Here is my list that I compiled a few months ago. Last time we had a thread like this, we had a lot of people chime in with the applications that they used. The numbers next to the names indicate the number of unique times that application was mentioned, not a hard and fast indicator of popularity, but sufficient for our purposes.
We are probably going to want to move this to its own thread.
1 1Password
2 Acorn
Photo Editor
7 Adium
Multiprotocol messaging client, forked off of GAIM, and then in turn Adium was forked into Pidgin, which is IMO, one of the better AIM clients for Windows.
2 Air Mouse
1 Anime Studio
1 Aperture
Apple made photo management and editing app. Not like Photoshop, more LightRoom maybe
1 AppFresh
Software update for everything else, at least everything else that also doesnt use Sparkle.
1 AppZapper
Installing a lot of third party apps on OS X is pretty easy; just drag the .app to the Applications folder. However, just deleting that doesnt always get rid of everything, AppZapper will.
1 Autodesk SketchBook Pro
1 BlueHarvest
2 BOINC
1 Boxee
2 Caffeine
1 Camino
2 Carbon Copy Cloner
Creates a bit for bit copy of a drive, this can also be bootable allowing you make a USB stick that will boot any IntelMac. An excellent way to create an inplace copy of your Macs hard drive, use as a complement to Time Machine to cut down on system restore times.
1 Charles
1 Chicken of the VNC
Its a VNC client, what did you think it did?
2 ClickToFlash
Addon for Safari (works in Leopard, Snow Leopard, 32bit and 64bit) that will replace all the Flash on any webpage with clickable boxes. Instead of the Flash content you instead have the option to enable what you want. Also, with YouTube, you can also tell it to load h.264 versions of the videos which means that even my G4 PowerBook can do YouTube stuff.
1 Coda
Panic made this HTML editor since they were tired of using 3 or 4 different apps when they were writing websites and what not. So they made Coda and then decided to sell it to end users.
1 ColdFusion
2 Colloquy
1 Compressor
1 Connect360
1 Cornerstone
5 Cyberduck
2 Default Folder X
1 Delicious Library
Written by Wil Shipley (former owner of Omni, the makers of OmniWeb, OmniFocus, really everything that starts with Omni) this lets you categorize and organize all of your possessions. Utilizing the iSight Camera on your Mac you can take pictures of the barcodes on your DVDs, CDs, BluRays, books, all kinds of stuff, it then taps into Amazons database to get the information on the item (heck, this thing will organize your power tools even!) Then if you were to loan them out you can keep track of them all.
1 Dr DivX
1 Dreamweaver
3 DropBox
Simple drag and drop cloud based backup utility. 2GB of storage for free just for joining up, and more storage available to you if you refer others to use it. More is also available for a fee.
1 DVD Studio Pro
1 EggTime Counter
1 eyeTV
When paired with a Tuner, this will let you watch TV on your Mac. Pretty nice interface too.
1 Fetch
1 Final Cut Express
1 Final Cut Pro
1 Final Draft
1 Firebug
Web Debugger for Firefox, if you arent a web dev then you might not care about this.
5 Firefox
If you havent heard of Firefox then there may be something wrong with you. Open Sources (to reduce the entire community and movement into a single term) most well known jewel. The browser that kicked off the new Browser Wars, and forced IE to use tabs and start actually thinking about standards compliance (maybe). Not my preferred browser anymore, but plenty of people like it (second most used browser right now), and with the wide assortment of plugins for it, it really can be a lot for many.
1 Flash
Again with the obvious things.
2 Flip4Mac
Allows Quicktime to playback WMV files from Windows Media Player. Also gives you in browser support as well (may be Safari only).
1 Free Ruler
I am guessing this is a Ruler app of some sort. Perhaps to verify the size that something will appear when printed.
3 Frostwire
Free Limewire clone (no seriously, same code, same appearance), but gives you the Limewire Pro features for free, and for Windows users, none of the dangers that come with just Limewire (disregarding the files you get with it)
1 Fugu
1 GeekTool
An app that will measure your geekiness, think GayDAR but for geeks. No, not really. A benchmarking and performance measurement took. So, to measure your GeekPenis, or Geekenis, or Geekiness
so yea, an app that will measure your geekiness.
1 Generator
1 GetTube
App that will capture video files from YouTube and give you the .MP4 version. Alternatives include ClickToFlash, TubeSock, and this handy browser bookmark (browser bookmark forthcoming)
1 Gimp
Free, Open Source alternative to PhotoShop. Not a fan.
2 Glimmer Blocker
AdBlocker for Safari, works in Safari 64 on Snow Leopard.
1 Glims
Browser Plugin for Safari, enhancements include (but are not limited to), more search options, different way to arrange the tabs, favicons on tab labels, website previews on Google and Yahoo, and more!
1 Google Earth
Its Google Earth, what do you want?
5 Growl
You know those little notifications that you get with Outlook at work? They pop up in the bottom right corner and tell you that you have a new message? Well, have you ever wished that Mail had that? And that you could make it not use the bottom right corner? And that other apps could have notifications like that too? Growl.
3 Handbrake
Free video conversion tool. Originally designed for DVD-> <insert file type here>, it has now expanded to include specific presets for AppleTV, Sony PSP, Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox 360, iPhone, iPod Touch, etc, as well as the ability to set your own presets. Furthermore, it can also be used for File to File conversions as well.
2 Hulu Desktop
Standalone Hulu app for your computer, offers additional features over the website, and is pretty darn nice looking too.
3 iChat
Apple-made multi-protocol chat client that supports additional features such as audio/video chats, screen sharing and document sharing. Is not as multi-protocol as Adium however.
2 iStat Menus
Parks stats such as RAM usage, HDD usage, CPU usage, CPU Temp, Network usage, and a calendar (and some more too) into your menubar, very handy for at a glance information. Now on version 3, it is a $10 for pay application.
1 iTunes
Its iTunes! If you have a Mac, why would you need me to tell you what this is!?!?
1 iWork
Apple-made office suite, includes Pages (Word, with fewer advanced tools, but better layout), Keynote (PowerPoint, but better), and Numbers (Excel, but not as advanced) costs $79
1 Jaikoz
1 LameSecure
1 LastFM
1 Lightroom
1 Linotype FontExplorer X
1 LIttle Snitch
1 Live Mesh
1 LogMeIn
1 MacPAR Deluxe
1 MAME
1 MediaCalculator
1 MediaLink
1 Menu Meters
1 Microsoft Mouse
3 Microsoft Office
1 Motion
1 MPlayer OS X Extended
1 NeoOffice
1 NicePlayer
1 OmniDiskSweeper
1 OmniFocus
2 OpenOffice
1 Oracle SQL Developer
1 Pages
1 Parallels
2 Path Finder
3 Perian
As they call it, the swiss army knife of codecs, this free addition for Quicktime (Quicktime X support is limited as of this writing), this will allow you to play back a much larger number of video types in Quicktime including MKV. The drawback to their MKV support is that it requires the entire video to buffer in first before you can scrub or jump through it. Otherwise it is fantastic and a large part in what keeps me using Quicktime as my primary video player on OS X.
3 PhotoShop
This is the defacto, standard, everybody knows what it is photo editor. Been around for ages, got its start on Mac OS, and if you need more info than that, then maybe you shouldnt use it.
1 Plex
1 Podworks
1 Quicksilver
CMD+Space brings up Spotlight, the system wide, indexing supersearch that Apple put into Tiger and then has since expanded and kept in OS X (and also on the iPhone now). Quicksilver takes that one step further and lets you launch applications (available in Leopard and beyond), control iTunes, start an email, all kinds of stuff. I never got into it, but I can appreciate the convenience.
1 Remote Buddy
2 Remote Desktop Connection
Microsoft-made client that allows you to control Remote Desktop enable Windows computers. Works quite well, I like it a lot.
1 RightZoom
2 Safari 4
Apple-made web browser, recently eked out of third place into 4th by Chrome. Very fast, decent memory management, full standards compliance and my favorite browser.
1 Safari AdBlock
Free adblocker for Safari (pretty subtle name huh?). Works pretty well, with updateable whitelists and whatnot. Unfortunately, does not work with Safari 64 in Snow Leopard.
2 SequelPro
1 SixtyForce
1 SizeUp
2 Skype
Free VOIP app that also allows for video chat, good for staying in touch with PC and Mac using friends across the country, and the globe.
1 Smart Reporter
2 smcFanControl
1 Smultron
1 Spaces
1 SplashID
1 Synergy
1 Taply
2 Terminal
Unix command line terminal for OS X. From here you can make any number of changes to the OS, as well as open up emacs, use FTP, you know, command line stuff.
2 TeXShop
3 TextMate
1 TextWrangler
1 The Unarchiver
Free ZIP unarchiving utility. Also handles (
3 Toast Titanium
Payware CD/DVD/BluRay burning software for OS X, made by Roxio. If any of you used Roxio on Windows back in the day, and then were remarkably upset with them when the program went to the dogs all those years ago, you can blame this program. It seems that Roxio put most of their effort into Toast and it shows. I really like using it, as it can make/burn ISOs, recover scratched disks, span data across multiple disks and so on. If you need a full featured burning suite, then this is the one to get for OS X.
1 Toon Boom StoryBoard Pro
3 Transmission
Open Source torrent client available for free. Initially regarded as second rate in the community, in fact so much so that it was actually blocked from most trackers, Transmission has grown into a full featured client that will handle encrypted peers, port forwarding, torrent creation and more, all while maintaining its lightweight feel, and small memory footprint. If you torrent at all, this is a must have.
3 Transmit
2 TweetDeck
1 Tweetie
1 UnRAR X
The included Archive Utility from Apple is sufficient I suppose. Assuming you never open anything other than .ZIP and .TAR.GZ. But since there are more compression formats than just those two, you need something else. UnRAR X gets the job done pretty well, at least with .RAR, one of the more popular compression formats out there.
2 USB OverDrive
1 UTC Global Clock
1 uTorrent
A very popular Windows torrent client, users in OS X have been clamoring for a native version for years (some users). The appearance of uTorrent in beta form for OS X a few months ago was met by this author with something less than interest since Transmission already fulfills the needs of most OS X torrenters.
1 Virtual Box
Free, Open Source VM software, I have never been able to get it to work right, but if you can, you can save some money.
4 VLC
Open Source video player created by the VideoLan Team. Will basically play back any format of video on the planet, making it a nice addition to Quicktime. I use it primarily for MKV and FLV videos, and I really prefer the OS X version over the Windows version.
3 VMWare Fusion
Created by the gods of Virtual Machines, Fusion is their first and only Mac version. Fusion will let you run Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris, et al in OS X letting you have access to things such as Microsoft Office 2007 without having to reboot.
1 WinClone
1 Windows
OS (Operating System) made by Microsoft. Currently running on approximately 95% of all consumer computers in the world, it is an important thing to be familiar with in this day and age. On ones Mac, it is possible to run Windows as an application (essentially) by using VMWare Fusion, or Parallels. Both of these will also allow you to have Windows windows float alongside your OS X windows (mildly trippy on the unexpecting). Furthermore, if it is necessary to run Windows natively, that is at full speed with full features, you can utilize Apples Boot Camp Assistant software to partition your drive and then install Windows like you would on any other computer.
1 XBMC
1 XCode
Apple-made IDE. Very full featured, huge (1GB+) installer, with this you can make anything from simple Cocoa apps to full fledged Operating Systems (OS X is written in XCode). You can also write iPhone apps with this, however that requires an intel Mac.
3 XMarks
Addon for Firefox that allows the user to store their bookmarks remotely. Then, they can retrieve this list on any other computer via Firefox again. I believe they also allow you to backup your Safari and IE bookmarks now too.
1 Yahoo! Messenger
Allows you to connect to the Yahoo Messenging service. I do not use it and therefore cannot judge its efficacy.
1 Yojimbo
A little notebook for your computer.
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