35+ Useful Mac Apps & Utilities

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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)

Comments

[Bob Kaufer]

As a new Mac user, babymac, I am not sure where to start. Thanks for the list.

Bob Kaufer
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