Paul's Time Sink

19 Sep, 2004

On 43 Folders, there is a post that is collecting a list of essential OS X software. Here is my list:

• 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