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- BrendanSheehan, on 01/07/2009, -14/+144I submitted a story about the Macworld keynote stream just when it went live yesterday, but it didn't get dugg as my name is not MrBabyMan. I was never vocal about this type of thing before, but I can now see how it's slowly destroying the community here on digg. One more reason why I have a Reddit tab always on the ready.
P.S. Paparazzi doesn't work under Leopard. - betzster, on 01/08/2009, -5/+47I don't see any of these being very useful. I guess I should write a list of applications that really are useful on the mac.
- chkdg8, on 01/08/2009, -7/+43Quicksilver= godlike powers.
- golhra, on 01/08/2009, -4/+36This is a nearly worthless list! Nearly ALL these programs are features in leopard.
- misterparry, on 01/08/2009, -8/+37i buried just because of babyman
- ZombieSociety, on 01/08/2009, -1/+19Please do. Then we'll all come and complain about it as if anyone cared.
- SRSco, on 01/08/2009, -12/+30Who actually looks at who submits something and cares? I digg Mr. Babyman...not because of his name, but because from time to time he submits something I like. I'm not a fan. Not a friend. I just digg what I like. I have a feeling you were slightly interested in this article too. You may not have dugg this, but you clicked through and commented on it. Unless you are a MrBabyman troll. (There are a lot of those.)
- bigbangbuddha, on 01/08/2009, -3/+20Nice list, did not know about a few of those.
I would add a few things though. I use these on a very regular basis, if your new to Mac check these out:
22. QuickSilver - best launcher ever!
23. Captain FTP - better than Cyberduck IMO, there is a free version as well as a payed upgrade
24. Growl - useful notifications system for apps
25. YouControl iTunes - menu bar control and display for itunes, very easy to use.
26. iStatPro - system monitor widget
27. Sing that iTune - widget that finds lyrics for current song and embeds it in the metadata
28. NeoOffice - open office for mac
29. Handbrake - great dvd ripper
30. Transmission - torrent util
31. SoundConverter - converts any audio file to any other kind (tons of formats)
32. Smultron - great php/html text editor
33. Battle for Wesnoth - turn based strategy game, very well done and lots of fun (its very old school though)
34. Adium - best text messenger client out there. It handles most major IM services but no video yet. - Falldog, on 01/08/2009, -1/+17"Backdrop is a simple utility to fill your screen with a giant blank window. Fill the window with a solid color or a custom image, your choice"
Can someone please fill me in on how this is absolutely useful? - Shaggy3, on 01/08/2009, -3/+19Nothing I can use, but dugg for not having the usual apps on it.
- nbx909, on 01/08/2009, -0/+12I like how the screen shot of Visual NetTools is the basic OS X installer. Come on!
- zTomer, on 01/08/2009, -6/+16actually its a list that i have never seen before...
useful! - mesarah, on 01/08/2009, -5/+14Agreed, it a useful list.
- theg90, on 01/08/2009, -2/+11Are these apps compatible with the upcoming MacBook Wheel?
- videodroner, on 01/08/2009, -3/+11I was surprised. This is actually a pretty cool list, and not another clone list with the same "essential" apps such as Quicksilver that we see over and over.
- notzak, on 01/08/2009, -2/+10Did they take a shot at quicksilver in the Namely description?
Honestly, if you can't spend the 35 seconds to learn how to press ctrl-space and start typing a program, then you probably shouldn't be using a keyboard. - SRSco, on 01/08/2009, -7/+15What does that have to do with 21 free apps for Mac?
- BrendanSheehan, on 01/08/2009, -3/+10Kevin Rose mentioned him in a few podcast episodes and the whole community ejaculated. This is one, if not the only reason why we know of this dude. Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against Babyface, but I am disappointed he dupes so much. He's really taken his 15 minutes and pissed all over it.
- HanSolo69, on 01/08/2009, -1/+8Backdrop? My Mac already comes with a screensaver feature.
- Atsumori, on 01/08/2009, -4/+11Who actually diggs Mr. BabyMan? I've never understood why he is so popular.
- SnowBladerX, on 01/08/2009, -0/+7agreed, I didn't find much on this list very useful at all.
- carbonfilament, on 01/08/2009, -2/+8decent list but many of these just repackage services built into the OS. I always like to use the apple stuff because
A) its built in
B) it will ALWAYS work (across updates etc)
C) keeps extra stuff off my hdd
D) Apple tech support
That said I'm gonna check a couple of these out. I wrote my own todo list program but maybe this one is better.
Learn to use OSX and keep your mac lean and mean! - carbonfilament, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6was thinking the same thing. Unless it can spread one image over many monitors (and the screenshot looked like this was an option) How is that different from setting your desktop background?
- dn11, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6My short list
Aquaemacs http://aquamacs.org/ (native aqua implementation of GNU Emacs)
HandBrake http://handbrake.fr/ ( DVD ripper/transcoder - also cross platform)
Perian http://perian.org/#download (swiss army codec pack for quicktime)
Soundflower http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower (advanced audio routing for recording skype conversations etc)
IStat Pro http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/ (awesome system monitor widget)
Grand Perspective http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ (detailed visualization of HDD use)
Dosbox http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1 (cross platform DOS emulator)
KisMac http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10133 (advanced wireless tool)
there's lots of others like VLC, Audacity etc... but they're well known and cross platform - enterneo, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6The list is lame, most of software provide functionality inbuilt into OS X
- JaredXM, on 01/08/2009, -1/+7I've never bought any software after I bought my Mac. Most were open source, all were free. I also never downloaded any illegally.
- raygunn, on 01/08/2009, -2/+721 Free Apps For Mac OS X That Are Absolutely Useful... For Making a List of Apps Nobody Wants Or Needs
- IvanB, on 01/08/2009, -10/+15Love those lists since I'm a new Mac user!:)
- RATabora, on 01/07/2009, -5/+10Dugg for not using the phrase "Must Have" and Name Mangler.
- dn11, on 01/08/2009, -0/+5I used to use transmission, but µTorrent is on Mac now, and it rocks!
http://mac.utorrent.com/ - JaredXM, on 01/08/2009, -2/+7After I bought my Mac I literally never paid for any applications. I didn't download any illegally either. All pretty much open source, all free. That's not to say I couldn't do it on a Windows machine either, I probably could.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4You must be talking about the version 0.5 beta which the developer says crashes on Leopard (http://derailer.org/paparazzi/).
0.4.3 is the latest stable version & works fine. - Epitaph, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4definitely. no one gives it a chance
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -3/+7I'm more critical of submissions if they're submitted by a power user, but I don't bury them for it. If this was another list of apps that have already been on the front page countless times before I would have buried it but most of these apps I had never heard of and are pretty cool little utilities.
And Paparazzi works fine for me on 10.5.6 - page2, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4Oh, that's how you do it? I must have spent only 34 seconds looking at Quicksilver before I gave up. Gotta check it out again...
- atticus8, on 01/08/2009, -0/+3I agree with your "***** digg" sentiment, but you have to take it to the next level, brother. Actions speak louder than words. If you truly want to deal digg a savage, terminal blow, probably the most destructive thing you can do is leave digg permanently for reddit. The suffering in the community would be grievous and incalculable, and, as the word spread that deevay was gone, digg membership would dwindle and fade away, as all light slowly but surely died out in the doomed kingdom of K. Rose.
The most important thing, though, is that you not look back and see the destruction that your absence causes, because that would totally reverse it all through cosmic mechanisms too complicated to explain here. Just be satisfied in your exile that digg will soon be kaput, thanks to your bold and decisive action that you should never reconsider. - JaredXM, on 01/08/2009, -2/+5I'd recommend this http://www.opensourcemac.org/
- FreddieD, on 01/08/2009, -1/+4http://digg.com/people/Old_Media_Interview_Amy_Ver ...
I'm going to go with "no". - dephalt, on 01/08/2009, -9/+12"That are Absolutely Useful"?
i suppose it's easy to confuse Useful with Useless.. - SwabTheDeck, on 01/08/2009, -2/+5Name Mangler is probably highly useful for certain people, but almost none of the other ones are useful.
Backdrop is for people with unrelenting ADHD.
Service Scrubber is for people who lack RAM (in which case, just go buy more. it's cheap.) and a repackage of the built-in shortcut changer in the OS preferences.
iClockr might be useful, but the description is so poor that I immediately lost interest.
Out of Mind is just another of a million to-do list apps, which you should probably manage on your phone or PDA instead of your computer, unless you don't really care about getting those things done.
Ever Save could be useful for the absent-minded, but then people would just get used to it being there and would forget to save their stuff if they ever worked on a computer without it.
SyncMate is probably the only other really useful one if you have the associated hardware.
Papparazzi doesn't seem to have a point when Grab comes built-in with the OS and captures more than just web pages.
AppFresh I would imagine only works with a very limited subset of programs since the authors would have to opt-in. Good idea, but probably won't ever become useful with the wide variety of restrictive software licenses that exist.
NetNewsWire is just another RSS reader. If you use Firefox, you already have 2 RSS readers on your Mac including Safari. I've heard this is one of the better ones, but who knows.
Pref Setter is a repackage of the plist editor that comes with the OS X dev tools. Also, don't be a pussy. Just use a text editor. A plist is just text.
Skim is a PDF reader + annotator. You already have a reader with Preview (and probably Acrobat) but if you really need to annotate, I suppose it might be useful.
Onyx is a repackage of the built-in Disk Utility, plus extra options to potentially ruin your filesystem or delete stuff that you may need later. Hard drive space is cheap, but recovering data isn't. Buy a bigger hard drive.
Witch is cmd + tab and cmd + ` for the incompetent.
CyberDuck might be decent. I use the command line or Fugu for FTP stuff, but have never had a need for webdav or S3.
Syrinx. Twitter. Must. Die.
Visual NetTools is probably a repackage of the unix network tools (ping, traceroute, host, etc.) that are already available in the terminal AND Apple's own repacking in the Applications/Utilities folder. This is a double repackage.
Deeper is something I've used before and the results tend to be buggy because it tends to enable features that Apple never fully developed, which is probably why they can't be enabled normally.
Burn duplicates the functionality of iTunes and Disk Utility.
Namely was made redundant in Leopard. Type cmd + space and the first few letters of the app you want and Spotlight will launch it. Apps are always the first result in Spotlight and require no additional key presses to activate. This could not be more efficient.
Punakea. Most people who want to tag things should probably just be using folders instead. Otherwise, things like media files have tagging already built in with iLife. - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -1/+4Well it works for me.
http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=paparazzi ... - techobo, on 01/08/2009, -0/+3I chuckled when I saw this one. I also have no idea what it's for. Don't forget, it's Absolutely Useful!
- lebondarken, on 01/08/2009, -0/+3For someone who seems to know what they are talking about I'm surprised you think Name Mangler is cool. The time it took you to type that bitch fit you could have read the apple script help file about fifty times.
- CraigReed, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2It's Adobe Air, I loathe Air apps give me a cocoa twitter app over tweet deck any day.
- shaggypaul, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2Dugg for AppFresh. Hadn't heard of that one and it's awesome.
- anthonyjhicks, on 01/08/2009, -2/+4I never look at the submitter of a digg story.. I couldn't care less. As long as the good stuff makes it to the top it doesn't matter. Too many fragile egos here..
- rumblestrut, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2Funny, I use Paparazzi tons and love it.
- umbrellainabin, on 01/10/2009, -0/+2that's MISTER BabyMan to you pal!
/thread - BrendanSheehan, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2*****, you know what? I just recalled I'm back on 10.5.5 - my bad!
- annjay, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2Correct
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