Your "must have" Mac apps


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I was reinstalling Windows 7 (moving from 32-bit to 64-bit) and realized, I have about 5-6 apps I feel like I NEED on any install of Windows, but I never played around with OS X enough to find more then 1, Adium. It got me wondering.

What apps are your "must have" apps for OS X that you feel you just cant work with out?

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you mean the one with out of date apps and some don't work right? Shiira alone is almost a year out of date unless they have started back up.

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I'll bite. :)

Must haves are mostly obvious in this crowd, but...

Firefox

Then...

Postbox (for email, I have many many accounts)

Tweetdeck (for my twitters.)

Quicksilver (Awesome tool - hard to explain)

Devonthink (for my many many notes I live by now)

Woopra (My web site tracker program I use)

Appcleaner (It helps uninstall where dragging to the trash doesn't clean, it does)

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you mean the one with out of date apps and some don't work right? Shiira alone is almost a year out of date unless they have started back up.

Which links are dead? Shiira's latest build was March 2009.

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Which links are dead? Shiira's latest build was March 2009.

I was referring to the apps not working right, last time I had looked at Shiira it was nearly a year out of date.

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I was referring to the apps not working right, last time I had looked at Shiira it was nearly a year out of date.

Which apps don't work right? I'll remove them if they don't. It just takes a visit to Shiira's home page to see that the dev is still working on it.

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Well when I had last looked the last build was from jan 08, so I had assumed it was over with.

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Well when I had last looked the last build was from jan 08, so I had assumed it was over with.

Candybar, ffmpegX, Max, Quicksilver, NetNewsWire all haven't been updated in a year/two or so. Doesn't necessarily mean that they're not useful or don't work right.

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Here's mine:

1. Multiplicity.

2. Google Chrome

3. Jing

4. Windows Live Writer

5. iTunes.

6. Impulse

7. Steam

8. MS Office

9. Live Mesh

10. Skype

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Here's mine:

1. Multiplicity.

2. Google Chrome

3. Jing

4. Windows Live Writer

5. iTunes.

6. Impulse

7. Steam

8. MS Office

9. Live Mesh

10. Skype

mac thread...

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Adium

Transmission

iTunes

Aperture

Transmit

Safari

Quicktunes - allows control of iTunes w/ keyboard short cuts while in any application

Kinda it...

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Which links are dead? Shiira's latest build was March 2009.

Oh wow, that project is still alive? Is the browser's bookmarks less useless now?

Anyways for me:

Postbox

Firefox

Adium

Transmission

Anything Adobe

Anything Final Cut

iWork

VMware is nice too

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everytime i set up a new system, i need to have the following:

- Safari

- iTunes

- Mail

- Adium

- Last.fm

- make sure DropBox is installed

- Pages

- Transmission

- Photoshop

- Things

i tend to like apple software most of the time. while they are installed by default, i figured id post them anyways.

however, its not that much i really need to install everytime.

and then there of course is the usual documents/music/movies-folder restore. ;)

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Adobe CS4 Suite

Garageband

Amadeus

Final Cut Studio

Colors

Tranmission

iTunes

Safari

Komodo Edit (The freeware equivalent to Coda)

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Adium

Burn.app

Skype

Linkinus

VLC

Transmission

iWork

Smultron

VirtualBox

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I always make sure I have:

- Firefox

- Xcode

- Microsoft Messenger

- Transmission

- VLC

- Textmate

- Appviz

actually add Dropbox to that, I started using it again recently :p (I was using it during the beta but I stopped because of the low storage capacity, now I use it to keep my source code in sync between my computer and netbook)

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