Your ABSOLUTE essential Mac apps.

[Atari]

Hi folks,

Just wondering what everyone's absolutely essential Mac apps are. On my Windows machine, I've got a list of programs which I consider essential to get the most of Windows.

Not too sure as to an OS X list, the OS itself comes with pretty much all the apps I need, but what about you folks?

For me, I'd say my essential apps are:

UnRAR X
Transmit
Microsoft Messenger (MS REALLY need to release a Live Messenger version of this)
iSquint - solely as it pwns my Windows machine when it comes to ripping video for my iPod
iLinkPod - not really essential, but definately handy for moving music to the MacBook after a reinstall
VLC - Plays everything I need.
Firefox - I find it better than Safari, but doesn't feel as good as its Windows counterpart.


So, what about you fellow Mac lovers?

 

[28ten]

Toast - dvd/cd burning
flip4mac - playing wmv files

 

[Matt]

Adium, Colloquy, Growl, BluePhoneElite, Vienna, there's a few to start with

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Please check the FAQ.. the list in there was meant for this purpose

 

[Hamish]

TextWrangler - Programming file editor
VLC - Media Player
Adium
Azureus - Torrent Downloader

 

[[OZ]]

Unison
Lightroom
Split & Concat

 

[Clarkey]

You know mozilla recently released Camino for OSX,

Camino® is a Web browser optimized for Mac OS X with a Cocoa user interface, and powerful Gecko layout engine. It's the simple, secure, and fast browser for Mac OS X.

 

[Jet]

Adium
Alarm Clock
AppZapper
BitRocket
Cha-Ching
Cyberduck
Quicksilver
Growl
skEdit
Xslimmer
PTHPasteboard
teleport

Not all essential but nevermind. Although I have VLC I wouldn't recommend it on the mac, it's terrible. Mine crashes all the time. I prefer Quicktime with all the codecs installed and and AppleScript for fullscreen mode.

 

[MagSafe]

Photoshop & Safari.

 

[V For Vendetta]

1Passwd

 

[DeeJay-Mo]

Burn

 

[Will_3rd]

Audio Hijack and Handbrake great for recording streaming media & ripping dvd's respectively.

Oh and Steermouse

Btw V For Vendetta your sig is two lines too big

 

[Darryn]

Aperture
Lightroom
Photoshop CS3
VLC
Fetch
Crossover
EyeTV
Firefox
iTunes
Toast 8

 

[Messiah Khan]

Final Cut Pro
IDVD

Because thats all I use the Macs for at work.

 

[Jest3r]

darwinports
adium
quicksilver
mercury (another msn client but supports cam)
Text Wrangler orBBEdit, (bbedit is the full studio version)
Smultron (HTML editor)
Fetch
iworks

 

[toosepin]

Final Cut Pro
IDVD

Because thats all I use the Macs for at work.

You use FCP, yet you use iDVD....? Surely DVD Studio Pro is reaches ahead of iDVD?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Firefox
MSN Messenger
Flip4Mac
VLC
Transmission
Adobe Photoshop CS2 (soon CS3)
Final Cut Pro

 

[stuppy]

Firefox
Mail
MSN Messenger
Parallels
Quicksilver
Max
iTunes
Chicken of the VNC
Transmit
Niceplayer

 

[AJUK]

Launchbar*
Vectorworks
DrFrame 3D
iWork
MuPad
iBiz and iBank
Filemaker
NoteBook
PDF Clerk

*Don't get me wrong Quicksilver is superb, I just can't get along with it and I find old 'launchy' stunningly fast, intuitive and it suits my way of working better plus I just don't need all the extras that QS gives you)

 

[Logsi]

Dashboard-Dunno if its really "software" but the way i customized it its very good!

Mail-First email client i have used and its extremely good and everything is synced up e.g aperture, address book.

Photoshop CS2-Self Explanatory

Aperture-Awesome RAW post production tool which i have found extremely useful.

MSN Messenger-Needed to talk to mates, funnily enough the only thing that has ever crashed on my macs.

Camino-Just switched today and i find it very fast and has better scrolling than Firefox or safari.

Reason-Easy music production software which i have just started getting to grips with.

Itunes-For all my tunes, love the album art view!!!

Josh