- Firefox: it should be obvious, but just in case it wasn't (but check out Flock below first)
- Adium: universal IM client. Yahoo, AIM, MSN, Facebook, Myspace, whatever, it has support for it
- Audacity: sound recorder and converter
- CoconutBattery: if you've got a MacBook, gives you detailed information about your battery's lifespan
- Cyberduck: if you do FTP work, this is essential
- Flip4Mac: plays WMV video in QuickTime Player
- Flock: Firefox on steroids for social networking site users. Built in tools for YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Facebook, Blogger, Twitter, and many more. I use it instead of Firefox.
- HandBrake: DVD ripper extraordinaire.
- MPEG Streamclip: convert video to a number of formats. Particularly useful for converting videos to iPod-friendly formats
- OpenOffice.org: free alternative to Microsoft Office which can read and write Microsoft's formats
- Perian: adds more video codecs to QuickTime Player (e.g. natively play .flv Flash video)
- Smultron: advanced text editor for coders
- The Unarchiver: OS X can unzip zipfiles but doesn't recognize other formats like .rar or .7z or many, many others.
- UnRarX: more sophisticated .rar decoder, can unpack .rars that the Unarchiver can't
- Transmission: fast, lightweight BitTorrent client
- VLC: excellent media player for playing media formats other players can't. Also plays ShoutCast internet radio stations from around the world
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Suggested apps for new Mac owners
So, you bought a new Mac and you're wondering what Apple left out. Here's my suggested list of things to add:
iPod touch
My better half suggested I get one of these as a PDA with benefits. So far I've been impressed with the following:
Other gripes:
safari won't upload files, so no starting threads on imageboards
-- Post From My iPod touch
- Opening powerpoint presentations from web
- Dailymotion video working without flash
- Bundled web fonts
- Shrooms app for carb/nutrition database
- Blogpress app
- Comicszeal app
- Mail being out of box compatible with work email (Exchange) and my webmail (Gmail, Yahoo)
Other gripes:
safari won't upload files, so no starting threads on imageboards
-- Post From My iPod touch
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