February 3, 2007

So you bought a new Mac

Seeing as Mac’s are popular and alot of my friend’s and family are making the switch, I figured it was about time to publish my own list of essential OSX software.

Firefox for OSX

iChat for video conferencing

iSync for keeping my mobile phone and contact list sync’d

Address Book – throw your vcards in there and you are off to the races

iTunes – duh

Sentuni – backup your files from your iPod back to your Mac. Always helpful in a disaster situation

iPhoto – keep all your images in there and upload the best ones to Flickr

Handbrake – media transcoder extraordinaire

CyberDuck – for all your FTP needs

Text Wrangler – multi-feature text editor

BBedit – for your HTML-ing needs

App Zapper – the ultimate in unistalling for OSX

Flickr Uploadr – get your images onto Flickr with very little effort

CoreDuo Temp – monitor your system temperature and processor load

OnyX – all the Unix maintenance tool you need with a simple UI

iStumbler – Wifi sniffer of choice

Flip4Mac – enables WMV playback via Quicktime

CSSEdit – super efficient CSS editor that works well with BBEdit

DivX – you need the plugin for Quicktime so you can watch your movies

ImageWell – for those quick image edits

OmniGraffle Pro – it’s like Visio without the crappy parts

Xee – browse a massive folder of images in no time with Xee

ecto – feed your blog from your desktop

Parallels – the current king of OSX virtualization

Tomato Torrent – Bit Torrent client

Quicksilver – makes working with files, apps, etc. easier and more efficient

Xcode – for all your coding and compiling needs

SuperDuper – backing up was never so easy

MAMP – All in one package for installing OSX versions of Apache2, MySQL, and PHP.

Locomotive – Once you have MAMP installed you may as well install Locomotive and get with the Ruby On Rails crowd.

Snapz – One of the easiest ways to make screencap movies and demos.

This list is by no means complete and will continue to grow. Since most of the best apps for OSX are open source, make sure to keep an eye on OpenSourceMac too.

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