What third-party Mac apps do you use?

[Roderick Usher]

We all know that Apple makes some very elegant first-party solutions, but third-party software is at least as important to the Mac platform. So I'm curious to know what A-list, third-party Mac apps everyone here uses - titles like Photoshop, MATLAB, Maya, Quicken, MS Office, Quark, Avid Xpress, Pro Tools, etc.

 

[snakesqzns]

The only big ticket item I use is Photoshop. I'd get more but I can't afford it.

 

[epochblue]

PS and Office. Beyond that, a lot of shareware

 

[odinsride]

PS and Office. Beyond that, a lot of shareware

I'm a new mac user since last week and so far I would highly recommend Quicksilver + plugins ... google it, it's not easy to explain what it does...but it's soooo useful.


Also -

UnRarX - for opening RARs
Mplayer & VLC - for opening videos
Flip4Mac - for playing wmv files and WM streams in safari
Inquisitor - plugin for safari that makes the search box act like spotlight
MenuMeters - adds CPU/ram usage meters to your menulet area
Growl - a notification system that integrates with many popular apps

 

[1020]

Photoshop, MS Office, QuarkXpress and lots of shareware/freeware + AppFresh to keep track of updates

 

[Cromulent]

Well the ones I have on my dock are as follows:

NeoOffice
Gimpshop
Blender
Textwrangler
Cyberduck
ffmpegX
Vienna
Toast 8
Max
Handbrake
Mac the Ripper
VLC
Unison
Acquisition
Xtorrent
Adium

I couldn't be bothered to see what other apps I have, but these are the ones I use most often.

 

[Queso]

Glancing across my Dock, I have

MS-Office v.X, OmniGraffle Pro, Photoshop 7, Rapidweaver, Skype, Microsoft Messenger, Camino, EyeTV, Civ IV, Football Manager 2007, and Folding@Home. I've also got Toast and a whole bunch of open-source stuff that runs in X11.

 

[NickD]

There's a ton, but here are a few:

Quicksilver
Adium
Growl
Twitterific
Vienna
Camino
Photoshop CS2
MS Office
Thunderbird
Limewire

And the list goes on and on . . .

 

[Trogloxene]

Word/Excel
Director
Dreamweaver
Freehand
Photoshop
National Geographic Topo

And a bunch of utilities...

-T

 

[BlackDan]

A-list 3rd party: not sure if it's considered A-list to you guys but I use:
Parallels and transmit, both our best-in-class, so IMO they do belong in this category
A-list Apple: Apple remote desktop 3.1

 

[nick004]

NeoOffice (MS ain't coming near my Mac)
Adium
VLC
Teamspeex
Transmission
Firefox

That's the my most popular non-Apple apps I guess(Open source FTW!)

 

[Stratification]

CandyBar, Adium, Flex, and Adobe CS3. So far anyhow, I've only had the thing a couple of weeks now

 

[Nicolasdec]

IAlertU, Open office, Adium, Cyberduck, Nvu, Studio 8

 

[Angrist]

Quicksilver
Adium
Firefox
VLC
mplayer
Handbrake
Textmate
Temperature Monitor
Desktop Manager
Photoshop
LaTeX
WoW
MATLAB

I'm sure there are a couple more I can't think of off the top of my head.