What OS X Software Makes You Love Your Mac?

Growl - App notifications, Apple really should buy this and make it a standard part of OSX

Skitch - Fantastic app, already mentioned by others

Pixelmator - Lovely, simple, Photoshop type app

Espresso - Text editor

Flow - V nice FTP/SFTP client

And of course OSX Snow Leopard and all the bits and bobs it comes with by default
 
Terminal ;)
My favourite part of osx..... Or any *nix to be honest

Aperture
Less complicated than lightroom

USB Overdrive
Allows you to turn off mouse acceleration and bind mouse buttons to anything you like. A godsend for a pc convert like myself who uses a G500 and couldn't cope with the mouse acceleration in osx

iMovie
Just great. Easy to use and powerful.
 
iTunes: Excellent integration with the OS, easy to use, fast, simple transfer of songs from library to iPod/iPhone, huge store with constant new additions, the perfect piece of software in my opinion.

Safari: Quick, good pop up blocker and elegant.

Yesterday afternoon I was a bit bored so decided to install Windows 7 on my MacBook, a day later and I've deleted the partition. Windows is great for me on a PC, but on a Mac unless you have specific software that you NEED and can't find an OS X alternative (unlikely) then it's a waste of time.
 
Guys, anyone know why Skitch webpost is giving this error?

"There is a problem with the server connection.
Perhaps some settings have changed or are incorrect, or there might be a problem on the other end with the server" :)

Love this but it seems broken :(
 
There might be some settings that have changed, or there might be a problem on the other end with the server.

Just a guess mind. ;)
 
Bettertouchtool - take full control over magic mouse and trackpad gestures. Window Snapping
Flux - dim screen according to time of day
steermouse - adjust ur mouse
cyberduck - nice ssh sftp client . like winscp
NFOViewer - read .nfo files
CoRD - nice rdp client
Temperature Monitor - keep eye on temps
Xfolders - filemanager
Textwrangler - text editor supports ssh etc
BBedit - text editor
Unison - nntp reader
Stuffit - seems to be most compatible with all archives.
Xee - nice image viewer kinf of like Irfranview and can move through images in a directory
Little Snitch - best firewall app
Glims - addon for safari to add some fine tined control
 
so i have persian for my mac, however quicktime seems to struggle still with 720p MKV's. Considering i have the 2010 MBP i7 i wouldnt expect this. Im not too sure what to do
 
quickshot89 said:
so i have persian for my mac, however quicktime seems to struggle still with 720p MKV's. Considering i have the 2010 MBP i7 i wouldnt expect this. Im not too sure what to do
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I have 2010 i7 and VLC plays 720p / 1080p movies no problems. Quicktime kinds sucks - I can't even get it to play xvids with sound, even after installing the codec.
 
macpilot - http://www.koingosw.com/products/macpilot.php Scared of the terminal or can't be bothered to remember those commands to customize your system the way you want? MacPilot is your digital savior. Easily enable and disable hidden features in Mac OS X, optimize and repair your system, and perform numerous routine maintenance operations with the click of a button!

bbcIplayer Desktop - well self explanatory

Appzapper - http://www.appzapper.com/ Everybody loves the drag and drop nature of OS X. Drag an app into your applications folder, and it's installed. You'd think it would be that easy to delete an app — just a matter of dragging it to the trash. But it's not. Apps install support files on your computer that generate clutter. Introducing AppZapper. Simply drag one or more apps onto AppZapper. Then, watch as it finds the extra files and lets you delete them with one click.

coversutra - http://www.sophiestication.com/coversutra/ CoverSutra gives you a handy and attractive way to control iTunes without having to leave your current application.
See what's currently playing or enjoy your album artwork

dropbox - https://www.dropbox.com/ free online storage up to 2gb

d-vision3 - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8825/d-vision D-Vision is a GUI to encode Divx 3, Divx 4, Xvid and h264 with Mencoder.

videoglide http://www.echofx.com/videoglide.html mac software for my vcr video capture usb device

glims - http://www.machangout.com/ Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions, Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead ...)

Tidyup2 - http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com/TidyUp.html With Tidy Up! you can search for duplicate files and packages; by the owner application, content, type, creator, extension, time modified, time created, name, label, visibility and date/age. You can also search by the tag, duration and bit installments of MP3 and AAC sound files and EXIF metadata* , search the contents of the iPhoto, Aperture, iTunes, iPod databases and Mail mailboxes, and synchronize deletions with iPhoto, Mail and iTunes.
istatsmenu

lastfm - self explanatory , lets me scrobble from Spotify and Itunes

folx - http://mac.eltima.com/download-manager.html Folx - Downloader for Mac Free Internet Download Manager and your favourite Torrent client

iTubeX - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27604/itubex TubeX allows you to download videos (Flash, HTML5 and others), .mp3 and .swf files from almost every website as easily as possible. :) ;)

SongGenie - http://www.equinux.com/us/products/songgenie/index.html Does your music library need a face lift? Get the SongGenie treatment with titles, artists and lyrics. SongGenie identifies unknown titles, completes missing fields and helps you clean up your song info. You can even search the web for lyrics and apply them to your music

idefrag - http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php Every Mac user has noticed it; over time, your system slows down. This is particularly true in these days of constant security updates, as replacing operating system components not only increases file fragmentation, but also creates a more insidious problem—over time, the operating system itself ends up scattered all over your disk.

flip4mac - http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm Flip4Mac WMV Components allow you to import, export and play Windows Media video and audio files on your Mac. Flip4Mac WMV export components can be used with QuickTime Pro, Final Cut Pro, Compressor, and iMovie 06 (iMovie '08 and '09 not supported).

massive audio compressor - http://sourceforge.net/projects/massaudiocomp/ A massive audio compressor. It can be used to compress folders containing wave files among other files. The monkey's audio compression is performed thanks to the JMAC open source java library. Ideal to compress audio projects as Cubase projects.

tidysong - http://www.tidysongs.com/ TidySongs is an easy and powerful program that will fix any missing or misspelled song details, add album artwork, remove duplicate songs and organize your music.

songgenie2 - http://www.equinux.com/us/products/songgenie/index.html Does your music library need a face lift? Get the SongGenie treatment with titles, artists and lyrics. SongGenie identifies unknown titles, completes missing fields and helps you clean up your song info. You can even search the web for lyrics and apply them to your music

disk inventoryX - http://www.derlien.com/ Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps". If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question

cover scout3 - http://www.equinux.com/us/products/coverscout/index.html Don't let those gray gaps get you down...
Color the gray gaps in your iTunes library: CoverScout 3 helps you find missing cover art in your iTunes library with style. It's never been easier to complete your music collection: simply search, apply, edit and print.

1password - http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password 1Password can create strong, unique passwords for you, remember them, and restore them, all directly in your web browser. Also what i love about this is i was able to import my roborm data from my windows machine :)

iphone Explorer - http://www.macroplant.com/iphoneexplorer/ iPhone Explorer lets you use an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad as if it were in disk mode or a flash drive. iPhone Explorer is an iPhone browser for Mac & PC that lets you browse the files and folders on your iPhone as if it were a normal USB flash drive or pen drive. You can use the easy drag-and-drop methods to add or remove files and folders from the iPhone. Compatible with all iPhones and iPod Touches including the new iPhone 4 and iOS 4 firmware.

Steam - its steam for the mac nuff said

Spotify - spotify for the mac :)

growl - http://growl.info/ Growl lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen

kismac - http://trac.kismac-ng.org/ Welcome to the KisMAC wiki! KisMAC is an open-source and free sniffer/scanner application for Mac OS X. It has an advantage over MacStumbler / iStumbler / NetStumbler in that it uses monitor mode and passive scanning.
KisMAC supports several third party PCMCIA cards: Orinoco, PrismII, Cisco Aironet, Atheros and PrismGT. USB devices with Intersil Prism2, Ralink rt2570 and rt73, and Realtek rtl8187 chipsets are in progress towards full support as well. All of the internal AirPort hardware is supported for scanning.
Please note: This program is not intended for novices but for professional users. Take this as your warning, the rest of this wiki assumes you are prepared for advanced topics and know what you are doing with your system.

jbidwatcher - http://www.jbidwatcher.com/ A Java-based application allowing you to monitor auctions you're not part of, submit bids, snipe (bid at the last moment), and otherwise track your auction-site experience. It includes adult-auction management, MANY currencies (pound, dollar (US, Canada, Australian, and New Taiwanese) and euro, presently), drag-and-drop of auction URLs, an original, unique and powerful 'multisniping' feature, a relatively nice UI, and is known to work cleanly under Linux, Windows, Solaris, and MacOSX from the same binary

handbrake - http://handbrake.fr/ HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

TabExpose - http://cocoamug.com/tabexpose/index.html How much do you love Tabs ? Anyone who experienced Tab browsering could not imagine for one second having to go back to a single-page windows surfing.
How much do you love Apple Exposé - the feature that displays all open windows in a quick and clear way so you can access what you need in a snap?
TabExposé is a Safari add-on that enables you to view all open tabs in Safari the same way Exposé displays all open windows on your Desktop.

ShowDesktop - http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10005&vid=283130 Show Desktop is a small OS X application that will hide/show all apps and show the desktop when clicked on. It also offers several Finder options.

CosmoPod - http://cocoamug.com/cosmopod/ CosmoPod is a Safari add-on that helps you download and convert Flash, DivX, WMV and Real Media videos from the Internet to your Mac / iPod / iPhone / AppleTV automatically.
 
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LOL nice list but I can't be bothered to highlight them all and google them in order to find out if I'm even remotely interested in what they do. I know my loss.

OOI why have you got a defrag program on the list, I though OS X was above this? I have assumed that's what idefrag does :o

From a purely selfish POV it would be nice if each application was highlighted as payware/freeware too, or why one thought it was the best of its genre.
 
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