[Timan]

Lets start a thread on your top favorite apps for OS X.
No warez talk


In no particular order...

- iApps : http://www.apple.com/ilife/
- Adium : ( now that it has msn support ) http://www.adiumx.com/
- Another Launcher : http://www.versiontr...fo/macosx/20035
- Bittorrent : http://www.versiontr...fo/macosx/18286
- VLC : http://www.videolan.org/
- Poisoned : http://www.poisonedproject.com/
- BBEdit : http://www.barebones.com/
- CSSEdit : http://www.macrabbit.com/cssedit/
- Cocktail : http://www.macosxcocktail.com/
- Candybar : http://www.iconfactory.com/cb_home.asp

[Shark]

Lets see

Adium: http://www.adiumx.com/
Another Launcher: http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?thema=l...tsch&kopf=labor
Spy(that live desktop program): http://www.silvernet...et/products/spy
Poisoned: http://www.poisonedproject.com/
DenyIP: http://www.versiontr...fo/macosx/21716
Iconverter: http://www.extraneou...erter/about.htm
VLC: http://www.videolan.org/
Transmit: http://www.panic.com/transmit/
Graphic Converter: http://www.lemkesoft...en/graphcon.htm

I could name more but, i'm too lazy

[contrasutra]

Please note that Timan is recommending (some) open source apps.

I believe hell has officially frozen over.

[SGSeries]

How do i get Adium to work with MSN, i installed it but its all about damn AOL

[wjones3]

I would like to add:

Pixadex
PC-Mac-Net FileShare Live - really cool for those with Windows and Mac
Konfabulator :goku's job:

[wjones3]

Let me also add:

TinkerTool

[Shark]

Quote

Originally posted by SGSeries@Jan 13 2004, 07:31 PM
How do i get Adium to work with MSN, i installed it but its all about damn AOL

Download the latest build of adium 2.0 not 1.6

[Matthias]

This is a great thread, opened me up to a lot of new apps!

Off the top of my head:
(in no order)

iLife (apple.com)
Safari (apple.com) - tabs baby! gotta love em'
M$'s RDC (microsoft.com/mac)
Sherlock (apple.com) - what the pc was missin'
Cocktail (macosxcocktail.com) - just found it fellas, thanks!
LaunchBar (http://www.obdev.at/...ucts/launchbar/) - like "run" for pc, but better

Again, great thread, found cocktail because of it.
Powerful it is. . . yeaaaas


(yoda is still cool)

[rjohnstone]

Most of the above, with the exclusion of Cocktail... it's 3 try's your out shareware now.
TinkerTool does the exact same stuff and it's FREE.

[Seph]

Konfabulator
Missing Sync
Candybar
ShapeShifter
iApps
Poisoned
Transmit
VLC 0.7

Look em up in www.versiontracker.com i fyou dont know where to get them!

Very useful thread Tim!

[Flarex]

Good Lord, how can you forget this one, unless you use a different music player?

iTunes!! www.apple.com

[Myuu.EXE]

1. iTunes 4.2 ~ The greatest music-related program out there. As simple as that.
2. Macromedia Studio MX 2004 ~ To us webdesigners, it's simply paradise.
3. iPhoto ~ Another great looking, yet powerful tool, right off the bat.
4. Transmit ~ If FlashFXP is the greatest FTP client on Windows, then you are looking to it's just counterpart on Mac OS X.
5. Sherlock ~ I haven't yet explored this app throughly, but all I can say is "Wow".
6. Address Book ~ Do I NEED to explain?
7. iChat ~ By far, the best looking IM program I've ever seen. Simply amazing.
8. iCal ~ Now THAT is an organizer.
9. Safari ~ Take that, Internet Explorer! :6
10. Mail ~ Er... Take that, Outlook Express!

And I think we should all give an honorary mention to Heaven made Software: The great Finder.

[Seph]

Ok, lets don't allow this thread to die people

I highly suggest iPulse from the iconfactory, its a bit awkward to get used to the interface, but once you do, you will love it. Granted, this only comes in handy for ram/cpu/disk activity usage freaks, i suggest it nevertheless...

[Ludge]

OK, I've finally got my hands on a mac (old pink iMac running panther. It's fun, bu a horrible colour!) so here goes:

HyperEdit: http://web.ics.purdu...tschj/HyperEdit
(good HTML, CSS and PHP syntax highlighting)

Unison: http://www.panic.com/unison/
(good for newsgroups)


Unison isn't free but the HyperEdit is shareware. It's good enough that I'll be donating to their paypal account.

[n3urotic]

Firefox 0.8. http://www.mozilla.org
This thing kicks the "mr. hankey" out of Safari.

[Myuu.EXE]

Quote

Originally posted by Ludge@Feb 8 2004, 03:41 AM
OK, I've finally got my hands on a mac (old pink iMac running panther. It's fun, bu a horrible colour!) so here goes:

*glares* :6 :6 :6

P I N K ~ P O W E R !

[Seph]

Quote

Originally posted by n3urotic@Feb 9 2004, 11:20 PM
Firefox 0.8. http://www.mozilla.org
This thing kicks the "mr. hankey" out of Safari.

Have you tried kamaleon? that one sis in my eyes, better than mozilla (interface wise), altough i ampretty pleased with safari, c'mon, if theres anything better on the others i cant see it. specially now with the 1.2 version out.

Seph

[Myuu.EXE]

I agree, Safari 1.2 is really great. It does have some kind of issues with certain PHP Scripts (Per se, phpMyChat). So find myself booting up Internet Explorer for Mac...

[n3urotic]

Quote

Originally posted by Seph@Feb 10 2004, 05:00 AM
Have you tried kamaleon? that one sis in my eyes, better than mozilla (interface wise), altough i ampretty pleased with safari, c'mon, if theres anything better on the others i cant see it. specially now with the 1.2 version out.

Seph

My safari has problems with DNS resolution since every version. After surfing for about 20 some minutes it will stop resolving addresses. Only by quiting and restarting the app will it load sites. It seems to degrade more nowadays.

Flushing the cache doesn't work.
Manually rm -r * the ~/Library/caches/Safari folder's content doesn't work

This was the case the day i got my ibook outta the box
Still the case now I reinstalled OSX.
And 1.2 didn't fix anything.

While IE and Fireworks work fine. So does Omnibrowser 4.5. Altho 5 is a bit crashy since it's like beta. I'm waiting for 5 final.

[tourmalet]

let me add a few programs that I really like to use on my Mac, which have not been mentioned so far (I think):

1. MenuMeters - gives you various Stats in the menubar
2. MoonDock - er ... puts the moon phases in the dock
3. Vanity Dockling - puts your uptime in the dock
4. WeatherMenu - puts weather conditions in the menubar (works better for me than WeatherPop Advance, although the icons aren't as nice)
5. WClock - allows you to customise the menubar clock
6. Steam - gives you schedule information on BBC radio and one click lets you listen to any BBC radio station
7. RagTime Solo - Commercial Desktop publishing program. Bit quirky if you are used to Quark or Pagemaker but is FREE for non-commercial use.

All the above are free.

Would just like to mention one piece of shareware. Although it's a bit expensive, CircusPonies Notebook is a wondeful app, with a gorgeous interface. If you use / like MS OneNote, or need to keep a diary/ journal/ log etc then this program is perfect. I use this all the time.

Tourmalet