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What Mac software can you not live without?
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∆· iTunes
∆· Quartz Composer
∆· Text Edit
∆· Terminal
∆· Safari
∆· Preview
∆· Mail
∆· Inkscape
∆· Adium
∆· CyberDuck
∆· Quartz Composer
∆· Text Edit
∆· Terminal
∆· Safari
∆· Preview
∆· Inkscape
∆· Adium
∆· CyberDuck
SteerMouse.
I like to have my tracking sensitivity really high and also have the side buttons on my mighty mouse set to "back" and the middle button set to "open in new window"
And I guess Safari but that is a given.
I like to have my tracking sensitivity really high and also have the side buttons on my mighty mouse set to "back" and the middle button set to "open in new window"
And I guess Safari but that is a given.
Surprisingly, there are only two I use on a daily basis: Safari and Adium. I need iTunes solely as a means to put music on my iPod. Oh VLC is kinda important too.
Safari
iTunes
iPhoto
iMovie(not the new one!)
iDVD
Mail
Pages
Quicken (have not yet found a good alternative - looking for suggestions though)
That's about all I ever really use. At least on a regular basis.
iTunes
iPhoto
iMovie(not the new one!)
iDVD
Pages
Quicken (have not yet found a good alternative - looking for suggestions though)
That's about all I ever really use. At least on a regular basis.
Thanks for the tip
. Looks very good indeed. I'm having a look at that as well as OmniPlan and the two together along with the iCal and Mail integration is a pretty powerful combination. It is just a shame I don't have an iPhone as well .
Here's my list:
Spaces (I use this *constantly* throughout the day - dashboard and expose, not really very much at all.)
Firefox (Really wanted to like Camino, but it's just not as extensible and doesn't have the plugins I use for Firefox)
Thunderbird
Photoshop CS3
Lightroom
Yahoo Messenger (all my friends are here, and it has more features than Adium)
VLC (plays nearly every format that I use, I don't even need Flip4mac. I use this instead of iTunes as well)
Acquisition
Smultron (awesome editor)
Chicken of the VLC (to remotely control my Linux box)
Terminal (I drop into my tcsh pretty often)
Ableton Live 6 (Garageband slows to a crawl when I try to use my Toneport)
Gearbox (software-based guitar/bass amp)
-Bryan
Spaces (I use this *constantly* throughout the day - dashboard and expose, not really very much at all.)
Firefox (Really wanted to like Camino, but it's just not as extensible and doesn't have the plugins I use for Firefox)
Thunderbird
Photoshop CS3
Lightroom
Yahoo Messenger (all my friends are here, and it has more features than Adium)
VLC (plays nearly every format that I use, I don't even need Flip4mac. I use this instead of iTunes as well)
Acquisition
Smultron (awesome editor)
Chicken of the VLC (to remotely control my Linux box)
Terminal (I drop into my tcsh pretty often)
Ableton Live 6 (Garageband slows to a crawl when I try to use my Toneport)
Gearbox (software-based guitar/bass amp)
-Bryan
Camino (Gecko-based browser) - Also use Safari, but am partial to Camino as my main browser.
TextWrangler (text editor) - Does it for all my coding needs; good interface, fast multi-file find and replace, built-in grep, syntax coding for a bunch of languages, and it's free.
CSSEdit (CSS editor/live preview) - Only started using it last week when I got it as part of that MacHeist bundle, but WOW is this a time saver--it's already saved me several hours of work and frustration, and it's oh-so-pretty to boot. Can't believe I wasn't using it before.
Interarchy (FTP and more) - Longtime user, but its best features are lightning fast mirroring of only changed files (can compare 2700 files for changes in under 10 seconds), and you can live edit a file on the server (upload automatically on every save) in TextWrangler via a right-click option.
iMovie HD (NOT 08) - All that and a bag of chips.
iPhoto
And, when I'm doing anything with newsgroups, Thoth (awesome in many ways for binary-centric newsgroups, but sadly no longer sold--holding onto my license as long as it will run).
TextWrangler (text editor) - Does it for all my coding needs; good interface, fast multi-file find and replace, built-in grep, syntax coding for a bunch of languages, and it's free.
CSSEdit (CSS editor/live preview) - Only started using it last week when I got it as part of that MacHeist bundle, but WOW is this a time saver--it's already saved me several hours of work and frustration, and it's oh-so-pretty to boot. Can't believe I wasn't using it before.
Interarchy (FTP and more) - Longtime user, but its best features are lightning fast mirroring of only changed files (can compare 2700 files for changes in under 10 seconds), and you can live edit a file on the server (upload automatically on every save) in TextWrangler via a right-click option.
iMovie HD (NOT 08) - All that and a bag of chips.
iPhoto
And, when I'm doing anything with newsgroups, Thoth (awesome in many ways for binary-centric newsgroups, but sadly no longer sold--holding onto my license as long as it will run).
This is what I use:
- Adium
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- Azureus
- Perian + Front Row: to get FR to play formats not handled natively by Quicktime
- iTunes: manage my music
- Cog: preview songs/one hit wonders before adding them to iTunes
- iStrip: webcomic viewer/aggregator/offline cache
- Smultron: text editor
- Exposé & Spaces: window management, can't live without this!
- Terminal.app
I'm still deciding over NeoOffice or sticking with Office 2004. Main consideration here is Word's Reviewing+Track changes and Excel macros.
- Adium
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- Azureus
- Perian + Front Row: to get FR to play formats not handled natively by Quicktime
- iTunes: manage my music
- Cog: preview songs/one hit wonders before adding them to iTunes
- iStrip: webcomic viewer/aggregator/offline cache
- Smultron: text editor
- Exposé & Spaces: window management, can't live without this!
- Terminal.app
I'm still deciding over NeoOffice or sticking with Office 2004. Main consideration here is Word's Reviewing+Track changes and Excel macros.
Schoolhouse
This is the best software ever to organize my school assignments. Without it I would hand everything in late and miss assignments altogether. This has gotten me through my past 2 years of school!
This is the best software ever to organize my school assignments. Without it I would hand everything in late and miss assignments altogether. This has gotten me through my past 2 years of school!