Essential OSX Applications?

Andy C · 7 Jun 2006 at 02:44

AppZapper

MacOS makes installing apps simple, but what about uninstalling? Sure you can drag the apps icon to the trash, but many times there are various add-on files and preferences left behind.

Well now you can drag & drop an apps icon onto AppZapper and it will quickly find all related files giving you the option to delete them also.

Very handy if you want to try lots of apps, but don't want to be left with hundreds of old files.

Andy.

Matt · 8 Jun 2006 at 14:44

http://harnly.net/software/letterbox/

That's a plugin for Apple Mail to make it use a column layout rather than rows, which is a LOT better for widescreen displays

Burbleflop · 9 Jun 2006 at 10:59

Any suggestions for a decent terminal program? I'm currently using iTerm but I'd like something a bit more like SecureCRT which I use on the PC.

The ability to save sessions (including passwords) is quite important because I'm a lazy so and so.

spirit · 9 Jun 2006 at 11:06

Burbleflop said:
Any suggestions for a decent terminal program? I'm currently using iTerm but I'd like something a bit more like SecureCRT which I use on the PC.

The ability to save sessions (including passwords) is quite important because I'm a lazy so and so.

maybe putty

donno if that unix link will work for you.. (i only browse this forum cause im so close to buying a macbook)
i use it on windows, its pretty good.

whatever · 10 Jun 2006 at 23:48

any suggestion for software to sort out picture files? iphoto is good, but not as handy as windows explorer to sort out files before the actual editing.

Mat · 12 Jun 2006 at 10:07

When you say sort out, do you mean pick which ones you want to edit? You can do that from within the Finder by setting the picture folder to include the thumb and then set the icon to whatever size you want to get a decent view of it.

punky_munky · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:33

whatever said:
any suggestion for software to sort out picture files? iphoto is good, but not as handy as windows explorer to sort out files before the actual editing.

You can do a little bit of editing in iPhoto, alternatively you can drag images form iPhoto onto your image editor on the dock. Chocoflop is a good free (at the moment) editor which uses the core image filters for some cool effects.

AJUK · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:38

punky_munky

Is that Chocoflop any good? I have been looking for a good photo editing app but cannot justify the dosh for Photoshop. iPhoto is great for general tidying up and organising photos but I really need something a little more powerful.

Any other suggestions?

punky_munky · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:46

AJUK said:
punky_munky

Is that Chocoflop any good? I have been looking for a good photo editing app but cannot justify the dosh for Photoshop. iPhoto is great for general tidying up and organising photos but I really need something a little more powerful.

Any other suggestions?

I haven't spent a great amount of time with it, I'll probably use it exclusively this week and see how I get on. It doesn't seem great for high resolution stuff, e.g. 8 megapixel photos but for more reasonable sized things (eg non professional) and web graphics it seems pretty sound. It's got a nice enough interface which is similar to Photoshop but it doesn't have nearly as many features. It might be comparible to Elements but I would know seeing as I haven't tried it. I'll report back more in a few days after extensive testing.

Mark JB · 12 Jun 2006 at 11:48

The GIMP is your friend.

http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

AJUK · 12 Jun 2006 at 12:01

Installing GIMP is a bit messy on OS X though.

punky_munky · 12 Jun 2006 at 12:01

X11

*shudders*

AJUK · 12 Jun 2006 at 12:06

punky_munky said:
X11

*shudders*

Exactly.

uchuff · 12 Jun 2006 at 12:11

There's also GimpShop - a mod of The Gimp to make it a bit more photoshoppy to use - unsure if it's Universal or not.

Captain-Fungi · 12 Jun 2006 at 12:45

uchuff said:
There's also GimpShop - a mod of The Gimp to make it a bit more photoshoppy to use - unsure if it's Universal or not.

I just installed this, needed X11 to work correctly.

whatever · 12 Jun 2006 at 14:23

have you guys tried LETTERBOX_0.16 ?
it lets you use vertical view in MAIL! perfect if you use a widescreen (e.g. powerbooks... or imac 20")

stuppy · 30 Jun 2006 at 18:46

Thread bumpage!

Can anyone recommend me some good compression software (other then Stuffit) that is free? One that opens as much stuff as WinRAR does, and with a similar interface if possible??

artaxerxes · 2 Jul 2006 at 09:18

UnRarX - http://www.unrarx.com/

and for the thread

coconutBattery - more than you ever wanted to knwo about your battery

Delocalizer - recover disk space used in printer drivers and foreign localisations, gigs worth of HDD space in a standard OS X install.

DivFix - recover damaged/partially downloaded avi files into watcheable form.

Firestarter - burn .iso and .cue files

Handbrake - DVD ripper/compressor.

Another shout for OnyX - cleans and tidies caches, logs, and allows for many little tweaks to the Mac OS X experience.

R - great little maths package- akin to MATLAB.

Rember - memtest86 for macs. Very handy when you suspect you have dodgy ram!

SMARTReporter - HDD health indicator for the paranoid.

WhatSize - see what is hogging your disk space. Great for finding stray 2 gig log files!

YuBurner - free burning software.

Moredhel · 2 Jul 2006 at 10:52

Burbleflop said:
Any suggestions for a decent terminal program? I'm currently using iTerm but I'd like something a bit more like SecureCRT which I use on the PC.

The ability to save sessions (including passwords) is quite important because I'm a lazy so and so.

What's wrong with the included Terminal.app? And if you used SSH keys you wouldn't need to know passwords.

Burbleflop · 2 Jul 2006 at 11:14

Moredhel said:
What's wrong with the included Terminal.app? And if you used SSH keys you wouldn't need to know passwords.

I just don't like the bundled terminal program. As for keys, I do use them but I've not seen many Cisco routers or firewalls that work with key authentication hence the need for passwords.