10 Mac Apps
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 by MR
Thanks to Colin Devroe I’ve been selected as the next to carry on this useful meme. Pick my favorite Mac applications. Okay, let’s go:
- Adium — The best instant messaging client on any platform happens to be only for Mac OS X. Totally customizable, ad-free, open source, tabbed chatting, XHTML/CSS theming, it kicks major ass.
- Apple Mail — Apple Mail is my email client of choice. It’s very fast, very stable, and does everything I want. Also, it has some really nice add-ons, like…
- Mail.appetizer — This is an add-on for Apple Mail that I cannot live without, and as soon as you install it you won’t be able to live without it either. If you have Mac OS X 10.4, Mail.appetizer pops up transparent window with the first few paragraphs of a new mail message, and lets you mark it as read, delete it, or view the message without actually having Apple Mail as your frontmost application. Instead of clicking on the Mail icon in your dock to see that you have a new message that turned out to be spam, you can delete it instantly in about 1 second. A serious time saver if you’re at your Macintosh all day long.
- TextMate — TextMate is my editor of choice now, surpassing BBEdit full-time about 8 months ago. The tabbed project view is great, every site I’m working on has its own TextMate project associated with it.
- Transparent Dock — Doesn’t really do anything useful except take your dock background away, but I can’t live without it.
Those are just the ones that may not be in usage on your machine. Obviously I’m in Photoshop, Safari, iTunes and Transmit all day long, but those are more common so I didn’t list them. Got any favorites?
Reader Comments
9 Responses to “10 Mac Apps”
Hmm…now it is fairly late here and I do have a lot clogging my brain at the moment…but you’re missing a solid 5 out of the “10″ Mac Apps…
[Ed: Yeah it's late here too... oh well!]
April 26th, 2006 at 12:28 am
Thanks. Been bookmarking a lot of theese posts lately, so that I’ll be fully prepared when I finally buy myself a Mac. :)
April 26th, 2006 at 3:06 am
I’ll just butt in and note:
- Camino, my new web browser of choice
- NetNewsWire, my feedreader of choice
- skEdit, my code editor of choice
- X-tunes, a small app that lets me control iTunes by hitting Cmd-space (configurable); much faster than any other approach
- Xyle Scope: awesome tool for CSS designers. :)
April 26th, 2006 at 4:35 am
Mail.appetizer sounds good but it’s not really necessary as I’m using SpamSieve. Every message I get is aaaall good. :)
Still good if you’re one of those people that must read mail straight away.
April 26th, 2006 at 6:10 am
Adium & TextMate are sublime. Don’t forget Trasmit!
April 26th, 2006 at 8:58 am
I second the choice of Apple Mail and Textmate. Textmate is incredible, and makes it very easy to manage projects/pages. Couple it with the Transmit FTP client and you have a nice package.
I used to use Adium and loved it - so many nice features and so clean. However, I switched back to iChat because I really only chat with those on AIM or googleTalk.
Good List!
April 26th, 2006 at 9:20 am
It’s all about iChat with Chax man. Although with the Summer of Code at Google doing a number on Adium this year things may change.
April 26th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
- Cyberduck is my favorite OS X FTP client; it’s simple and easy to use, fairly powerful, and it’s FOSS!
- HandBrake is a wonderful app that will rip and compress a DVD in a single step. Totally kickass. Also FOSS.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:21 pm
I use subethaedit constantly. Beautiful context-sensitive plain text editor :)
I’ll have to try Adium.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:29 am
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