essential software for mac

eurotrotter

please post links to essential software for macs
il start it off:

vlc - the business!
one stop shop for all your dvd needs

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14738

K.O.Kiki

Just check my iusethis: http://osx.iusethis.com/user/kikimaru

spidermonkey

mac the ripper
rip dvd to hdd

dvd2one
compress and create an image from your ripped files,
and burn the image using disk utility

firefox
duhhh

isquint
convert your downloaded FLV files from youtube to usable mpegs

senuti
take music off your/friends ipod

aurora
mac sleep alarm clock using itunes

there the free-ish apps that i use daily/nightly

Hugh_C

eurotrotter wrote:

il start it off:

Are you one of the txt genurashun?

Gauge

Quicksilver- an app launcher that lets you open up anything from a url to a playlist in just a few keypresses- I'm addicted.

Coconut Flavo- some dinky little wireless/battery/info utilities.

SnapnDrag- Screen cap utility.

Breezer

All of the following are free or open source (except Remote Buddy which costs €10 if you buy it now, and will be €20 once the final version is released soon), and I use them pretty much every day.

Firefox optimized for your Mac - proper Aqua form widgets and a speed boost for Firefox. Couple this with a Grapple skin and you'll never miss Safari. For the extremely pedantic (yes, I'm one of them), there are extensions that replace the individual stop/reload buttons with a single one and show a web page's loading progress in the address bar, available from the Mozilla site.

AppDelete - since Apple's drag and drop installation method is second to none, but unfortunately their uninstallation method leaves a lot to be desired.

Adium - connects to many IM protocols (including MSN); a lot more flexible than iChat or Messenger for Mac; unfortunately it has no AV support.

Skype - internet telephony and video phone

NeoOffice - I had problems with earlier versions but the latest 2.1 release seems to have solved them all. It's faster and looks prettier too. Currently the only Mac office suite to support Microsoft Office 07 file formats.

Azureus - clunky, ugly, but the only BitTorrent client for Mac that supports selective downloading (download only specified files from torrents containing many)

Remote Buddy - hugely enhances the functionality of the Apple Remote (and many other remotes apparently, although I haven't tried any others). Allows you to control your Mac from across the room by emulating the mouse with the remote, and has a seperate mode for many common Mac programs such as NeoOffice (e.g. control presentations), iTunes (switch songs, rate songs, etc.) and VLC, to name but a few. Currently available as an RC2 release, it offers a 60 day, fully functioning free trial.

Google Desktop - not essential, but I dislike Spotlight and Quicksilver sent my heatsink and fans into overdrive when I tried to index the whole hard drive. So I use Quicksilver for everything in my Home folder and Google Desktop for everything else.

Ukelele - create your own customised keyboard layouts. Great if you're using an external Windows keyboard with your Macbook or Mac Mini.

Uno - for those that dislike the inconsistencies in the Aqua GUI (or, like me, just hate the brushed metal look).

Rebeller

Little snitch. The free demo version stops running after 3 hours but all you have to do is go into system prefs and restart it. It's amazing how many apps phone home. Download here

I bet all you macheads thought only billy "the kid" gates was spying on you. Steve "dirty mac" jobs is up to the same thing:D

spidermonkey

i use salling clicker too on my soy ericsson to use it as a bluetooth remote for various apps

eurotrotter

anyone know where il get unzipping software?
thanks
ed

trout

eurotrotter wrote:

anyone know where il get unzipping software?
thanks
ed

Stuffit is your friend ... and it costs freepence

read about it -> http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/index.html

download it -> http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/download.html

Rollo Tamasi

Can this thread be made a sticky please?
Opera - Web Browser
Flock - Web Browser
Thunderbird - Email Client
Filezilla (Beta) - FTP Client

Rollo Tamasi

trout wrote:

Stuffit is your friend ... and it costs freepence

Does anyone know of an alternative to Stuffit? I don't like it one bit.

Azureus - Torrent App
Tomato Torrent - Torrent App

Sad Professor

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

Does anyone know of an alternative to Stuffit? I don't like it one bit.

It's not really needed that much anymore now that osx has it's own unzipping program built in. I can't remember the last time I used it.

babypink

Azureus - Torrent App
Tomato Torrent - Torrent App

Transmission

K.O.Kiki

Breezer wrote:

Uno - for those that dislike the inconsistencies in the Aqua GUI (or, like me, just hate the brushed metal look).

I like this very much!
...except I probably shouldn't have chosen green as my highlighting colour

steppen

Informative thread, can it be stickified?

K.O.Kiki

steppen wrote:

Informative thread, can it be stickified?

No.

Rollo Tamasi

There doesn't seem to be an active mod on the Mac forum, is there?

This thread really should be stickied as it's a question that's going to keep popping up. Plus the other Mac stickies are dated and not really providing any great source of information.

hupyago

heres some more resources:



http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/

http://www.opensourcemac.org/

http://www.pure-mac.com

I use them regulary ,great variety

Type 17

Menu Meters - freeware utility that lives in the menu bar, enabling you to keep an eye on the CPU occupancy, HD space, RAM usage, Network throughput (any or all of them) - brilliant for those "is this Mac hanging, or is it just busy?"/"Is my 'net connection slowing, or is this just a big file?" moments. And doesn't take up much CPU itself.

http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/