apps I can’t do without
I’m planning on starting from scratch with my present install of OS X - get everything tidy before the next update goes on sale.
I want to keep addresses (Plaxo), some of my Safari bookmarks and all my mail (which desperately needs sorting out) as well as all my media, or what’s left after recently dropping my external notebeek hard drive!!! But there’s also a slew of applications that I wouldn’t want to run my mac without, some of them are so embedded in my using the OS that I probably wouldn’t think to name them unless I thought about it.
There’s also a nice write-up about indispensable apps entitled Make your Mac a monster machine, got me back to playing with Dragthing but I can’t say as I dug ASM or fruitmenu. Can’t win ‘em all.
So here it is, my list of ‘apps-that-I-can’t-do-without-so-I-remember-to-install-them-when-I-wipe-my-MBP’: No doubt I’ll be adding to this list for a while
- Ecto - what I use to blog with (not that I do so much at the moment) the other alternative is Marsedit but I’ve found Ecto to be a little more frendly.
- menumeters
- textpander
- quicksilver, should really be at the top - I wouldn’t run a putta without it. Sheer genius.
- slimbatterymonitor
- growl
- dragthing
- plaxo
- spirited away
- adium
- yummy FTP
- Vienna Using rss feeds is a sure sign that you’re on the net too much - having said that; I wouldn’t be without one. Saves trawling through all those websites and delivers the news you want straight to you. Vienna is not as polished as some of the others, but it’s still pretty good and very, very free. (It’s Open Source) Also check out Google Reader if interested.
- handbrake
- Quicktime pro
- smultron
- tinkertool
- wallet
- Carbon Copy Cloner
- Safari stand
- Megazoomer
Here’s the list - I’ll put links in when I get back from India. Most can be found on Versiontracker
- iStats