Useful Mac software

[ronin]

Not sure if this has been done but was thinking perhaps we can haf a sticky post on useful mac softwares that worth recommending to the community to use. Softwares to make the life on the mac easier (it's already quite easy actually heheh).

Consolidated links contributed by various users of this thread:


Useful Mac Software
OnyX - System maintenance (freeware)
Transmit - FTP (shareware)
Cocktail - System Maintenance (shareware)

BluePhoneElite 1.1
DeskShade Plus 2.0.3
iKey - automation/Hotkey
GraphicConverter - graphic
Cocktail - System maintenance
GPG - encryption
Menu calendar : Calendar in ur menubar that integrates with iCal
F10 launch Studio : another COOL app launcher
Shadow Clipboard : Huge clipboard on ur menubar
Salling Clicker - controlling your Mac with BT phone
httpmail plugin - reading Hotmail in Mail.app
PDF Browser Plugin - reading PDF straight in Safari
iStumbler - searching for WiFi Hotspot
SideTrack - Additional function for your thumbpad on your laptop
QuickSilver - Free Launcher
Beholder - pic searcher
PureFTPd manager - FTP manager
Imagewell - Simple image resizer with many capabilities
Smultron
Silverkeeper - Automates backups to external storage devices. (Free)
OSXPM - A Cocoa OS X Package Manager.
ShapeShifter to enable replacing desktop themes.
Mighty Mouse allows you to customise your cursors with style...
Fruitmenu is a little program that allows you to customise your Apple and contextual menus.
Konfabulator for widgets, similar to Dashboard for Tiger.
CandyBar to utilise iContainers and easy replacement of system icons.
Silk enables the Quartz text rendering and smoothing introduced in Mac OS X 10.1.5 in all Carbon applications.

Newsreaders
Netnewswire - the incumbent, but is facing good competition now from
Shrook and
Pulpfiction

[kokooi]

I think the following are useful:
(sharewares)
iKey - automation/Hotkey
GraphicConverter - graphic
Cocktail - System maintenance
(Freeware)
GPG - encryption

[imacbie]

All sharewares :

Menu calendar : Calendar in ur menubar that integrates with iCal
F10 launch Studio : another COOL app launcher
Shadow Clipboard : Huge clipboard on ur menubar


Cheers
Tedâ„¢

[MacBiff]

Salling Clicker - controlling your Mac with BT phone

httpmail plugin - reading Hotmail in Mail.app

PDF Browser Plugin - reading PDF straight in Safari

iStumbler - searching for WiFi Hotspot

SideTrack - Additional function for your thumbpad on your laptop

QuickSilver - Free Launcher

... plus many many more

[Alucard]

Beholder - pic searcher
PureFTPd manager - FTP manager
Imagewell - Simple image resizer with many capabilities
 

[ronin]

Anyway to turn this into a stickie? heh

[imacbie]

Anyway to turn this into a stickie? heh

Request frm mods.

Tedâ„¢

[kokooi]

Anyway to turn this into a stickie? heh

If you use Safari, select the text that you want and then go to Safari menu, click it, look for Services>Make New Stickies Note.
That's all.

[imacbie]

Anyway to turn this into a stickie? heh

If you use Safari, select the text that you want and then go to Safari menu, click it, look for Services>Make New Stickies Note.
That's all.

Um .. I suppose he's trying to make this thread a sticky of this section ..  

Tedâ„¢

[ronin]

LOL, sorry for the confusion. I meant to turn this thread into a stickie.

[kokooi]

LOL, sorry for the confusion. I meant to turn this thread into a stickie.

I suppose stickie can mean different thing to different people. Sorry, 4 the misunderstanding.

[theTelepath]

Poisoned

[ronin]

One more software to the list

Freeware
Smultron

Smultron is an open-source text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X Panther with many of the features that you might need. It features easy selection of the opened documents, line numbers, support for syntax colouring for many different languages, support for text encodings, code snippets, a toolbar, a status bar, HTML preview, multi-document find and replace with regular expressions, possibility to show invisible characters, authenticated saves, command-line utility and many more features.


*It's got syntax highlighting for quite a couple of scripts and code languages.

[sleepyhead]

Poisoned

Poisoned was great till Xfactor came along

[odise]

try this link
Brad Choate OS X Software Inventory
http://bradchoate.com/weblog/2004/04/14/inventory.php

[andre]

-Quicksilver (launcher app)
-MenuMeters
-Fire (IM app)
-Smultron (multi-purpose text editor)
-VLC
-Mplayer
-Firefox

[spaniard]

I think the following are useful:
(sharewares)
iKey - automation/Hotkey
GraphicConverter - graphic
Cocktail - System maintenance
(Freeware)
GPG - encryption

What exactly is a graphicsconverter?

[imacbie]

What exactly is a graphicsconverter?

it converts the format of ur pictures ..

Ted

[Fred]

Silverkeeper - Automates backups to external storage devices. (Free)

[shinkansen]

OSXPM - A Cocoa OS X Package Manager. GPL software, downloadable from Apple or the usual Mac software repository sites - Versiontracker and MacUpdate.

I didn't realise how many versions of Bluetooth Software (and other packages) I had lurking in my system.