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What is your favorite app?

Definitely QUICKSILVER for me- that's the one app that I use the most. At first I thought it was pointless, but then I started to really use and appreciate it and now I can't live without it.

I also very much like:
Handbrake
Seashore
Senuti
SMC Fan control
 
"Sweet" Mac Apps

Post your favorite 3rd party Mac application including widgets.


Mine are:
GimmeSomeTune and The Chuck Norris Fact widget

[Moderator note: threads merged]
 
i reckon sizzlingkeys4iTunes is the best iTunes add-on there is.

Adium is much better than Messenger for Mac, but it still needs some improvements ie AV support

iSquint is a great program as well. Converts pretty much everything to MP4
 
Although I don't use it, Xtorrent is an amazing app. ;)

Quicksilver = Amazing
Adium = The best
Google Earth, Google Sketchup = Fun
QuickShareIt = Useful
ClearDock = Beautiful

Those are just some.
 
there might be countless thread on this already but what the heck!

my favorites:
- Quicksilver
- Adium
- Skype (best for A/V chats with Windows people)
- GimmeSomeTune
- iStat Pro
 
Quicksilver (free launcher. Life is pointless without it :) )
NeoOffice (free Office alternative)
Scroll Switcher (changes scroll arrows; e.g., puts double scroll arrows top and bottom. Another freebie.)

dukebound85 said:
you do know we have a gazillion related threads about this right lol
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True, but it was asked by a newcomer and will be useful for other newcomers who didn't see the previous threads. I say forgive him/her. :)
 
Transmission = Torrents, Awesome, Free, Nice Features, Light
Cabos = Great alt. to Limewire
Synergy = Itunes Controls in menubar
Adium = Better than iChat
SRS iwow = Improves sound of itunes
PearLyrics = Get lyrics for the song in itunes
 
Audio Hijack Pro, Azureus, Civil Netizen, ffmpegX, Fission, HandBrake, Image Tricks, Nicecast, Pacifist, Renamer4Mac, Toast Titanium, Transmit, Virtual II, VisualHub, VLC, Zoom

Just a few apps I keep coming back to.

Also I have to mention Microsoft Office once it is native it will be on my favourite list.

No one has mentioned any games so I didn't know if I was meant to but if I was Warcraft III and World of Warcraft jump to the top of the list. With Kitty Spangles Solitaire, WingNuts 2, Pac the Man X, PuzzlePoker, and KrossWordz getting a lot of my time after the 2 Warcraft games.
 
Delicious Library

Recently I've been obsessively using "Delicious" Library. This program has really entertained the organizational-side of me which comes out of hiding every so often.

Living in Japan, my boyfriend and I, have been building a fairly large library of movies and tv shows. Before getting "Delicious" we were constantly forgetting what we had. So with very little effort and only a few hours I catalogued every single DVD and/or movie file we have. Finding the DVD information is very easy with a direct connection to Amazon.

Our library is up to 241 entries and growing daily. Soon I'm going to number the actual DVD's and add that number to the library which will make finding the physical DVD even faster.

One side benefit that has come is that we are able to find shows that we both want to watch much faster.

Anyone else having fun using "Delicious" library?
 
Well, since we're spamming ;)

I wrote a blogpost (direct link) about the 5 apps that make and 5 apps that break my Mac-experience. My perspective is one of which apps fit the mac-philosophy of simplicity and elegance the most (and the least) and allow me to be most productive at a given thing. Hope you enjoy.

Link removed as my webserver was crashing. Anyway the five apps were: Quicksilver (the world at your fingertips), dictionary (well, I never had a universal spellchecker before), scrivener (great app for writers), transmit (simple FTP-client), and Apple Mail (just does the one thing well). With runner's up: voodoopad, adium X, textexpander, and some others.

Bad apps were: Microsoft Office (too cluttered), Finder (obvious), Spotlight (no metasearch), iPhoto (bad with large amounts of pics), and Safari (outdated).
 
If I had to pick a single app (besides Safari for browsing MR) it would be Keynote. I give lots of presentations, and I can't imagine going back to Powerpoint now.
 
Logic Studio pays the bills
Finale 2007 (upgrading soon) for writing music.
iCal keeps my life on track (and syncs with my iPhone)
Digital Performer will be paying the bills later on
 
Slingbox + Slingplayer for Mac - no need to buy a new teevee!
Delicious Library
Circus Ponies Notebook
Coda & Transmit
Candy Bar & Pixadex

Looking forward to improvements of core apps in Leopard - it looks like Mail/Address Book/iCal will do more of what I want them to do...

Also just got iLife & iWork '08 - so far so good, but I guess it's too soon to call them favorites!
 
A good one I've just found is iStat menu, it's just like the istat pro widget, but puts everything in your menu bar, as well as making improvements on the clock/calendar in the menu bar.
 
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