Favourite OS X applications 2009
Recently I updated to the Snow Leopard, but I decided for a clean install (of course, again the last one).
I saved a list of all installed applications
ls -1 /Applications/ > my_apps.txt
in order not to forget what I used last week :) ..and here are the favourite ones:
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Caffeine, as a tiny coffee cup in the menu bar, keeps your Mac awake – no screen savers, screen dimming or sleeping – very useful during presentations, e.g. photos. |
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Adium, an instant messaging application for Jabber, ICQ and many others. Easy to use, configurable, perfect. |
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Skype, well known messaging and calling application. |
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Unarchiver, opens various archives, but also supports password protected ones (not supported in the default Archive Utility). |
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Quicksilver is an application similar to Spotlight, but with (different) useful features. |
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iTerm a terminal with advanced features – my favourite one is the automatic text copy by selecting it. Yeah, I miss two clipboards from Linux. |
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Growl is not an application that would be used directly. Rather I would call it a library that provides an unified and not intrusive way to show notifications of other applications. |
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iSync support for Nokia phones – if you own a Nokia mobile phone and would like to synchronise its content with your Mac (and other devices such as iPod). |
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MacPorts is a system that makes much easier to install open-source applications. I use it for managing command line tools (e.g. jhead) or my Ruby environment. |
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AppCleaner for uninstalling applications. |
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glims is a set of interesting features and improvements for Safari. |
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OpenOffice, a bundle of office application – word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, etc. |
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Transmission. Torrents? Transmission! |
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VLC is a lighter, easy to use, stops-on-space and many comfortable features.. video (and audio) player. |
Enjoy :)