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Macintosh OS / Apple Computer Applications

The following is a list of applications I (Wesley Fryer) am currently running on my Apple laptop. A February 2010 archive version of this page is also available. I have listed this applications in the order in which I re-installed them / installed them after doing a clean install of my operating system in late February 2010, using Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. I reinstalled these, more or less, in "priority order" in terms of the applications I use the most / need the most. I do love and use both iLife and iWork, but they were installed first because I was offline / without Internet access when I started my "clean installation" process. I'M CURRENTLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS PROCESS, SO THIS LIST IS FAR FROM COMPLETE - YET! (updated 27 February 2010)

The following codes apply: C = Commercial, F = Free or Open Source, N= No longer available as far as I know.

  1. iLife '09 (C) - Multimedia creation and sharing
  2. iWork '08 (C) - Productivity software: I love Keynote's smooth video embedding for presentations
  3. Sierra Watcher (F) - cell phone data card connection software, for 881 with AT&T
  4. Chome (F) - fastest web browser on the Mac
  5. MarsEdit (C) - offline blog post editor
  6. Skitch (F) - screenshot annotation tool which can post directly to Flickr
  7. TextWrangler (F) - text editor with powerful GREP search and replace capabilities
  8. Cyberduck (F) - ftp client
  9. FireFox (F) - extensible web browser
  10. Growl (F) - background notification service
  11. Diigo Toolbar (F) - FireFox extension
  12. Diigo Web Highlighter and Bookmark (F) - Chrome extension
  13. Flickr Desktop Uploader (F) - bulk image upload to Flickr
  14. Audacity (F) - multi-track audio editor
  15. Office 2008 (C) - productivity software: I opt for a custom install with Word, PPT and Excel - English versions only.
  16. Evernote (F) - cloud-based, synchronized note application for desktops and mobiles
  17. CombinePDFs (C) - utility for combining multiple PDF files (shareware: 1st 1000 pages are free)
  18. MPEG Streamclip (F) - video format converter, handles FLVs too
  19. Perian (F) - video codec support for QuickTime
  20. Seashore (F) - Mac port of open source image editor, The Gimp
  21. VLC Player (F) - media player which includes codecs required for Handbrake
  22. Handbrake (F) - DVD ripper / encoder (convert DVDs to iPhone/iPod compatible MP4 format)
  23. RipIt (C) - DVD ripper, gives fewer options than Handbrake, but has simpler interface and can rip some challenging-to-rip DVDs
  24. Tales of Monkey Island (C) - game, part of a MacHeist bundle I bought

Link to my primary blog: "Moving at the Speed of Creativity"

A fairly complete list of social media websites to which I contribute is available on http://claimid.com/wfryer 

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Comments (1)

Wesley Fryer - Mar 2, 2010 8:01 AM

This comment was emailed by Tom Fullerton.

Good morning,

I thought I'd add to your list of must-have Mac apps a few that I have found useful. Made me realize that I've got way too much installed on this machine and I may re-image as you've done yours.

Utility
TechTools - saved my bacon more than once!

Production
Seashore for quick drawings
Inkscape for vector graphics
GIMP for professional image editing

Mindmapping
Freemind
CMap

Emulation
Fusion - running Windows XP & Ubuntu

Players and converters:
VLC
Real PLayer with Real downloader
Handbrake
Macthe Ripper - although I may get iRip
Flip4Mac
Silverlight
Flash / Shockwave

Browsers
I use different browsers for different accounts:
Firefox
Safari
Chrome
Opera

Readers
RSS Owl

Screen capture
Jing
Skitch

I was using combine pdf but I can combine pdf's with preview. Drag and drop the pages into a new document, move them around and save. Works great!

Hope there's something here useful to you.