What Are You Running Right Now?

[stridey]

I'm always surprised when I look over a fellow Mac user's shoulder at what apps sit open at any given time, so I thought I'd look for a cross-section of what apps happen to be open at this very moment. I'll start off:

Adium
iCal
Address Book
Mail
Synergy Advance
Camino
iTunes
Preview
TextEdit
Terminal (running F@H)
Dashboard
Quicksilver
DragThing
Konfabulator
Cee Pee You
SideNote
Edit: Oh yeah, and Finder.

What apps do you have open?

 

[robbieduncan]

From left to right (in my Dock non-running apps skipped)

Finder
Dashboard
iSync
Address Book
iCal
iPhoto
iTunes
Mail
Safari (using latest CVS webkit)
XCode
Terminal
Activity Monitor
QuickTime
Plist Editor

 

[Lacero]

 

[primalman]

the dishwasher

 

[Makosuke]

I just had to respond to this post since by coincidence I had a mess of random software open as a result of working on a relief map and a web project simultaneously:

Finder
Activity Monitor
Terminal
Mail
Safari
Camino
TextWrangler
TextEdit
Preview
QuickTime Player
BorkPad
Graphic Converter
Interarchy
Bryce
iPhoto
Azureus (Java)
JUMP (Java - GIS program)
Photoshop 5.5 (Classic)
MacDEM (Classic - GIS program)

...plus Stuffit Expander popping up every once in a while to decompress something.

It's good to have a couple gigs of RAM (though when opening 500 megapixel satelite images, that doesn't seem like nearly enough).

 

[zelmo]

Finder
Dashboard
Backstage Pilot
Backstage Monitor
Mail
Safari
Newsfire
iTunes
Delicious Library
Filemaker Pro
Acrobat Pro
InDesign
Illustrator
Folding@Home
Chicken of the VNC

 

[ham_man]

Finder
Dashboard
iTunes
Safari

 

[atari1356]

Finder
Safari
Mail

Not doing a whole lot at the moment.

 

[Cuckoo]

Finder
Dashboard
Safari
Mail
iTunes
Adium

 

[eva01]

Finder
Safari
Mail

Not doing a whole lot at the moment.

same with me

 

[wordmunger]

Finder
Safari
Mail

Ditto. Just finished playing a game -- I usually shut down everything to play. Now I should probably open up MS Word and get to work.

 

[crap freakboy]

Finder
Mail
Safari
A bath
Out of patience because my daughter won't fall asleep

 

[Jaffa Cake]

Just Finder and Safari. All I need at the moment.

 

[quackattack]

Wow, some of you guys are running alot!

I'm simple right now, not doing much.

Finder
Firefox
Entourage
iTunes

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Just Finder and Safari. All I need at the moment.

Me too. All I need right now is Finder and Safari.

 

[fistful]

Finder
Safari
Adium (but not signed in)
Mail
PhotoShop CS
iTunes
Quicksilver

 

[wtmcgee]

 

[Furrybeagle]

Finder
Dashboard
Safari
Adium
Mail
Address Book
iCal
iTunes
iPhoto
TextEdit
Script Editor
Terminal
SETI@home
Photoshop CS2

I need more ram. 512 isn't enough.

 

[bodeh6]

I am planning on getting a 12" PB w/512MB. The price to go to 768MB is $68 from Apple and $63 from Crucial. Do you guys think that going to 768 MB is noticable? I will be doing regular stuff on the PB.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Finder
Dock
Dashboard
iTunes
Safari
Mail
Classic
Meteorologist
XRG
Spotlight

 

[Nermal]

Wow, some of you guys are running alot!

I'm simple right now, not doing much.

Finder
Firefox
Entourage
iTunes

The thing with OS X is that you can leave apps running without much (any?) performance loss. I'm not using half the apps I have open.

Finder, Mail, Safari, MSN, iChat, Skype, Download Wizard, iTunes, QuickTime, RealPlayer, TextEdit, Terminal, Preview.

 

[ITASOR]

Finder
Dashboard
Mail
Safari
iChat
Address Book
Adium X
iTunes
Cyberduck
NVU
Netscape Composer
Textedit
Photoshop CS
Imageready CS
Word 2004

All with actual windows open. I usually just have Finder, Dashboard, Mail, Safari, and iChat open, but I'm working on a website.

 

[WildCowboy]

Finder
Eudora
Safari
Word
Excel
Acrobat
Palm Desktop
iTunes
IE

 

[echeck]

Finder
Mail
Safari
iTunes
PhotoShop
Illustrator
Final Cut Pro
MSN
Skype

Those apps I generally leave open all the time, I just happen to be using nearly all of them at the moment.

 

[stridey]

IE

Why, oh why, would you ever want to do something like that? *ewww*