Comments on: Top ten: Favorite Mac applications

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:25:10 +0000

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Top ten: Favorite Mac applications, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

By: Jorge Laranjo

Jorge Laranjo — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:51:54 +0000

10. NetNewsWire
9. TextMate
8. BIllings
7. SpamSieve
6. Xtorrent
5. Mail.app
4. 1Passwd
3. BBedit
2. Flash
1. Safari

By: Moca

Moca — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:01:32 +0000

This list could not have come at a better time. Thanks Mike, I just bought a new MacBookPro and am trying to see if it is possible to 100% swtich…

The list helped me fill the blanks for related win apps but I do not know what to do when it comes to fonts!

How can I have my Adode Fontofolio Collection to work on the mac? Besides testing, Fonts management seems to be the only reason why I will have to keep my windos machine pretty close. If I cannot open my older design files with the correct font I’ll be in bad shape.

A couple of additions to the lists:
CocoThumbX for batch thumbnails
1Password (Password manager, I am still trygin but looks like a good replacement for RoboForm)

What about a nice little FLV standalone player for the mac?

By: Dustin Senos

Dustin Senos — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:56:24 +0000

10. Last.fm (I’m a stats freak)
9. Itunes
8. Omni Graffle
7. Firefox
6. Adium
5. Transmit 3
4. Photoshop
3. Flash
2. Quicksilver
1. TextMate

By: Dru

Dru — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:00:20 +0000

Trying to avoid the “obvious” picks like Flash and Photoshop. Those are a given. The following are my must-haves for productivity enhancement or otherwise desert-island software picks.

Sloppy (bandwidth throttler)
WhatSize (measures folder and file size)
MenuMeters (system stats in your menu bar)
VirtueDesktops
NuFile (new documents with right-click)
FilePathToClip & FileHeirToClip (copy paths and contents with right-click)
FileMerge (part of Apple’s Dev Tools)
FileList (renaming utility)
TextMate
QuickSilver

All of these are free except for TextmMate

By: Randy Troppmann

Randy Troppmann — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:22:44 +0000

10. Remote Desktop Connection
9. TextWrangler
8. iTunes
7. Transmit
6. Adium
5. Xcode
4. Terminal
3. CS3 creative suite
2. Garage Band
1. Flash

By: pbaird

pbaird — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:41:37 +0000

Some absolute musts for turning any visual design into Flex App:

- Free Ruler (for layouts and dimensions)
- DigitalColor Meter (apple-shift-c to copy the hex value of any pixel anywhere)
- Fireworks (of course)

By: storm

storm — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:17:57 +0000

Eclipse + FDT
Flash 8
Fex 2
NewsFire
Adium
Parallels
Transmit
Smultron
Skype
PS CS3 beta
and Safari, of course.

By: Savvas Malamas

Savvas Malamas — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:12:07 +0000

Hi Mike.
This is fun!
Here is my list..
10:Parallels(one day left for my first personal Intel-Mac)
9:Safari
8:Ableton Live
7:Ps CS3 BETA(i love the new interface)
6:NetNewsWire
5:Apple Motion
4:After Effects
3:Dreamweaver
2:Macromedia&Adobe Flash
1:Flex

By: Serge

Serge — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:48:34 +0000

10. iSync
(To sync my calendar and addressbook with my cellphone)
9. Addressbook
(Small lightweight simple to use and easy to sync across different machines and my cell phone)
8. iCal
(Small lightweight simple to use and easy to sync across different machines and my cell phone)
7. MAMP
(Makes running Apache Php Mysql a breeze)
6. SoundConverter
(Small lightweight program to quickly convert audio files to another format and made in Belgium :-))
5. Studiometry
(Keeps my freelance life organized. Tells me every morning which clients are too late with their payments etc)
4. Apple Soundtrack Pro
(For all my audio editing)
3. Proteus
(Found it to be more solid than Adium)
2. Apple Keynote
(Far better than PowerPoint. And it looks a lot nicer too)
1. Parallels
(Even tho my main machine is still a PowerMac, I run Parallels on my Mini and absolutely love it)