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Must Have Applications 2011

sioannou

sioannou

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Mar 25, 2010
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As I am waiting my new mac, I would like to help me to make a new list with all those little applications that we all need and love and make our lives easier :D

I am starting the list with
1. Stuffit Expander​
 
2. Caffeine

3. Little Snitch

4. iStat Menu
 
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1. The Unarchiver (instead of Stuffit Expander)

5. MPlayerX

6. Dropbox
 
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7. 1Password
17. Archiver
18. Alfred
19. Evernote
20. Things
21. The Tager
22. Toast 10 Titanium
 
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9. TigerLaunch

10. Carbon Copy Cloner
 
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Please do not make consecutive posts.

Do not post one app per post, rather combine your apps into one post.
 
23. EasyFind
24. Quicksilver
25. Adium
26. LimeChat
27. Transmission
28. jDownloader
29. atMonitor
30. TextWrangler
31. Gmail Notifr
32. TrashMe
33. Vox
34. Onyx
35. Gimp
36. Chromium
37. MagicPrefs
38. VirtualBox
 
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39. Perian
40. Things
41. MindNode/MindNode Pro
42. AppZapper
43. Reeder
44. xPad
45. Library Books
46. CalendarBar
 
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Curio

Curio - an app that has completely changed they way I work, simply amazing.
 
________ Used as Needed
51. XLD: X Loss Decoder http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23430/x-lossless-decoder
…… Free. Droplet to convert my mp3 ringtones to wav format, for Mac alert sounds.

52. Desklet: Mac App Store
……… Near free. Change your wallpaper, in a heartbeat.

53. Droffet: http://www.limit-point.com/Utilities/Droffett.html
……… $10 for a slew of utilities in addition to this one, which lives only to flatten directories. Excellent for changing iTunes' gazillion subfolders deal to a flat one folder holding all music tunes. Other very helpful apps by this dev = QuitApps, LaunchOnTime, IPSentineStatus.

________ Used Daily
54. PandoCalendar: http://www.pandacorner.com/PandaSystems/PandoCalendar.html
……. Free. Smallish desktop month-view calendar, only.

55. Trillian: Mac App Store
…….. Free. Most conveniant way to chat and see wall / Facebook. Also good for keeping an eye on multiple Twitter accounts.

56. TagIt: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30228/tagit
…….. Free. Lives in dock, for drag & drop ease. Plays nice with DevonThink Pro Office, GraphicConverter & anything else I’ve used to date. Free.

57. Arq: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/
…….. $29. Hands-off backups, with versioning, to Amazon’s S3 servers. (DropBox, which I adore, is for syncing, NOT backups!) $5/month for 50gigs storage, plus nominal fees for bandwidth. That last part kept me away, out of ignorance. Now that I’ve used it, I see that it remains the cheapest yet best deal in town for RELIABLE backups. (Google competition for the woes encountered a crutch time.)

58. Choosy: http://www.choosyosx.com/
…….. $12. The best bargain on the planet, if you flit back and forth among FireFox, Chrome, OmniWeb, Safari and other browsers. This one is my most frequently used app on any given day, as it works with any and all live URLs, no matter which app contains it-- provided you have helper app Choosy set as your default browser.

59. Hazel: http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php
…….. $21.95. Insanely helpful for automating dang near anything. Kinda like Folder Actions, on steroids.

60. Anxiety: http://www.anxietyapp.com/
…….. Free. While I rely heavily on OmniFocus for task management/planning, I use this app to keep a nice compact listing on view.
 
All are free, many if not all are Open Source

Keka Good file archiver/unarchiver app. (Stuffit Expander is dreadful.)

AppCleaner Helpful app remover.

TCPBlock Outbound firewall (bit like a free version of LittleSnitch). Very simple and doesn't nag.

Cocoa Packet Analyzer very nice packet analyzer. So you can see what all those apps that TCPBlock spotted are phoning home about !

Vienna Open Source RSS news reader.

atMonitor Extended feature Activity Monitor.

OnyX Good maintainance and tweaks. Poor documentation though. This tutorial should help.

OxED Nice simple Hexeditor.

Checksum Very simple but handy checksum app
 
Is their an app that removes apps and files completely? If so what is the best one?
 
Ocean Sea said:
AppCleaner Helpful app remover.
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Bischoff said:
Is their an app that removes apps and files completely? If so what is the best one?
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RebeccaL said:
I use Appcleaner (freeware): http://www.freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/
There is also AppZapper:http://www.appzapper.com/
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AppZapper, AppCleaner, CleanApp, TrashMe, and similar apps do not do a thorough job of removing all files/folders related to deleted apps. I tested several of these, using Skype as the app to be removed. Of 17 items to be removed:
AppZapper missed 13 items
AppCleaner missed 11 items
AppDelete missed 8 items
Hazel missed 9 items​
I also tested AppTrap, CleanMyMac and a few others, but don't recall how many items they missed. All left files/folders behind. In most cases, they remove .plist files and a few others, but leave behind much larger files and folders. (you will find a discussion of these tests in the thread linked below)

One app that I would not recommend, based on the number of complaints that have been posted in this forum and elsewhere, is CleanMyMac. As an example: CleanMyMac cleaned too much

The only effective method for complete app removal is manual deletion:
 
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