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sup3r1or

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Jun 24, 2010
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Manchester, UK
I really wanted to make this topic sticky if possible.

There are many people out here who create a lot of posts asking about what kind of app are good and what do they do ?. There are dozens of videos on youtube on whats in your doc (most of which are outdated).

Honestly I think if people could share what software they have on their macs (both free and payed), with a description of what is does, would help thousands of new mac owners. I looked through the topic on the very top with software recommendations, but it does look a bit dull with only 13 replies that point you to websites where you get bombarded by the insane quantity of software listed there with no proper advice.

I will list my software tomorrow once I get my MBP from repair.

Thanks to anyone who participates here.
 
Cool, I am interested in what people have .. These are some applications I use often :

Web Browsing
- Chrome

Daily Planning/Etc
- iCal
- Things (paid)

Entertainment
- iTunes
- VLC Player
- Limewire

Backup
- Dropbox
- iBackup

Social Networking
- Adium (I use this for MSN)
- TweetDeck

- Microsoft Office
- jDownloader
- Transmission
- Adobe Photoshop CS4
- smcFanControl
- STARCRAFT 2 : D
 
my main applications are as follows:

Web Browsing
-Safari

Microsoft Office
-Microsoft Word
-Microsoft Entourage

Chat
-Skype
-aMSN

Music
-iTunes

Calendar
-iCal
 
Mine are:

Web Browsing:
-Firefox

Mail:
-Apple Mail

Adobe Creative Suite 5:
-Illustrator
-Dreamweaver
-Fireworks
-Flash
-Photoshop

Adobe:
-Coldfusion 9
-Coldfusion Builder

File Syncing:
-Dropbox

Maintenance:
-OnyX
-CleanApp

Window Management:
-BetterTouchTool

Social:
-Adium
-Skype
 
Adium
Adobe CS4 (Master Collection)
Adobe CS5 (Master Collection)
Age of Empires III
Akamai
aMSN
Aperture
AppCleaner
Automator
BetterTouchTool
Carbon Copy Cloner
Chess
Colloquy
Dashboard
Dropbox
DVD-soitin
Esikatselu
Facebook Notifications
Firefox
Flip4Mac
Front Row
GarageBand
Geekbench (64-bit)
Google Chrome
Google Earth
HandBrake
iCal
iChat
iDVD
iFreeMem
iMovie
iPhoto
iSerial Reader
iSquint
iSync
iTouch-Server
iTunes
iWeb
iWork '09
Järjestelmäasetukset
Kirjasinkirja
Kuvansiirtäjä
Laskin
Last.fm
Lisäohjelmat
Mail
Mercury Messenger
Microsoft Office 14
MPlayer OSX Extended
OnyX
Opera
Osoitekirja
Parallels
Parallels Desktop
Photo Booth
PleaseSleep
Plex
PS3 Media Server
Quicksilver
QuickTime Player
RipIt
Safari
Sanakirja
Skype
Spotify
Steam
SuperDocker
SuperDuper!
Tarralaput
TeamViewer
TechTool Deluxe
TeXturi
The Sims™ 3
Time Machine
Transmission
TV Row
UnRarX
uTorrent
VLC
Voddler
VoddlerPlayer
Voddlertray
Winclone
Windows Applications
Xbench

Some are in Finnish, my apologizes
 
Adium
Adobe CS3 (Design Standard)
AppCleaner
Automator
Caffeine
Carbon Copy Cloner
Chess
Dashboard
Dropbox
Firefox
Flip4Mac
Front Row
GarageBand
Google Chrome
Google Earth
iCal
iChat
iDVD
iMovie
iPhoto
iSync
iTunes
iWeb
iWork '09
Mail
Microsoft Office 2004
OnyX
Photo Booth
QuickTime Player
Safari
SuperDocker
TeamViewer
Time Machine
VLC
 
Applications I use everyday or very often:
Browsing
Safari

Work
Adobe CS5 Design Permium (Photoshop CS5, iD CS5, iA Cs5)

Entertainment
Chrome - YouTube
iTunes

Maintenance
Appcleaner
System Prefs

Social
Apple Mail
Palringo (MSN)
Twirl (tweeter)

Other (but very important)
Calibre (PDF converter to .ePub)
Use it a lot to convert my PDFs shook collections to be read on iBooks (iPad, iTouch)
 
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