Must-have Mac OS X apps

Posted 8 months, 1 week ago at 7:57 pm. 1 comment

There are some applications that are so amazing, every mac user should have. Although some are payware, the are limited and are definitely worth it. A lot of good applications are included with Macs in iLife, however there are still some that are necessary for the happiest mac-ing!

These applications pretty much cover it for me. iWork is awesome for me, but some business users would prefer something with more Microsoft compatibility should opt to the new Microsoft Office 2008. Adium is a great, muli-protocal instant messaging client thats more light weight than iChat. Perian allows for playing of many different types of media files from within quicktime.  Photoshop, although expensive, is the greatest image editing program available.

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  1. Brontojoris May 26th 2008

    Thanks for the list. While I agree with most, I would highly recommend replacing RSS with a Bloglines account (Since it is accessible from a mobile device, and keeps your read items counts in sync).
    Also, I would swap Transmit with Interachy for its Auto-Uploads, FTP Disk and Network Monitoring features, and I would ditch iStatPro for Menu Meters.
    Lastly, while Perian is good, nothing beats VLC for playing every video file out there.


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