Mac users recommended apps

[danlvin]

Hey, would like see what apps are Mac users love most. Here are shared what I use mostly on my Mac. Please recommend yours. )

iPhoto
Popular and almighty app to do almost any photo work. Nice design and easy to use.
Sparrow
Great app to do email work on Mac. Easy-to-use but quite efficient. Really love the cute app.
Battery Health
Useful app to help me keep my eyes on the battery for better use of Mac. Also teaches me a lot to run my Mac better.
Retickr
Nice app to help me be in touch with the current world. Get to know what's happening in an easy way.
SeaSky Video Converter
Affordable video tool to help me do video work on Mac and it's not expensive. Can't imagine to have fun without a video app.
GarageBand
Really cool app to inspire my music talent. Have a lot fun with this app in my life.

Well, these just what I frequently use on my Mac. Tell me what you love.

 

[Rottie]

iMovie I can edit video on the go and send it to YouTube but I use FCPX more
Trillian all in one IM client (AIM Yahoo Windows Live Google Talk and Skype)
Twitter client helps me to keep in touch with people from the world
Growls is a push notification for other apps
Dropbox is like iCloud apps with free 2GB storage space
and other deaf related apps that you don't need to know.

 

[KeypoX]

xbmc - the full media player
vlc - barebones media

adium - AIO IM client
growl 2.x - notification, finally apple is coping and giving in main os
chrome - best browser

Carbon copy clone - great backup utility, full featured

 

[Oyeve]

iCaramba.

 

[sourceninja]

terminal
dterm
chrome
textmate
a few dozen python scripts

that's about all I use anymore.

 

[alfa147x]

Coda
Adobe Suite
AutoDesk AutoCad
AutoDesk Inventor
Aperture
Lightroom
Plex

 

[alfa147x]

CyberDuck

 

[Pia]

Quicksilver, MacVim, VLC, Minuteur, Growl
(ton of cross platform stuff - Firefox, Thunderbird, Gimp, etc.)

 

[cheez]

This is what I use.

AppleJack - Best system maintenance tool ever for Apple computers. keeps your hard drive clean and fix system and cache files.

The Unarchiver - Unwraps zip / rar files real good. Great freebee app.

MPlayerX - All Mac video players are ghey, but at least MPlayerX is less ghey. Compatibility is great. It has video and audio equalizer for full adjustments including sharpness. Videp playback is very touchy, meaning not very smooth. But it's better than other freebee apps out there.

- AppCleaner - Very good app uninstall free program. Approved by cheez.

- uTorrent - I only use it cause it's what I'm used to.

- FireFox

 

[Adramalech]

Twitter Client - Osfoora
Text/Coding - TextMate and ByWord
Text Expander - TextExpander by Smile
Easy calendar input - Fantastical
Keyboard Control of the OS - Alfred with Powerpack
Keep the computer awake while watching a Youtube or Netflix clip - Caffeine

There are many more I use on a daily basis if you want me to share some more

 

[slashbinslashbash]

Activity Monitor - keep track of your RAM and CPU usage
Parallels - Run Windows, nuff said. Now that I have 16GB, I keep it open all the time.
calibre - ebook converter for Kindle
Transmission - nice BitTorrent client
MS Office - The standard, and not so bad, really.
A Better Finder Rename - helps to batch rename files in an intelligent manner.
DiskWarrior - Good for keeping around for when your HD gets effed up

 

[KeithP]

usage
Parallels - Run Windows, nuff said. Now that I have 16GB, I keep it open all the time.

Parallels has always worked fine for me with Windows VM but it just blew away, for a second time, an OS X Lion VM.

First time I tried to roll back to a Lion snapshot. Parallels hung while doing this, afterwards I could no longer access the VM machine. Had to recreate the VM.

Second time I selected "Shut Down" in the Lion VM which seemed to start okay but Parallels got stuck and endlessly beach balled. After waiting for it to finish whatever it thought it was doing I finally had to "Force Quit". Now, when launching Parallels, I am greeted with a screen that says "Mac OS X Stopping..." and it won't do anything else. Looks like another reinstall is in my future.

Since my Mac Pro seems stable and without problems, I have come to the conclusion that with Lions VMs, Parallels is a mess. I will probably go back to Fusion.

-KeithP

 

[danlvin]

Trillian all in one IM client (AIM Yahoo Windows Live Google Talk and Skype) Dropbox is like iCloud apps with free 2GB storage space

The Trillian is awesome. It's really a cool app that helps me keep in touch with people much more convenient and easier.

The Dropbox is a really nice app. It would be amazing if there is more space. Or ask too much?

 

[umrigar]

XLD (X Lossless Decoder) for my music file conversions
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23430/x-lossless-decoder

Audacity for lossless editing, for example capturing vinyl or cassettes
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac

Quicksilver for fast keystroke app launching
http://quicksilver.en.softonic.com/mac

Disk Inventory X to find what the heck's taking up your drive space
http://www.derlien.com/

OnyX for cleaning caches & other stuff
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx

RipIt & Handbrake for DVD rip & encode

R-Name UB for multiple file renaming
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/12259/r-name

JDownloader for multi-part downloads from sites like Rapidshare

WhatRoute for network testing, address scan, etc

 

[slashbinslashbash]

OnyX for cleaning caches & other stuff
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx

OnyX is great. Been a while since I've used it, but it's a very nice tool.