Wednesday
Mar182009
35+ Useful Mac Apps & Utilities
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 2:00PM
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Inspired and pilfered from Cnet's Real Deal Podcast 153
(of which I am a big fan), here are 35+ Macintosh applications and utilities used and recommended by the ubergeeks Tom Merritt and Rafe Needleman!
- Audacity (open source software to record and edit sound)
- Caffeine (stop auto sleep or dimming)
- Cocktail (essentially expanded System preferences)
- Crossover (run many Windows applications and games)
- Dashboard (Mac widgets)
- Disk Inventory X (disk usage utility for OSX)
- DropBox (file syncing and sharing)
- Evernote (manage all your notes and info, remember everything)
- FileZilla (cross-platform graphical FTP client)
- FireFox plug-ins:
Cooliris (3D web media viewer)
XMarks (bookmark sync and sharing)
Colorful tabs (makes each tab new color)
Google Toolbar (Google search and widgets browser toolbar) - Handbrake (rip DVD's)
- ID3 Editor (Edit and create ID3 information tags to mp3-files)
- istat pro (sytem monitoring widget)
- Levelator (make your spoken-word recordings sound professional)
- LogMeIn (remote access your PCs from anywhere)
- Nextbus (GPS tracking of transit, shuttles and trains on the web)
- Nvu (Open source web authoring system with WYSIWYG)
- Onyx (System optimizer)
- Open Office (free MS Office replacement)
- Picasa (Google's photo management software)
- QuickSilver (application launcher)
- Seashore (open source image editor for OSX)
- Skitch (screen capture and image sharing)
- Skype (cheap VOIP, free video and text chat)
- SoundSource (switch your audio input and output with one click)
- SpinXpress (share files quickly and privately)
- The Unarchiver (better archive unpacker program)
- TimeMachineEditor (change the default backup interval of Time Machine)
- Times Reader (all of the New York Times print edition with crossword)
- Transmission (BitTorrent client)
- Tweetdeck (Desktop twitter client)
- VLC (cross-platform media player and streaming server)
- VMWare Fusion (vrtualize and run Windows in a window)
- Windows Live Sync (automatic file sync between computers)
- Witch (freeware window switcher)
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Reader Comments (2)
As a new Mac user, babymac, I am not sure where to start. Thanks for the list.
Bob Kaufer
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