Must Have Applications For Mac OSX Users
December 29th, 2008 | 
Author: Being a more of a Windows based user, it is a rarity that I’m covering any MAC stuffs at all on my blog.
Not to undermine any MAC OsX users out there but it’s actually rare that that you see any users carrying a MACBook instead of a Windows based laptop.
Anyway, this is special MAC edition post that I’ve made today and I hope it will be useful for my MAC OsX visitors of this blog. This is a post on the “must have” and ”good-to-have” applications for those who have MAC OsX on their laptops.
Do note that all the applications I have written below are all available free for download and use.
Let’s get started :-
- SketchBOX - This neat application allows you to insert notes to your desktop …. call it a “Note Manager”
- Tudos - This is a dock expansion for you to store all of your applications.
- iClockr - A project and tasks management application.
- OnyX/Deeper - This is utility tool that will maintain, optimize and personalize your MAC OsX.
- EverSave - The tool that saves your work during crashes.
- Burn - A burining application for MAC OSX.
- AppCleaner - A small application that allows you to throughly uninstall your unwanted applications.
- Carbon Copy Cloner - A cloning, backup up and synchornize tool for your files.
- SpotLook - A GUI for your desktop search.
- Photobook - Facebook photo browser for MAC OsX.
- FMenu - Facebook evenmt notifier.
- TwitterPod - Twitter client for MAC OsX.
- Adium - Universal Internet Messaging Application
- Cooloquy - Internet Chat Client.
- NeoOffice - Office suite for MAC OsX
- Thunderbird - E-mail application
- Vienna - RSS/Atom Newsreader
- Skim - PDF Reader and Note -Taker.
- iStumbler - Utility to detect Wi-Fi signals.
- Classic FTP - An easy to use FTP client
- Firefox 3 - Web browser.
- Camino - Web browser.
- Opera - Web browser.
- Audacity - Sound and audio editing software.
- QLab - Control audio, video and MIDI
- Ultramixer - Professional DJ Software
- SimpleSynth - Plug in your MIDI keyboard and play.
- VLC Media Player - Multimedia player
- Real Player - Real player for MAC OsX.
- Jing - Captures images and records video.
- Frame By Frame - Stop motion movie creation application.
- Sweet Home 3D - Interior design application software.
- Blender - 3D content creator software.
- GIMP - A photoshop alternative and image editor.
- 7zX - Compression archiever.
- UnRarX - Uncompressed RAR files.
- Perian - Adds all popular video formats for Quicktime.
- Handbrake - DVD to Mpeg-4 converter
- Senuti - Transfer iPod songs back to your iMac or MacBook.
This is the list that I can think of at the moment. If you have better suggestions … drop a comment on to this post and share it on this blog.
Hope this lists is sufficient for your needs …. till next post ….
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Great list man. Will take time to try all of them
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