whats your best Apps

[fadetoblack]

Hi all,

I am new to the mac seen and just wondering whats your fav Apps & tweaks
to mountain lion?

so far I've found TweetDeck
and i like using open office

 

[OhEsEcks]

AppCleaner for deleting applications.
TextWrangler for python / perl.
Transmission for torrents.
Keka for archiving.
Macports for building *.nix software and libraries on OS X. I use this almost solely for building irssi. Though I can build Transmission and Keka through it if I wanted.
Xcode. I need this to install the command line tools which I need for macports. I haven't checked the developer website to see if the CLI tools are available as a standalone *.pkg file though.

 

[uniQ]

General/Essential/Poweruser:
Alfred + Powerpack
LittleSnitch
Degrees

Web Dev/Programming:
Forklift 2.5
Sublime Text 2
IntelliJ IDEA

Productivity:
Soulver
LittleSnapper
1Password
Fantastical

Tweetbot for Mac (Alpha) > All twitter clients.
http://tapbots.com/tweetbot_mac/

 

[fadetoblack]

thanks guys keep them coming

 

[Jimz]

Wow Macs have the Worst Apps EVER.

for a company which has so much money they don't seem to invest much in the applications to use on the Macs

 

[OhEsEcks]

Wow Macs have the Worst Apps EVER.

for a company which has so much money they don't seem to invest much in the applications to use on the Macs

What?

 

[tombrr]

Coda 2
uTorrent
Adobe Lightroom4
VLC
Firefox
Alfred
Sparrow

 

[Skyboat]

What?

He's a known troll, ignore him.

Back on topic, here's what I currently have installed (after clean installing ML):

Developer Tools
Hex Fiend
TextWrangler
Xcode

Productivity
CheatSheet
GitHub
Growl
Parallels Desktop 7
VMWare Fusion 4

Reference
Mactracker

Utilities
AppCleaner
Img2icns
Pacifist
Signal
The Unarchiver
Transmission

Video
iFlicks
Media Inspector
Miro Video Converter
MP4Tools
Plex
Subler
VLC

 

[fadetoblack]

great information thanks again

 

[Roughneck]

Handbrake

and

iFlicks

 

[OhEsEcks]

Add smcFanControl to my list. This heat has been causing me some grief with machines getting toasty. I downloaded smcFanControl and made a couple profiles for different speeds.



Default = 1200RPM
Medium = 2000RPM
High = 3000RPM
Ludicrous Speed = 4000RPM (Max setting)

 

[arty]

The apps I use the most, mainly for work, are:

1Password - probably the single most useful utility I have, genuinely couldn't live without it now
Dropbox - cloud storage
Google Drive - cloud storage
Growl - notifications, slightly less relevant in Mountain Lion due to it including Notification Centre
iWork Suite - Keynote is very good for presentations, Pages is okay but a bit simplistic, Numbers is a bit ropey and rather slow compared to Excel
OmniFocus - outstanding GTD application, I basically live in here
OmniGraffle - excellent diagramming tool, way ahead of Visio
OmniOutliner - fairly decent note-taking / drafting tool, could do with better organisation
OmniPlan - decent project planning tool, but a bit faffy compared to the other Omni apps
Reeder - use this all the time for RSS via Google Reader, superb
Remote Desktop Connection - not very good, but it does usually work when RDP'ing into Windows machines
Skype - still pretty de facto in the business world despite its descent into mediocrity and ads
Sparrow - really good email client, particularly for Google Apps / GMail
Sublime Text 2 - trounces all other Mac text editors by a country mile, and I've used them all
The Unarchiver - jolly useful unzipping / un-raring / un-everythinging tool, seamless
Transmit - a very good FTP client with some cool features (folders for connections, S3 support, syncing etc.)
VMWare Fusion - still find this better than Parallels, though that might be because I use a lot of other VMWare stuff and do Linux virtualisation as well as Windows
XLD - roughly equivalent to EAC on Windows, a really good lossless-oriented audio CD ripper

I have a few others but they are not especially good 'finds', as it were

 

[durbs]

Parallels, its is a thing of loveliness. With it I'm all self-contained on my MBP, OSX for general browsing, iOS development and office work, Win 7 for 'proper' boring development work and Ubuntu for sundry stuff like Torrents and playing around. All available with a click and all run super smooth.

 

[durbs]

MAMP is very good. I'm a .NET developer so am not a fan of PHP but occasionally have to do a bit of PHP work for various clients. With MAMP the environment is really simple to set up so I don't have to mess around fiddling with Apache etc and can just do the job and move on.

 

[Goodie]

1Password - probably the single most useful utility I have, genuinely couldn't live without it now

Is 1Password really that good? I mean, I can see it's practical implications, however for £35 it seems stupidly overpriced for what it does

 

[durbs]

Is 1Password really that good? I mean, I can see it's practical implications, however for £35 it seems stupidly overpriced for what it does

I've heard its very good but I dont own it - because of the reason you state above.

I use mSecure instead on my iPhone, seems a very nice app and has saved my bacon a few times when i've forgotten pin numbers or online banking id's.

 

[arty]

Is 1Password really that good? I mean, I can see it's practical implications, however for £35 it seems stupidly overpriced for what it does

It was worth £35 to me, yes. I have secure passwords across the board, and to log in to the vast majority of websites I just type Command-\ in Safari. I would be lost without it now, really.

It's a simple concept but well executed and one of those things you don't appreciate the value of until you have had it for a while

 

[ince]

News

 

[uniQ]

1Password is certainly worth it. I use it in conjunction with LastPass which is free but couldn't do without either.

 

[molar]

I found some great tips here for new software, loving 1Password, Sublime Text and The Unarchiver. Any recommendations for image editors? I have installed Gimp and been using it for a while now on an older Mac but wondering if there are better alternatives? Thanks.