Here’s a list of my mac OSX software must haves and a few hacks I’ve got for annoying things. MAC360 have a must have list too.
- How to run two instances of skype concurrently.
- Free – Must have software
- Free – Interesting software
- Paid for – Must have software
- Paid for – Interesting software
Free – must have
- Chrome (my current favourite browser) – www.google.com/chrome
- Firefox – http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html
- Skype – http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/macosx/
- Evernote (Essential for me now!) – www.evernote.com
- DropBox – http://www.dropbox.com/
- TinketTool – http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html
- Chicken of VNC – http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/
- Unison (command line, multiOS file sync) – http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
- Aquamacs – http://aquamacs.org
- Spotify (not in Australia) – http://www.spotify.com/
- Tweetdec – http://www.tweetdeck.com/
- Bibdesk (manage .bib files) – http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
- Moodblast – http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25769/moodblast
- Spanning Sync – http://spanningsync.com/
- Texshop – http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/
- Adobe PDF Reader – http://get.adobe.com/reader/
- Air Share – http://lifehacker.com/5047136/air-sharing-transfers-files-between-iphones-and-any-system
- CarbonCopy (brilliant disk imaging) – http://www.bombich.com/
- QuickSilver (serious geek) – http://www.blacktree.com/
- DropCopy – http://10base-t.com/macintosh-software/dropcopy/
- CyberDuck (ftp)- http://cyberduck.ch/
Free – interesting
- eMaps – https://sites.google.com/site/emanuelet/emaps
- Freemind – http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
- Picassa – http://picasa.google.com/mac/
- Remember – http://lightheadsw.com/remember/#introduction
- Buddi – http://buddi.digitalcave.ca/download.jsp
- Adium – http://adium.im/
Paid for – must have
- 1password (Essential) – https://agilebits.com/onepassword
- Things (Brilliant ToDo that syncs with iPhone and iPad) – http://culturedcode.com/things/
- Growl – http://growl.info/
- clocks (brill travel clock) – http://www.studiodalton.com/clocks/
- SallingClicker (don’t use anymore but was an avid fan) – http://www.salling.com/Clicker/mac/
Paid for – interesting
- Omnigraffle – http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/OmniGraffle/
- Hazel – http://www.noodlesoft.com/features.php