Comments on: 16 Killer Apps to Put On Your Brand New Christmas Mac

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:45:22 +0000

These apps don’t necessarily complicate the experience but can further simplify things.

Adium for example lets you talk to all your online chat buddies from a single unified interface – not just those that are using iChat/AIM but MSN Messenger and ICQ too without separate applications running.

I tried iGTD but found the interface to be too clumsy and ugly. I am currently using OmniFocus which is slim and refined.

With the same philosophy I went with Pixelmator over Gimp. Sure it might cost $58 but it is well integrated using CoreImage effects, incredibly fast and slick.

[)amien

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Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:21:00 +0000

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By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:40:42 +0000

I personally like Yojimbo (product of Barebones). I use it to store passwords, archive online receipts, important bookmarks, notes… etc. It’s a very good organizer. It’s worth it.

By: WordPress SEO

WordPress SEO — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:42:48 +0000

I would suggest Typinator instead of TextExpander. I’ve had some serious CPU cycle snarling from TextExpander, along with duplicate pasting. Since I moved to Typinator (it’s cheaper too, at 19 euros), all those issues have stopped.

But the idea of a text expander is a great one for your list. Originally I used TypeIt4Me but the OS X early editions were too dire.

By: thedude

thedude — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:17:32 +0000

Being a former LinuxHead myself, I have the Fink and MacPorts installed on my MBP, which comes in handy if I’m grasping for a quick commandline utility such as unrar or zip or par2 etc,..
My list of essentials for any MAC would include the following:

AudioHijackPro – Great for capturing streaming audio or system audio to MP3 files.

Audacity – Handy freeware for editing mp3’s

Azureus – easy to use Bittorrent Client.

Crossover – an alternative for Windows apps if you dont want to fire up VMWare Fusion

EyeTV – Add a usb tv tuner and you can watch/capture TV on your MAC!

LittleSnitch – Handy little daemon that informs you when a program is initiating network activity such as calling home.

Max – nice little freeware for ripping CD’s to mp3 files, which you can later load unto your iPod.

MondoMouse – one of the drawbacks of OSX is that you can only resize a window by clicking on the bottom right hand corner, but if due to a glitch the window opens larger than your desktop you cant resize it, enter MondoMouse.

MplayerOSX – some users prefer VLC, this is another app for playing divx’s, avi’s, wmv’s, mp3’s etc.

NeoOffice – A port of openoffice to the MAC, in case you need to open/edit any Microsoft Office files.

Toast Titanium – Great CD/DVD authoring tool, when “disk utility” alone wont cut it.

VisualHub – An easy to use, easy way to convert your videos to DVD or iPod. Definitely worth the $23.

VLC – Not only will this play video files and DVD’s, but it can stream files in multicast format acros the LAN.

By: Sam Elowitch

Sam Elowitch — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:43:01 +0000

Indeed the woman in the picture is smokin' hot. A comment: TextMate may be great, but why not give TextWrangler a go? It's free and it's excellent.

By: JS

JS — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:45:44 +0000

Why Firefox? It’s ugly and slow.