Hook Me Up!
Well, now that I have my brand new 1GHz 17" Flat Panel iMac, I need some nifty software. I'm already running Konfabulator Widgets and use Icy Juice for my ICQ needs. Thanks to stupiderlikeafox, I now have cocoa mouse gestures. Now it's your turn to post your favorite must-have shareware/freeware/betaware programs/utilities/etc. Doing so will postpone your impending doom and will nearly guarantee that your demise will be slightly more painless.
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MPlayer OS X - For playing any movie format you can think of other than WMP9.
SubEthaEdit - Formerly Hydra. Horrible name, but a great text editor, and free. I use it instead of TextEdit because it doesn't try to change things for you the way TextEdit does, for example when you're writing HTML.
VLC - Another movie player, I think it's better than MPlayer because it doesn't have as many problems with audio and video getting out of sync, but it's also more demanding (not a problem for a 17" iMac). Not quite as tolerant of strange file formats as MPlayer.
WireTap - Records any audio coming out of your computer.
XBench - Series of benchmark tests, which test the processor, graphics card, memory system, and hard drive. Uploaded to an online database so you can compare your computer with others.
Any others? No one else wants to postpone their impending dooms?
Poisoned - for sharing files on both Gnutella and Fasttrack (Kazaa) networks.
Fink - for one-click download and installation of Unix software
Brickhouse - for setting up your own custom firewall and permanent internet sharing
Carbon Copy Cloner - for cloning ANY drive onto any other drive (even CD-Rs through the wonder of disc images)
iTunes-BPM - really, really addictive way to click-measure the BPM of all your MP3z
Well, that's everything no-one else has mentioned that I can think of...
Barto
GraphicConverter - the interface is hideous, but it's the best app for quick image manipulation, viewing, conversion, and batch modifying. "Imports about 175 graphic file formats; Exports about 75 graphic file formats "
Transmit - the best FTP client for Mac OS X
TinkerTool - enables/disables hidden features in Mac OS X, Finder, and Dock
Cocktail - similar to TinkerTool, but a standalone app, and has a few more functions too.
Pacifist - for extracting specific contents from installer packages
pth iTunesNotifier - a handy little menu item that is very configurable. It tells you the current track being played, ratings, etc. You can also set it to control iTunes and provide song ratings on the fly. It's ass-ugly out of the box, but with some tweaking it can be real purdy.
Meteorologist - It's now gone open-source (read: dead), but it works extremely well. It does what it names indicates.
OmniOutliner - A great app for outlining and brainstorming. I love it. Use it with OmniGraffle for some great diagraming fun.
OmniGraffle - The best diagraming application I've ever seen. Combine it with OmniOutliner and you never have to have a loose argument again!
Art Director's Toolkit - I never knew I needed this app until I used it. It does all sorts of things that you could do on your own, but it makes it way easier. Essential for web design (IMHO).
Fink Commander - If you want to use Fink, you have to use this. It gets rid of all that apt-get/dselect madness.
Originally posted by torifile
Fink Commander - If you want to use Fink, you have to use this. It gets rid of all that apt-get/dselect madness.
It really should be noted that Fink Commander is included with the Fink disc image
Barto
Originally posted by Barto
It really should be noted that Fink Commander is included with the Fink disc image
Barto
Really? I installed them both a while ago, so I'm out of the loop. Thanks for the info, though.
Originally posted by torifile
[B]pth iTunesNotifier - a handy little menu item that is very configurable. It tells you the current track being played, ratings, etc. You can also set it to control iTunes and provide song ratings on the fly. It's ass-ugly out of the box, but with some tweaking it can be real purdy.
THANK YOU for mentioning this! This is exactly what I've been looking for. More even. And it don't need Konfabulator to work! Thank you very much, Torifile, you've got some good karma coming your way by overnight delivery.
David
One program that is often overlooked and is both simply stunning and reasonable priced is Softpress' Freeway Pro and it's FAST packs.
This program is the best WYSIWYG webdesign program on the planet, and generates the cleanest code in the business. The additional FAST packs allow you to do stuff within Freeway that never seem to amaze mee. Sorry if this sounds like a commercial rant, but I'm just a very satisfied user, eversince version 2. Plus, custumor support is nothing but outstanding - should be a benchmark for other companies
Check out Freeway Pro
Originally posted by bunge
Doom Legacy.
Someone knows the score.
Originally posted by der Kopf
THANK YOU for mentioning this! This is exactly what I've been looking for. More even. And it don't need Konfabulator to work! Thank you very much, Torifile, you've got some good karma coming your way by overnight delivery.
I have found http://synergy.wincent.org/ synergy to be much better at this... Also finds album art automatically...
another place that has a nice list of good software is http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~dfl/osx/ this... but we already mentioned most of this list
Puts both IE and Safari to shame.
Once you get used to browsing the Internet without using your mouse you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
Acquisition - peer to peer file-sharing application that feels like it belongs in Mac OS X. best one i've used on the Mac. www.acquisitionx.com
PixelNhance - quick, easy, and useful, graphics application from now defunct Caffeine Software. still available for download. www.caffeinesoft.com
Tex-Edit Plus is a great text editor. Built in functions for converting windows formatted text to Mac format. Completely scriptable, recordable and attachable. Great text editor to use with Applescript for massaging text. Great way to learn about AppleScript. Set record on in the script editor, do a bunch of things in TE+, go back to the script editor, stop recording then view the resultant script.