![]() VisualHub - this little app is a Godsend and should have been made years ago. UnRARx, Split&Concat, and Gumby - these 3 FREE utilities will decompress pretty much anything you throw at it. Senuti (iTunes backwards) - this app has an iTunes-like interface and allows you to copy songs off of your iPod to your desktop Toast Titanium 7 - the new version lets you drag and drop any format video files and creates DVDs from them that can be played on console DVD playersįetch - the original FTP client and still the best Plus, you can get plugin scripts for Firefox that allow it to do other cool things. But sometimes it doesn't translate pages as they are intended. Here's a list of software that I am head over heels in love with:įIREFOX - Safari, Apple's web browser, is really pretty great. He also offers a free download for QuickTime that updates the playing controls to a more Tiger-like style. By the way, stop by here if you want some replacement icons for things like Firefox and the Desktop icon to make them more 'Mac-like'. Delicious Library SHAREWARE ($40.00)- an essential cataloguing toolJust a few of my favourites. iClip SHAREWARE ($19.95)- an indispensable utility that lets you have multiple clipboards iAlertU FREE! - if you have an Apple Remote you can use it to secure your Mac with car alarm style defences Flip4Mac FREE! - saves you having to download Windows Media Player for. Mactracker FREE! - if you're a Mac geek you'll love to keep a library of all the Macs ever made Image Tricks the lite version is FREE! - a free and fun image-manipulation tool that makes use of Core Image filters Google SketchUp FREE! - an excellent 3D modelling tool, excellent!!! Google Earth FREE! - well if you don't know what it is, you soon will. Handbrake is good but make sure you stop by here to pick up a replacement icon to get rid of that ghastly one. ![]() You can spend a lot of hours going through it and making a list of apps to look at when getting you Mac. is a listing of 16,300+ OS X apps, ranging from freeware to full commercial packages. į puts up a different free app each weekday and is an easy place to look at different free apps. I like the simplicity of this compared to Delicious Library and have set it up to download a copy of the library to my iPod so I can stop buying duplicate books - I tend to do that a bit now that I'm getting old. I use Overflow to keep the dock to a minimum - there are about 30 apps in mine and it allows for very fast selecting of an app to open,īookpedia () is what I use to keep track of my book library (there are also versions for CDs and DVDs). Very nice to have the warning in order to make a backup. Found a small app called SMARTreporter (at ) that has a small disk on the menu bar - it's green if the HD is fine and goes to red if there is a problem. I've had a HD go bad and caught it early because I was going to do a Repair Disk Permissions and saw the warning. It shows how much free RAM you have left, your computer's uptime, temperature (useful since the MacBooks run hot), and a bunch of other stats. IStat Pro - iStat Pro is a widget for Dashboard that I find very geeky and useful. If the movie's on your hard drive it'll drain far less battery life than it would trying to read with the DVD drive itself. It's also handy when going on those long business flights and the in-flight movie isn't very good. It's extremely customizable, so you can make it look like anything you want. It connects to all the major clients, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, you name it. But it has a ton of uses.Īdium X - Adium X is your general all purpose instant messenger. Personally, I use it mostly to skip songs in iTunes without ever going back to the app itself. The only real way to find out what it does is to use it. It launches apps, lets you set global hotkeys. ![]() Quicksilver - Quicksilver is the single most useful app you will ever use.
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