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- lo0ol, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17It's a decent list, but I wish more of these lists would add QuickSilver.
http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
A Mac, to me, is not a Mac without it. Even though it's a fairly nerdy thing to say, it's changed my computing lifestyle. - frem001, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I am getting tired of these blog lists, they are all pretty much the same
- itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Well, since the site seems to be down let me recommend to you my "must haves":
1) VLC - QuicktTime alternative, get it here: http://videolan.org
2) Adium - iChat alternative, get it here: http://adiumx.com
3) Virtue - Virtual Desktops manager, get it here: http://virtuedesktops.info
And for the developers:
4) TextMate - best source code editor on any platform, get it here: http://macromates.com - tapo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Server is going crazy, so the list is below:
I wrote a little earlier on how I have been switching over to my Mac mini, now a few weeks later I have jumped on the band wagon and decided to share my must-have mac apps.
Top Ten Favorite Mac Apps
1. Adium X - You will never get tired of hearing the the duck when someone signs on and off, Adium is a great solution for running multiple instant message clients into one. I use Trillian for the PC and Adium is my Mac solution for AIM, MSN and GTalk.
2. NetNewsWire - RSS is all the rave and getting a good reader is a must, if you are using a Mac there is no better solution than NetNewsWire to get your news.
3. Firefox - Safari is pretty weak when it comes to web browsing, and I tested Camino for a while, but found that Firefox still reigns supreme no matter what the OS.
4. OpenOffice - I%u2019ve been using mostly all free software for my Mac and decided to not support Microsoft and use an open source text editing software bundle. OpenOffice runs on the X11 software, and is the perfect bundle for an office suite.
5. GimpShop - Continuing with the Open Source style I decided to get a free image editing program for my Mac. GimpShop gives me all the features I need for editing images and is a great app that runs well with OS X.
6. CyberDuck - Paul Stamatiou recommended CyberDuck in his article on Mac Apps that it is the best free FTP solution. He was right%u2026CyberDuck gives you everything you need for an FTP solution.
7. Flickr Uploadr - A pretty basic program provided this is essential for all Flickr users, I like the Mac set up more than the windows solution, either way it works perfectly with Flickr.
8. Gmail Notifier - Since I am not a big fan of any mail clients, I simply use GMail%u2019s notifier to get me my webmail.
9. Handbrake - The perfect free app for DVD back up ripping, Handbrake will rip any DVD and save it in a nice compressed .MP4 file, which is ready to go for your iPod. A great app for any video content seeker and for those seeking %u201Cback ups.%u201D
10. Azureus - Everyone needs a Bittorrent client and why not use, what I consider to be, the best. Azureus is very easy to use and I highly recommend it for the Mac.
Alright, switching to my Mac has been easy, I have really enjoyed doing it and now feel that everything is in place. I hope you enjoy my favorite Mac Apps and use them to their fullest. - esoteric0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6i got tired of the adium duck in about the first 3 minutes and turned it off. it's kind of annoying.
i second the quicksilver guy above. i love the command line-ish interface, and never having to move my hand to the mouse to open an app or find a document. it totally rules my world.
i tried butler, as someone else suggested, but i think it serves a different need than quicksilver. quicksilver suits me fine, so i'll stick with that. - fahrvergnuugen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Safari is weak?? I develop websites and web based applications for a living (and have been doing so for 7 years now). I can say that Safari is definitely NOT weak...
- gunnmjk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7If you just switched over to mac, how would you know what the BEST free mac apps are? Also, can this constitute as an "Already been posted?" There are probably several "Best mac app" posts with nearly identical programs listed.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I like you. Seashore is great, and Camino owns the world.
- theantidote, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Quicksilver is a given so they may as well not include it on the list.
I also don't like using OpenOffice (although I do) because it's not cocoa-y. Supposidly they'll fix that soon though by dropping X11 on the Mac. - ronaldpoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yet one more app... AppZaper, delete your apps and all its related files safely...
- stukdog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5http://www.freemacware.com is the place to be for Mac Freeware
- alx1507, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3definetly Camino > Firefox even tho I prefer Safari.
and
Tomato torrent > Azuerus. - tapo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Now to comment on his list, and do something I've never done before (reply to my comment) I'd like to say that Quicksilver is damn essential. Also, Transmission is a very good bittorrent client when you'd like something more maclike and lightweight.
Gmail + Growl is a plugin for Gmail notifier to use the awesome Growl notification framework. Growl is probably installed on your system if you're using an up-to-date version of Adium, but isn't enabled by default. Growl is hard to explain, but it's fantastic, almost as useful as Quicksilver once you've figured it out.
The WMV player for Quicktime is available from Microsoft's website, and is more necessary then great. It's buggy and WMV sucks, but it lets you play videos that are WMV only.
Finally, OpenOffice is such a pain to use on the Mac. NeoOffice is a port of OpenOffice 1.1 (support for 2.0 coming soon) to use some native Mac widgets. There is almost no reason to use OpenOffice under X11, unless you really, really need OpenOffice 2. It's just that much better. - Qdub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2#3 = Camino > Firefox
#11 = iSquint - MiloMindrbindr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That won't work to upload to an ftp server unless youre using webdav, the finder ftp doesn't support uploads for any other type. A huge blunder on Apple's part as far as I'm concerned.
- vannyx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6why and how did this get to the front page. I love when i see new things onthe frontpage but this. Come on. I expect my post to be burried anyway.
- Marfanity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Everything's free if you steal it. In that case, let's put Maya, Photoshop, & After Effects on the list.
- marksy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i agree lo0ol... its the best :)
- aoe2bug, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3(@jk_baller23) People like links, if you want someone to look at something, then give them a link. Like this:
http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=butler - ophello, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Would someone please tell me why Firefox is better than Safari? Other than "Safari sucks"? I have yet to hear a convincing argument. Is it more stable or something?
- TheRealStyro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3levin84: Neither OpenOffice or NeoOffice have official releases for the new Intel based Macs.
It is odd that this list is for people switching to Mac, and the list includes at least one item that supposedly will not work on the new Intel based Macs. Probably should have been mentioned before/in the list. - icabod540, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is a lite version that is free.
- Brutusfly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For occasional FTP you really don't need anything other than the Mac's "Go" menu (or just hit Command+K). If you need write access to the FTP server you just type the address in this format:
ftp://user_name:password@domain_name - ctishman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Has this writer actually ever _used_ OpenOffice for OS X?
If liquid pain in the form of a UI exists, it is to be found in the bloodied clutches of the OpenOffice X developer team. - zezak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2iCal Events widget should be on there.
http://www.benkazez.com/icalevents/ - MiloMindrbindr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3if you like Seashore, give Chocoflop a try, I much prefer it over SS.
http://www.chocoflop.com/screenshots/
I also prefer Camino as well (but it would suck pretty bad without CamiTools)
Textpander has become an absolute essential on my mac as well. Too bad it got bought by another company and is going shareware, but you can still download the freeware version until a new v. is released.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19147
(read the comments on that page for a huge list of auto-corrections in zip format)
An awesome site for mac freeware, that puts this guy's paltry list to shame is:
http://www.freemacware.com/ - ahdustin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is the same list as usual. I am a big mac fan, but these lists are literally the same with minor substitutions. Plus this has been on digg thousands of times. At least make them so it has creative software on there you haven't heard of, like: http://digg.com/apple/Great_Unknown_Mac_Apps_-_Part_1 .
- arhida, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Camino is better then FireFox any day of the week. Only a novice Mac user would prefer FireFox, since they wouldn't understand the subtleties that make a Mac app what it is.
- cwestpha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2my list:
Adium (IM)
AppZapper (uninstall utility that was free on macZOT)
Colloquy (IRC)
DiggUpdate (for digg whores)
HandBreak
MPlayer OSX and VLC (between these and QT you can run anything)
Senuti (iTunes in reverse, literaly)
Transmission - ub3rgeek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3wow the digg effect allready?
edit: just looked at the list on duggmirror and well... the list sucks. I have seen many many more compleate lists that have graced the front page of digg. no digg - levin84, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There is also NeoOffice that has the goal to "provide an entirely free and complete Mac OS X office suite based on the international OpenOffice.org project—only with the look-and-feel you'd expect from any Macintosh application."
http://www.neooffice.org/ - wpholmes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I disagree with some of that list that list
Camino > Firefox
Seashore > GimpShop - DuckFOO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I must be a real geek because I enjoy reading lists like this. I would love to see a big Digg posting asking Digg users what OS they are using and their top ten applications are.
- solarix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I am glad to see listed an alternative to iChat. I use Trillian on my Windows box and have been looking for something else for my Mac that is similar.
I am sorry though, when I see one of these lists I expect to see applications, that I don't currently use on my Windows PC. 4 out of the 10 I use in Windows, so I would naturally look to see if there was a Mac version available (Gmail Notifier, Firefox, OpenOffice, Azureus) If I was switching, I would like to be told about a Mac only alternative or hopefully some stuff I haven't heard of, Gmail Notifier? That's just a little lame IMHO - eross77, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2An excellent list that I have been recommending is http://www.opensourcemac.org/
- ophello, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4What is your problem?
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.duggmirror.com/apple/The_best_free_Mac_Apps/
- icabod540, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Transmit isn't free and this list is a free list.
- d00d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good god, someone please make these lists stop. They're all the same for all intents and purposes. They're not newsworthy. They're not interesting. Let's just stop.
- Flump5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if u hate them so much why did u search for them?
- daneyuleb, on 06/24/2008, -0/+1Blurry text. Safari Windows has tons of security problems. And Safari Windows is slooow. It doesn't handle a lot of CSS pages well. Is known for buggy java script implentation. No plugins. It doesn't handle ftp well at all. Tends to rename downloaded files with no preferences to alter that behavior. Has very little in the way of configurable options. Spaces in certain downloadable files and url names don't work with it. Clicking a downloadable file, it will try to interpret what to do--I had a link to a tif file for downloading that was of a very specific format, and due to the tif extension Safari gave no option but to try to open it, no download option. Often tries to launch files across the internet rather than offer to download them to disk. Gives no feedback when it's downloading a file (easy to instigate multiple downloads of the same file since you click,nothing happens, so you click again--crappy download manager launches behind browser window). Tell it to stop loading a page just as the page finishes, and it reloads the page.
- Faasnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I believe you can change the souds in Adium (I do agree that the numerous quacks are not the greatest). Also, you can change the icons, including the Dock icon.
- Universal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.FreeSMUG.org
Also includes portable apps for Mac. - The_Decryptor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"the finder ftp doesn't support uploads for any other type."
Man, that explains a lot (e.g. why shares are always read only, no matter how i auth), thanks. - mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I use an old iBook just good enough to run Tiger, and although that list didn't help me at all, there were some great things in the comments, like quicksilver.
- The_Decryptor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Would someone please tell me why Firefox is better than Safari? Other than "Safari sucks"? I have yet to hear a convincing argument. Is it more stable or something?"
Only thing that stands out to me is Extensions, on average Firefox (and Camino) is slower than Safari (since they use QuickDraw while Safari uses Quartz, and Quartz is faster than QuickDraw) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I've used quicksilver and it would probably be number 11...its in my dock, but just didn't make the top 10
- lowfatsourcreme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, Quicksilver is amazing. I barely use the Finder anymore -- Spotlight and Quicksilver have it all at my fingertips. And I know it can do a lot more than I use it for...
- lowfatsourcreme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0feel of a Mac app???
Much more so than OpenOffice, but to be honest, it looks like Win 98. - lowfatsourcreme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why is it in your dock? Just keep it always on and use key commands...and Dockless.
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