own creation )
Transmit
Smultron (pretty nice free code editor)
Photoshop

 

[20rogersc]

Sizzling Keys for iTunes has to be one near the top.
CandyBar for icons.
Pixadex also for icons.
OpenOffice for not using M$ Products.
And a few others...

::20ROGERSC::

 

[Marky_Mark]

iTunes
Mail
Safari
Photoshop Elements
Graphic Convertor
Toast
M$ Office
Free Solitaire 3D

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

iTunes!

That's the only indespensible one, but many others are nice, too.

 

[ebally]

I would have to say my indespenable programs are (In order):

BitTorrent (Official)
VLC
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Adobe Photoshop
Delicious Library

 

[Epicurus]

On a daily basis I use:

iTunes
Safari
Mail
iCal
Calculator
Keynote
LaTeX Equaqtion Editor
Microsoft Excel
Terminal
iTeXMac
Bibdesk
Matlab (with X11)
OmniGraffle Pro
Dreamweaver
Fetch

Most likely in that order too.

 

[Glenn Wolsey]

Update:

Safari
Mail
Word
Aperture
Wallet
iTunes

 

[Caitlyn]

Dreamweaver 8 - Web Coding and Design
Photoshop CS - Graphics
Adium X - IM
Firefox - Web Browser
Wallet - Serial/Note Management
Copywrite - Writing of Stories/Articles, etc.
Toast 6 - DVD/CD Burning

 

[Aarow]

The only third party apps that I use a lot are:

Adium X
The GIMP
OnyX
Bullet

 

[steelphantom]

Camino - web browser
Adium - AIM/MSN IM application
Smultron - text editor
Cyberduck - FTP application (I'd like to have Transmit, although I don't want to shell out the 30 bucks. )
Limewire - well, you know...

 

[Glenn Wolsey]

Camino - web browser
Adium - AIM/MSN IM application
Smultron - text editor
Cyberduck - FTP application (I'd like to have Transmit, although I don't want to shell out the 30 bucks. )
Limewire - well, you know...

Just buy Transmit, you know you want too