On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:18 AM, nestamicky wrote:
>> >> Bruce, I would really be interested in knowing what the rest of those >> "must have apps" are. Jeff >> > I really would too..Bruce...what are they...make 'em 10....downloading > Menu Meters this instant Everyone's 'must have' applications list is a bit different: these are a random sample of programs I install on every computer I use...bear in mind that I'm a system administrator/database programmer, so my list is a bit skewed towards that end, and this list does not include the many of the well-known tools everyone should have in their arsenal: Carbon Copy Cloner, Firefox, Graphic Converter, etc, but these are the ones I find very useful that you may or may not know about: (google the name + 'OS X' to find them...I'm being lazy) Menu Meters: as mentioned, like a full set of dash gauges for your computer. TextWrangler: free text editor from BBEdit, handles all my text needs, programming, file laundering, data extraction. Terminal: comes with OS X, right now I have 8 terminal windows open. The best thing to happen to the Mac EVER!! was getting a nice chocolaty Mac in my crunchy peanut butter Unix. :-) DBVisualizer: If you do any work at all with databases, this is an invaluable tool. I manage an Oracle instance, two SQL server, and two MYSql databases all through the same unified interface. Quicktime Pro, Perian, Flip4Mac: the all-in-one media viewing and conversion toolkit for Macs. FFMPegX : Another media conversion toolkit for when the above isn't all-in-one-ey enough :-) NetNewsWire: When the Safari RSS hole was announced, I switched over to this program for all my RSS needs, and I found out why people have been raving about it for a long time. MacFUSE: Makes any number of things appear as a file system, and hence a mountable volume. Want to access your Google Mail as a file server? Want to turn any ssh connection into a mountable volume? Want a continually updated volume with screenshots of every open window on your system (GrabFS)? There's a MacFuse file system for that. Biggest plus? In conjunction with NTFS-3G, it makes NTFS volumes read/ write on OSX. TNEF's Enough: a little utility app I only use once in a while, but it's a lifesaver nonetheless: lets you into those infuriating windows.dat files Exchange users inflict on the rest of the world. TinyURL service. This one I'll include the link because the only place to get it is on a web forum...<http://tinyurl.com/2awonp>. Install it and you can highlight a url in any Services-aware program, and replace it with a tinyurl, or convert it to a tinyurl and puts it on the clipboard. Really useful. If I could find a way of putting the services menu in my contextual menu I'd be even happier. CoRD: Open source MS Remote Desktop application for OS X. Lets me connect to our windows servers many at a time, with full copy/paste functionality. Back when I started using this MS'es own client for OS X 'Remote Desktop Connection' worked well, but was seriously limited, the main one being hat you could connect to only one remote system at a time. They've since released a completely overhauled version that I do use from time to time. Not critical, but cool apps that should be noted: WriteRoom: If you ever have to just sit down and write...this is the tool you need. Nothing but screen and text. Beautiful Dorena: An art doodling application by the original author of KidPix. KidPix all grown up.... CosmoPod: Suck flash video off of web pages like Youtube and many other sites, turn em into .mov files. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
