Top 100 Mac Apps

November 6, 2007 at 3:08 pm · in Apple, Software · Comments

I’ve compiled a list of my top 100 Mac apps for your perusal, since so many people have been asking for it. Thanks to Taylor Olson and Jason for helping me put all the icons and links in place! These apps are certainly Tiger compatible, and most of ‘em work inside Leopard (though the VNC utilities are now unnecessary). I did my best to avoid overly popular titles, but couldn’t avoid it in some cases.

A rolling list of ‘Honorable Mentions’ follow the Top 100, so… keep reading. ;) Only one application is missing.

I’m also happy to announce that both VMware and Shiny White Box are coming aboard as official video sponsors - but their presence in this list is based on app merit. It’s my hope to find exclusive coupons and pricing for any of the following commercial applications… or any commercial Mac app, for tha tmatter. Stay tuned!

Which apps did I miss - especially for Windows switchers? ;)

7zX
(Compress / Decompress 7zX Archives)
ACP Suite
(Ultimate OS X Power Toys Array)
Adium
(Universal Instant Messaging App based on Pidgin)
AP Grapher
(Searches and Displays Wireless Networks)
AppFresh
(Keeps Third Party / Apple Apps Up-To-Date)
AppZapper
(Drag and Drop Uninstall Applications)
ASCII Projecktor
(View Live or Recorded Video in ASCII)
Battery Health
(Maintain Your Battery)
Bean
(Simple Word Processor)
Bonjour Browser
(Browse Local Bonjour Services)
Butler
(Quickly Run Recurring Tasks)
BwanaDik
(Monitor Networks from the Menu Bar)
ByteController
(iTunes Controller from the Menu Bar)
Caffeine
(Control your Mac’s Sleep Schedule)
CamTwist
(Add Effects to Live Video)
Carbon Copy Cloner
(Clones your Entire Mac Hard Drive)
Celtx
(Distributed Play or Movie Script Builder)
ClamXav
(Open Source Virus Checker)
coconutBattery
(View and Track Battery Info)
Colloquy
(IRC Client)
Cyberduck
(FTP / SFTP Client)
DasBoot
(Make your iPod an OS X Toolkit)
DeskLickr
(Changes your Desktop with Flickr Images)
Disk Inventory X
(Disk Usage Utility)
ffmpegX
(Convert Video to/from Any Format)
FlickrGet
(Gets Photos from Flickr)
FreeDMG
(Drag and Drop Disk Imaging)
HamachiX
(Free VPN Client)
HandBrake
(DVD to MP4)/li>
HyperDither
(Converts Images)
iAlertU
(Alarm System for OS X)
Iconverter
(Icon Extraction and Conversionl)
iGTD
(Getting Things Done / Personal Organizer)
iPSP
(PSP Management on OS X)
iShowU
(Extreme Screencasting Tool)
iStat Menus
(System Monitoring from the Menu Bar)
iStumbler
(Wireless AP Discovery Tool)
Jarlnspector
(.JAR Explorer)
JES Deinterlacer
(Deinterlacer for Videos)
JollysFastVNC
(Fast VNC Client)
Journler
(Digital Journal)
Jumpcut
(Clipboard Extender)
KoolClip
(Item Locking, Instant Google)
Levelator
(Adjusts Audio Levels in Podcasts)
Librarian Pro
(Personal Inventory System)
LineIn
(Enable Soft Playthru of Audio)
LiquidMac
(Motion Sensor Liquid Fun)
Mac Pilot
(Enable Hidden Features in OS X)
MacSaber
(Motion Sensor Lightsaber)
MainMenu
(Menu Bar Task Manager)
Max
(Control CD Audio Extraction)
MediaRECOVER
(Recover Deleted Files from USB)
MenuMeters
(Computer Monitoring Tools)
MetaX
(Metadata Tagger for MP4s)
Money
(Finance Manager)
Monolingual
(Removes Unnecessary Languages from Mac OS X)
MPEG Streamclip
(High Quality MPEG Converter)
NeoOffice
(Free Office Suite)
OnyX
(OS X Tweaker)
OpenPList
(”Edit” plist Files)
Operation
(Project Management)
Perian
(Enhance QuickTime Playback Range)
PrintFinder
(Print “Finder” Folder List)
QuickSilver
(Quick Application / File Launcher)
Quinn
(”Extreme Tetris” Game)
Relationship
(Customer Relationship Management)
Resize ‘Em All
(Quick Image Resizing Application)
Rulers
(On-Screen Rulers)
Senuti
(Transfer from iPod to Mac)
Service Scrubber
(Restructure the Service Menu)
Simple Comic
(Comic Viewer)
Skitch
(Simple Screen Shot Sharing Utility)
Sleep Display
(Puts Your Screen to Sleep)
SlingPlayer
(Mac Player for SlingBox)
smcFanControl
(Control the Speed of MacBook Fans)
Smultron
(Free XML Editor)
Stomp
(Video Re-compressor)
Stuffit
(The Classic Archive Manager)
SuperDuper!
(Clone Mac Drive / Backup Utility)
Teleport
(Virtual KVM for Macs)
TextWrangler
(Yet Another Cool Text Editor)
The Unarchiver
(Ultimate Archive Un-doer)
ThumbsUp
(Thumbnail Creation Tool)
TinkerTool
(System Tweaker)
Roxio Toast
(Burn CDs and DVDs)
Transmission
(Simple Torrent Application)
Turbo.264
(H.264 Video Converter)
TVShows
(Track Torrents of TV Shows)
Undercover
(Anti-theft Software)
UnRarX
(Unarchive RAR Files)
Vine Server
(VNC Server for Tiger)
VisualHub
(Easy Batch Video Converter)
VLC
(The Ultimate Media Player)
VMware Fusion
(Virtual Machine Software)
Wallsaver
(Set a Screen Saver as the Wallpaper)
WaterRoof
(OS X Firewall Config Tool)
WinClone
(Clone BootCamp Partitions)
Witch
(Better Than Command+Tab)
xPad
(Slightly More Advanced Text Editor)
You Control
(Puts all of your info into one spot on your Mac)

Honorable Mention (Rolling List):

mac os x, mac software, os x

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apoculos - November 6, 2007 @ 3:20 pm

dig it !

apoculos - November 6, 2007 @ 3:21 pm

digg it

Gary (TuxedoJericho) - November 6, 2007 @ 3:25 pm

submitted to digg.

Scott Mead - November 6, 2007 @ 3:28 pm

I dont own a Mac and never plan on owning a Mac but some of programs seems cool

tapoculos - November 6, 2007 @ 3:30 pm

i digg it !!!

Max Christian Hansen - November 6, 2007 @ 3:35 pm

Chris, sorry but I have to say this is a profoundly unhelpful post. In most cases the name and icon don’t even give me a clue what kind of app it is. So to learn about your whole list, I have to click 100 links. Some of those clicks take me to landing pages which in turn don’t offer me a clue. (e.g. ACP Suite. What does that landing page teach about what the software does? Or even that it’s software–I’m taking *your* word for that.)

This is one of those cases which demonstrate that the random-access web is a little over-sold, where taxonomies and organizing principles really help. The top-100 lists I’ve gotten a lot of benefit from have all been those that group their objects in some way. That way I can learn about a cool new backup utility by knowing I’m about to look at a backup utility, not by clicking 100 links which to me are random, in hopes I’ll find something of interest.

Still, my hat’s off to you, knowing how much work these lists are to compile.

Best,
Max

endless - November 6, 2007 @ 3:35 pm

yeah

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Uldis Bojars - November 6, 2007 @ 4:20 pm

Thanks, a nice list.

Is any of those a file manager like Midnight Commander for Linux or FAR Manager for Windows? Wikipedia Mac apps list misses this category altogether but I find it one of the most essential tools.

Tried a cross-platform muCommander, but seems like in this category a native application is preferable. It did freeze as soon as I tried to do file transfer via SCP. Not good.

David Badash - November 6, 2007 @ 4:27 pm

Chris,

Wow! Nice list!
I should probably take another look at Butler; I’ve been using LaunchBar for years and grew used to it - I do think it’s excellent. I am a huge fan of Peter Maurer, and rely heavily on Witch and Desktop Curtain. Yesterday I moved from Cyberduck to FileZilla, which is more complex but gives you a broader navigation experience. BTW, Onyx - which is great - is not yet certified for Leopard. iStat menus looks awesome. I use iStat Pro. Looks like they’ve developed a lot of cool new apps.

Great job. Looks like a lot of new items to check out!

David

FearedBliss - November 6, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

Thanks, this is definitely going to help me for when I get my MacBook :D.

Paul - November 6, 2007 @ 6:07 pm

haha kewl you use MacSaber too! The most useless application ever but yet so cool!

David - November 6, 2007 @ 6:10 pm

You should replace 7zX with BetterZip which also supposed 7-zip compression as well as many others.

Matt - November 6, 2007 @ 8:23 pm

This was a really great list of apps… Though some of these were PPC only, I found SEVERAL applications I didn’t know about and have been searching for as a solution to various annoyances. Thanks :D

Bob Boyken - November 6, 2007 @ 9:31 pm

I know that all lists like this are subjective, but I’ll offer my take in on a couple of apps. You include both Butler and Quicksilver, but omit LaunchBar. I know the first two are free, but after extensively time with all three, LaunchBar was clearly better for MY needs, and well worth the modest registration fee.

I am surprised at the omission of TextMate, one of the reasons I switch to the Mac from Linux.

ffmpegX has got to be one the most frustrating apps I’ve ever used. It works fine for awhile, then suddenly stops working. I uninstall all the pieces, re-install, and again it works for awhile, always with the same error message. Many other users report the same error, but no solution ever offered by the authors.

There are many apps on the list that are totally unfamiliar and I am looking forward to checking them out. Thanks for putting this list together!

Lachlan - November 6, 2007 @ 9:33 pm

Chris: Which apps did I miss - especially for Windows switchers? ;)

You missed Fugu, a free FTP client. I haven’t done that much with it, but it looks very well-designed and other people I know really like it.

You missed Intego VirusBarrier, which I think is the best antivirus software for OS X.

You missed Seashore, a simpler and more Mac-native version of the Gimp. It’s the best free graphics software available for OS X that I’ve seen. This is important for switchers because it seems to be really hard to find any free graphics-editing software for Macs—the OS doesn’t even ship with something like MacPaint or MSPaint.

You missed OmniGraffle, which I’ve only used once (at school) because it costs money, but which is a very nice mindmapping program (like Microsoft Visio). Freemind (cross-platform) is a free alternative, but it has the worst user interface of any program I’ve ever used, so it’s not much of an alternative.

Also, I won’t say you missed Vienna (RSS reader), because it probably doesn’t deserve to be on this list, but I like it. So there.

olikenobi - November 6, 2007 @ 9:42 pm

Instead of using Teleport, I prefer Synergy because it works with Windows as well. So I from my Macbook, I can control my Mac Mini and my PC with only one keyboard and one mouse.
That’s probably one of the most amazing softwares I’ve ever found.

ben - November 6, 2007 @ 10:39 pm

Without any explanation it’s hard to find this list useful. A one-liner detailing what the program does would transform it to useful.

Louise - November 6, 2007 @ 11:15 pm

I really think DOT.TUNES should be added to this list.

It’s FREE and very handy for streaming your iTunes tracks to any other computer - even your iPhone or iPod Touch

http://www.dottunes.net

Love
Lou

vik - November 6, 2007 @ 11:24 pm

excellent list.

the one app I felt missing was notebook:
http://www.circusponies.com/
very useful for project based work.

Voodoo - November 6, 2007 @ 11:30 pm

great list…can you set aside another list of freeware/shareware for mac? i know, another project for another time, but a worthy one, at least for me.

Chetan Bhawani - November 6, 2007 @ 11:30 pm

Wow beautiful collection..

I am new to this Mac thing, bought a MacBook couple of months ago and still don’t know most of the things in it.
This list will help me doing some good stuff and work!

Thanks

Jazzdogg - November 6, 2007 @ 11:54 pm

G’day. Connect360 is worth mentioning too… it allows your mac to share files with an Xbox 360 on the network.. that being everything in your iTunes (podcasts, music, purchased tunes (except DRM tracks..) iPhoto and Movie folder. Very neat software… worked well until I upgraded to Leopard. I’m waiting for an update now :-P

Percy - November 6, 2007 @ 11:59 pm

TextMate is a definite requirement for this list. As far as web-developers go, I don’t think there is any one single app other than TextMate that has caused users to switch from Windows. (blog.macromates.com/2007/buy-a-mac-get-textmate/)

Mon Solo - November 7, 2007 @ 12:16 am

Two apps that were not mentioned:

1) Xslimmer
2) Yojimbo

umm, durr... - November 7, 2007 @ 12:18 am

Nice, but– where’s the picture viewer?

Serious Mac users shell out for Graphic Converter.

For free is Toy Viewer.

Andru Edwards - November 7, 2007 @ 12:25 am

Not sure how you missed PopCopy2 (indispensable tool for me) and Cha-Ching for financial management ;) Others in my dock that you don’t have include Transmit, Cocoalicious, ecto, and NetNewsWire.

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Chris - November 7, 2007 @ 12:42 am

Flip4Mac (flip4mac.com) - translates .wmv files so that they will play in QuickTime.

ness - November 7, 2007 @ 12:55 am

Great list, but no Uno :(((((((

Leona - November 7, 2007 @ 1:03 am

Missed one that’s awesome. Specifically FOR people switching from windows!

http://www.itsabouttimeproducts.com/switch_to_mac/

Marvin - November 7, 2007 @ 1:12 am

Pacifist (opens Mac OS X .pkg package files)
Transmit (cool ftp client)
Hex Fiend (hex editor)
Media Rage (MP3 manager/tag editor/etc.)
TextMate (ultimate text editor for OS X)
NetNewsWire (best RSS editor on platform)
HoudahGeo (add geo-information to EXIF data in JPEGs)
Mellel (wp program with some interesting capabilities)

Mathias - November 7, 2007 @ 1:18 am

Hi. Check out xtorrent torrent client. I miss this one in your great list.

guy incognito - November 7, 2007 @ 1:24 am

What about a simple paint program?

I’m yet to find something comparable to MS paint.

TimothyP - November 7, 2007 @ 1:31 am

That’s a very nice list of apps, there are some of them I haven’t heard about before, I’ll have to take a look at them. Thnx, nice work !

Mahenda - November 7, 2007 @ 1:37 am

What about Pixel? It’s the most cheapest alternative to Photoshp on Mac, Linux and Windows. http://www.kanzelsberger.com

peter - November 7, 2007 @ 2:08 am

Nice helpful post. I’ll be investigating ones of interest.

For me one glaring omission typeit4me saves keystrokes and time humunguously.

Peter

Bob M - November 7, 2007 @ 2:24 am

You might want to add Flip4Mac, for converting wmv movies to Quicktime.

Imran - November 7, 2007 @ 2:41 am

Hi,

Great list. But you missed my two faves…
Himmelbar - for accessing the full applications directory in list form
Desktopple - for hiding all the wretched desktop icons

Dan - November 7, 2007 @ 3:15 am

What about Disco?

iTomath - November 7, 2007 @ 3:21 am

Thanks Chris! this is awesome!
Digg it!

Dwight Silverman - November 7, 2007 @ 5:53 am

Two of my faves aren’t here:

– WiFind, from Tasty Apps. Puts more info about Wi-Fi access points in the AirPort menu. Currently doesn’t work with Leopard, though. http://www.tastyapps.com/

– Menu Meters from Raging Menace put system status in the menubar. Macs don’t have disk access lights, so I use it for that. http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

Dwight Silverman - November 7, 2007 @ 5:54 am

Ooops, Menu Meters IS on your list, sorry. Just WiFind then….

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I used to need screen grabs all the time when developing websites and no app does it better than Paparazzi: grabs the entire page, no matter how far you need to vertically or horizontally scroll to view.

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Andri - November 7, 2007 @ 7:18 am

You also missed Peel, get it from getpeel.com

mh - November 7, 2007 @ 7:42 am

Is this supposed to be a list of the best cheap or free apps? I’m a little put off by any “top” Mac application list that omits everything from Omni (for at least OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle) or Panic (Coda, Transmit). Maybe if you “did [your] best to avoid overly popular titles” it’d be better titled as a “top 100 lesser known” mac apps list?

roshan - November 7, 2007 @ 7:58 am

It would be helpful if you tagged or color coded the apps that were freeware.

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Top 10 useful apps for Mac newbies…

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Joe Doe - November 7, 2007 @ 9:16 am

Turbo.264 only works together with the USB dongle that you buy from Elgato. I don’t think it’s fair to include a programme that requires external hardware to simply work.

Reid Ellis - November 7, 2007 @ 9:17 am

Intereting list - I found many useful items. Some of them are pretty frivolous though: ASCII Projecktor??

Jeremy White - November 7, 2007 @ 9:52 am

Why not CrossOver Mac?
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/
Let’s you use some Windows applications without needing
to pay for or use a copy of Windows.

Cheers,

Jeremy

macosilver - November 7, 2007 @ 10:51 am

Burn is missing!!

Francisco - November 7, 2007 @ 10:59 am

My preferred comic book viewer is ComicBook Lover: http://www.bitcartel.com/comicbooklover/

ordered by? - November 7, 2007 @ 11:10 am

could you classify your top ten apps by some kind of categories, like:

- Desktop apps (mac management)
- System Preferences
- Productivity (working offline, photoshop, etc)
- Connection - Internet
- games
- small apps (Dashboard, widgets, etc)
- etc

And also, evaluate or rate each app?

Versiontracker do the same

jimstr - November 7, 2007 @ 11:13 am

Great list - great description, I don’t know why people don’t get it! Thanks

chris - November 7, 2007 @ 12:04 pm

Sorry, Transmit is far superior to Cyberduck. It’s much more stable (in terms of stability, Cyberduck is a joke). It also has tabbed FTP/SFTP browsing.

We do big web development work and rely on Transmit every day. (And pay for it, too.)

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Gunther Dippe - November 7, 2007 @ 1:51 pm

Applejack saved my *** more than once and should be on the list!

Brian - November 7, 2007 @ 2:26 pm

Great list. What is even cooler is the talk it provokes. You always learn about new programs from the list, but about others who comment on it. Everyone has their own preferences in habit.

I, for instance, love Butler because it is free and allows me to emulate the Menu where my mouse is idea from MAYA. That is me. But I see things in QuickSilver and Launchbar that are nice to. In the end it helps everyone keep an eye on what our options are. That is the best.

Thanks for the time you put into it Chris,

Thanks everyone else for your comments.

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Rick - November 8, 2007 @ 12:25 am

MCH: It’s a bit like coming to a clover leaf or an intersection. In the case you cite there are a total of fourteen [14] further links on the click through page. You can go in any one of fourteen [14] different directions. Chris left you with freedom of choice. As you said, it’s a lot of work putting together a list like that. Everyone has to pitch in - yes even the readers.

mh: This is his opinion. Obviously. He ‘thinks different’.

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Alex - November 8, 2007 @ 6:03 am

You ***!!!!!!, I have to say this is a profoundly unhelpful post. In most cases the name and icon don’t even give me a clue what kind of app it is. So to learn about your whole list, I have to click 100 links. Some of those clicks take me to landing pages which in turn don’t offer me a clue.
Alex from Russia

Alex - November 8, 2007 @ 6:05 am

You fаg !!!!!!, I have to say this is a profoundly unhelpful post. In most cases the name and icon don’t even give me a clue what kind of app it is. So to learn about your whole list, I have to click 100 links. Some of those clicks take me to landing pages which in turn don’t offer me a clue.
Alex from Russia

Hotrodder - November 8, 2007 @ 6:27 am

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Kara@Roxio - November 8, 2007 @ 11:46 am

Chris,
Thanks for including Roxio’s products in your top 100.
Best,

Kara @ Roxio

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ERT - November 9, 2007 @ 5:52 am

AppTrap - app to trash with related files

a gindin - November 9, 2007 @ 6:19 am

next time use a smaller font and save a tree. thanks eeb

Seth Nephesh - November 9, 2007 @ 9:14 am

Great list Chris. I am always impressed with what you find. I kinda did the same thing on my site. Although, It is a mix of software for a variety of platforms.. Mostly FOSS. I am not linking it in this post though, this is your show and I am not a spammer :) I did leave the link in the URL box above if you want to check it out.

Ed Gelb - November 9, 2007 @ 9:43 am

Please look at Zooom ( http://coderage-software.com/zooom/)

Zooom allows you to set up keyboard shortcuts for moving and resizing any window from any place in the window.

There is no need to go to the title bar with the cursor to move the window or to the bottom right corner of the window to resize the window. Both can be done from any where in the window.

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Dezmon - November 9, 2007 @ 3:54 pm

I dig it

Dezmon - November 9, 2007 @ 4:01 pm

love iT

Matt Keever (Keeves) - November 9, 2007 @ 9:40 pm

Digg it!

katrin - November 10, 2007 @ 7:54 am

The people who like OmniGraffle clearly are better artists than I am–not hard, to be sure. What I am looking at is a replacement for MacDraw–simple, decent interface, easy to use. Color would be nice but not necessary.

yahoo sucks - November 10, 2007 @ 2:04 pm

I can’t believe you don’t include Little Snitch — a must have app in this day and age of sneaky hidden and phone-home applets

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ChrizDee - November 11, 2007 @ 1:23 pm

Nice! Thx a lot!

Andrew Calvert - November 11, 2007 @ 1:51 pm

I stumbled this! Great List!
I’m still a noobie to mac. I have only had mine for 8 months; i’m never goning back!!!!!

You also might like to add FileZilla for mac; its a free FTP clients from mozilla that allow drag and drop up and down loads to your server. Very user friendly.

Devin - November 15, 2007 @ 9:44 pm

I have almost everyone of these programs! nice list!

matt - November 17, 2007 @ 9:02 am

hi, my name’s matt, and i used to be a windows user.

i still can’t find a decent replacement for winamp. i’ve tried vlc, cog, audacity (i think), and am bored. please help. PLEASE!

Jack - November 18, 2007 @ 10:27 am

matt: Have you seen these programs, which sort of look like Winamp?

The basic: MacAMP
http://www.mac.org/audio-video/macamp/

Better (I think): Audion 3
http://www.panic.com/audion/

drcshine - November 19, 2007 @ 12:32 am

Wooo, nice Mac software list, bookmark it. But for DVD Ripper, I always use Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac to copy DVD to my computer, my friends recommend it to me, it works great, I think it should be added to the Mac list
http://www.aimersoft.com/dvd-ripper-for-mac.html

Bobbah - November 19, 2007 @ 7:45 am

Great programs!! Thank you Chris!!
More please!!
This Grandma is a cyber geek!!

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HuskerMn - November 28, 2007 @ 6:33 am

The lack of Graphic Converter demonstrates Chris’ lack of Mac history. I’ve been using it since version 1 in OS 8 something. Great image editor that gets better with every release.

Manas - January 17, 2008 @ 1:38 pm

Top Mac OS X Leopard Apps…

I guess we all have our own list of Mac Apps, here’s mine:
Firefox - The only browser that matters. ‘Nuff said.
Adium - Multiple IM support. Wish it supported video
iCal - The funnest calendar app and its free from Apple
NetNewsWire - …

Teenburg - February 2, 2008 @ 5:07 am

1passwd Mac OS X Password Manager with AutoFill that leverages the OS X Keychain and provides built-in support for most browsers.

Corbin - February 4, 2008 @ 5:14 pm

That’s really cool. I wish that some of those apps were free :(. Oh well. Must’v taken a long time to put this whole thing together.

Outsanity - February 5, 2008 @ 11:14 pm

i learned about this program from a friend for Mac.
http://www.pixelmator.com/

it’s kinda like Photoshop but cheaper (yeah, you have to pay)

cesar - February 6, 2008 @ 10:59 am

XShelf make the Drop Stack function of Cocoatech Pathfinder! So you could stay in mac Finder (that is better for me). :)

BillGill - March 9, 2008 @ 9:02 am

PEEL - the greatest Mac MP3 blog reader and player - worth every penny, I don’t understand how this isn’t at the head of every list since it lets you get and capture a daily dose of new music. Try it, you’ll love it guaranteed. Bill

Redun77 - March 14, 2008 @ 7:35 am

Hello,

I would like to see Mozilla Firefox and perhaps OpenOffice.org which is a free open-source office suite.

Thanks!

intelmac - March 14, 2008 @ 7:41 pm

Thanks for the list Chris!

I use about 1/2 of all the apps here thanks to you!

arkivaren - March 16, 2008 @ 3:12 pm

Nice and interesting list indeed, as are (most of) the comments.

A couple of omissions if you ask me though :)
1) BBEdit: the best editor there is IMO (offers an educational discount too)
2) Script debugger: Sublime applescripting tool (but pricy)
3) Omniweb: Featurerich web browser.
4) Thoth: my preferred usenet reader (not being developed anymore though)
5) Path finder: like Finder but better.
6) Devonthink: information management system.
7) JournalX: like above but cheaper (doesn’t have applescripting support though)
8) MS Office 2008 :)

Regards
Arkivaren

Tekno_boy - March 22, 2008 @ 6:37 am

I like that so much, I added it to my own blog: