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What are your essential programs?

-Modo
-Mari
-ZBrush
-Realflow
-Photoshop
-Corel Painter
-iDraw
-After Effects

I can get everything I need to do done with those ones (although they're not the only programs I use.)
 
Bartender
Living Earth Desktop
Fantastical
BetterTouchTool
f.lux
1password
Path Finder
ReadKit
Safari
iTunes
VLC
Office
Evernote
 
Adium - Free, multi IM
Angry IP Scanner - Free, IP scanner
BlueHarvest - Gets rid of all the Mac garbage files left on external and network drives
Caffeine - Free, menubar item to stop mac from sleeping
CheatSheet - Free, hold down command key in any app for 5 seconds to get an pop-up overlay of all shortcuts for that app
Chicken - Free, VNC client
ClamXav - Free, AV
Colloquy- Free, IRC client
Cyberduck - Free, FTP
DiskWave - Free, diskspace visualiser
Evernote - Free, notes
FileBot - Free, TV and movie file renamer
Google Drive
Growl - To redirect any legacy app notifications to OS X notifications.
HandBrake - Free, video encoder
Jettison - Eject drives before sleep and mount after sleep to avoid annoying warnings
MPlayerX - Free, media player
Mactracker - Free, database of every Apple device ever made.
Monolingual - Free, remove non-used languages from applications.
NameChanger - Free, bulk file renamer
OpenEmu.app - Free, by far the best emulator frontend
Pixelmator.app - For when photoshop is too much.
Sequel Pro - Free, awesome MySQL tool.
SuperDuper!.app - backups
Telephone.app - Free, full featured SIP phone with a very simple interface
TextMate.app - Free, Text editor
The Unarchiver - Free
Transmission.app - Free, the best torrent client
UninstallPKG.app - For clean removal of .pkg files
VMware
calibre.app
iFileX.app - Free, find those files that don't turn up in spotlight or finder.
 
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SlCKB0Y said:
This is not just unnecessary but its a bad idea (especially bad idea on Mavericks or above).
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who said it was bad? it's recommending of more than enough sites and yet to see anything bad about freeing up unused memory left when closing apps and processes
 
"OS X Mavericks and Yosemite use RAM much more efficiently than any other previous version of OS X. Mavericks and Yosemite now have a memory compression feature that will compress the memory occupied by applications that aren't being actively used and give the freed up RAM to the application that needs it the most. The result is a much more responsive system."
 
acctman said:
and yet to see anything bad about freeing up unused memory left when closing apps and processes
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Because when you close an app, it is left in buffers and cache so that if you reopen it, it does so much more quickly. These caches are not active memory so that if the system needs to use RAM occupied by these caches it is released to the active app. Before Mavericks this was sometimes not done that efficiently and so it could be argued that these types of apps had a place. From Mavericks on, all you are doing is slowing your system down and at worst interfering with the compression and memory management.
 
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SlCKB0Y said:
Because when you close an app, it is left in buffers and cache so that if you reopen it, it does so much more quickly. These caches are not active memory so that if the system needs to use RAM occupied by these caches it is released to the active app. Before Mavericks this was sometimes not done that efficiently and so it could be argued that these types of apps had a place. From Mavericks on, all you are doing is slowing your system down and at worst interfering with the compression.
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Not sure who told you that but my systems never experience any slow down. Only time my systems reboot is during an update. If I close a program i'm closing it for a reason not to sit around holding memory incase I reopen. If there is any difference in load speed when reopening an app its milliseconds that myself as a user does not notice. I'd rather apply that unused memory to running applications.

It does not harm your system its not different from users rebooting there computer because it's running slow. A Memory cleaner limits the need for that.
 
acctman said:
Not sure who told you that but my systems never experience any slow down. Only time my systems reboot is during an update. If I close a program i'm closing it for a reason not to sit around holding memory incase I reopen. If there is any difference in load speed when reopening an app its milliseconds that myself as a user does not notice. I'd rather apply that unused memory to running applications.

It does not harm your system its not different from users rebooting there computer because it's running slow. A Memory cleaner limits the need for that.
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🙄 The RAM being used in caches is not being withheld from running processes in any way. If a running application requires more RAM, the kernel will release some of the cached RAM for the process to access. But Ok buddy, you know better than the dozens of highly skilled computer scientists at Apple who designed the RAM management system.

BSD and Linux were also doing this kind of caching a long time before Apple was and those guys are all wrong too. Android has ben doing it for years and Google is wrong...

Carry on.

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acctman said:
Not sure who told you that but my systems never experience any slow down.
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Then why are you trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist on your system by using a solution (memory manager) which wouldn't work even if you did have a problem?

It would be just as effective to hang some new-age crystals around your computer to ward off the evil RAM spirits... actually, do that, because at least that solution has no chance of detrimentally affecting your system
 
SlCKB0Y said:
🙄 The RAM being used in caches is not being withheld from running processes in any way. If a running application requires more RAM, the kernel will release some of the cached RAM for the process to access. But Ok buddy, you know better than the dozens of highly skilled computer scientists at Apple who designed the RAM management system.

BSD and Linux were also doing this kind of caching a long time before Apple was and those guys are all wrong too. Android has ben doing it for years and Google is wrong...

Carry on.

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Then why are you trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist on your system by using a solution (memory manager) which wouldn't work even if you did have a problem?

It would be just as effective to hang some new-age crystals around your computer to ward off the evil RAM spirits... actually, do that, because at least that solution has no chance of detrimentally affecting your system
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i never said it was a problem, I'm just releasing and giving more RAM for active programs to use rather than a millisecond increase on a possible app reload. 🙄 no point in hijacking this thread its an app you don't have to install it
 
Safari/Chrome
Itunes
Quicktime
VLC
iSquint and Miro Video Converter
Mail
iPhotos
Amazon Music
Pages
Word
Handbrake
Textedit
Contacts
Messages

I have plenty of others that I often use, but those the ones I use most often
 
What are your essential programs?

Hazel
Keyboard Maestro
Shortcat app
SnappyApp
Yoink
Bookends
Alfred
XtraFinder
 
LouisLoh said:
Bartender
Living Earth Desktop
Fantastical
BetterTouchTool
f.lux
1password
Path Finder
ReadKit
Safari
iTunes
VLC
Office
Evernote
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Thanks for the recommendations. 🙂 I got the living Earth. nice! I put it on my iMac and laptop. Also use 1password.
 
4K Video Downloader - Youtube downloader
Caffeine
Calibre
Chrome
Dropbox
eSword (via Wineskin)
Google Drive
HandBrake - Free, video encoder
Keynote (iWork '09)
LibreOffice
NameChanger - Free, bulk file renamer
nvAlt - Notational Velocity clone
Pages (iWork '09)
Pixelmator - graphics editor
Plex - DLNA-compatible media server
SimpleMind - cross platform mind mapper
Subler - MP4 metadata tag editor
Tagr - MP3 metadata tag editor
Tincta - Text Editor
VLC
Oracle VM VirtualBox
 
Boom
Popcorn Time
Total Finder
BetterTouchTool
Transmission
MPlayerX
Leaf

There's also Flashlight, which is a new app in beta that adds tons of features to Spotlight. It's not one of my essentials yet, but it seems very promising and worth checking out.
 
Popclip
1Password
BetterTouchTool
Tweetbot
Reeder
Pixelmator
Adobe Audition
Guidance
Movist
Grids
Keep Everything
Dropshelf
Memory Free

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Safari, iPhoto, iMovie, iWork, Notes, Messeges, iTunes, Mail, Preview.
 
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Spotify
Airfoil
Transmission
Firefox
Flux
LastPass
VirtualBox
VLC
MenuMeters
MS Office 2011

+ several of the stock OS X apps.
 
Fantastical
PathFinder
Moom
TextExpander
Bartender
1Password
Tincta
Easy Remote Desktop
iD3 Editor - mp3 tag editor
iDentify - movie tag editor
 
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