Software installed on my Mac
A buddy of mine just got a Mac and asked for a list of non-Adobe software that I’ve found during my life with Mac OS X. If it’s pay software I’ve pre-pended the names with “$$”. Here it is.
- $$Versions – Cool GUI SVN tool – http://versionsapp.com/
- $$Tablatures – Awesome MIDI-compatible, PowerTab format compatible guitar tab program – http://www.tellini.org/mac/tablatures/
- $$Audio Hijack Pro – Used to extract audio out of many program sources on your machine, for instance out of youtube vids running in Firefox – http://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/
- $$Charles – A web debugging proxy – http://www.charlesproxy.com/
- AppCleaner – Good Mac Uninstaller – http://www.freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/
- ArrSync – Good Mac directory sync tool, GUI interface for rsync – http://arrsync.sourceforge.net/
- Foomatic – Mac printer driver for HP printers – http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/foo2zjs
- SCPlugin – Subversion Plugin for Mac OS X Finder – http://scplugin.tigris.org/
- VLC Player – Plays just about any video or audio…buggy though – http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- Adium – The best multi-protocol client – http://www.adiumx.com/
- Audacity – Great audio tool that can read 32-bit files from Adobe Audition – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- Picasa Uploader – Works well with Google Picasa – http://picasa.google.com/mac_tools.html
- Windows Media® Components for QuickTime – Play WMV in Quicktime on Mac - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx
- Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2 – Connect to Windows Remote Desktop from Mac – http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/remote-desktop/default.mspx
- XviD_Codec – 1.0a – Used to play Xvid-format (Divx) files in QuickTime – http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25128
- TweetDeck – A great Twitter client – http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
- Yammer Desktop – A Yammer client – https://www.yammer.com/company/desktop
- Skype – Skype client – http://www.skype.com/
- VMWare Fusion – Run your Boot Camp WIndows install inside Mac OS X – http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
- Entourage 2008 – If you have an Exchange mailbox this is Outlook for Mac – http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2008/default.mspx
- $$1Password – Password Manager. Haven’t used it yet but heard good things – http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password
- $$Screenflow – Screencasting tool. Haven’t used it yet but heard good things – http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm
