19 Sep, 2004
Essential Mac OS X Software
- Firefox - The best browser IMHO
- NewsFire - Great RSS reader
- Apple Mail
- Little Snitch - Firewall for outbound connections
- LaunchBar 4 - Great application launcher
- Quicksilver - another application launcher
- GeekTool - Tool to display information on the desktop or in floating windows. Here is my post that has some screen shots of how I use this.
- Synergy - Preference Pane that displays a floating window with current track information from iTunes. Also this will allow key commands for controlling iTunes.
- MacGPG - Mac UI interface for gpg security tools
- Application Enhancer - Tool to allow ape's to modify behavior of Applications
- TiVo Desktop - Application to allow viewing and playing photos and music from iPhoto and iTunes on a TiVo
- synergy - Tool to allow two or more computers to use the same keyboard and mouse. Also this will allow the clipboard to be shared across computers. This is a cross platform tool, I use it to use the keyboard and mouse on my linux workstation at work with my laptop
- SubEthaEdit - Great text editor for Mac OS X, with rendezvous support for collaborative editing
- Alfred - Application that will install different types of modules (Screen savers, browser extensions, ...)
- MenuMeters - Menu Additions that display disk, memory, network and CPU usage in the menu bar
- uControl - Preference Pane to remap control keys, and make the track pad behave like a scroll wheel
- Chicken of the VNC - Great VNC client
- Speed Download - Download client
- iPhotoToGallery - export photos from iPhoto directly to Gallery
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