Mac OSX applications that I use¶

Colloquy

IRC client

Cyberduck

Ftp, sftp, webdav, s3 etc. client

DoubleTake

Stitches panoramic photos together

Carbon emacs

My emacs client of choice for the mac

Firefox

Well, yes, of course!

Flip4mac

Helper application for playing wmv movies

Geotagger

Open a location in google earth; drag photo from iphoto to the geotagger icon; the location gets set in the photo’s metadata. The easiest way I’ve found for adding geocoding to photos.

Gimp

Image editor. It runs within Xwindows, so it isn’t optimal from a mac viewpoint. With focus-follows-mouse in a recent Xwindows it is quite workable, though.

Google earth

Great app for a map lover like me

Handbrake

Converts extracted DVDs (from MacTheRipper) to movie files. Handy way of viewing DVDs borrowed from my brother. Or even my own DVDs if the mandatory “don’t copy this” message at the start of the movie irritates me. And especially for viewing my own DVDs on the iphone (using the iphone preset).

iDefrag

Harddisk defragmentation utility for the mac. A good defrag once every few months helps with your laptop’s speed.

iShowU

Records a movie of your screen, essential for screencasts.

iTerm

Better terminal than osx’ own Terminal.

MacTheRipper

Rips DVDs to your harddisk. I use it in combination with Handbrake. Great way to watch my own DVDs in the train on my iphone.

Mouseposé

Nice for screencasts: highlights the cursor location, shows keystrokes.

NetNewsWire

I read blogs, so I need NetNewsWire! Great tool

Openoffice

Logically

PictureSync

Syncs from iphoto to smugmug (and flickr)

Skype

I use it about once every 4 months. Great for phoning home when I’m at a sprint or conference. And I occasionally use it for international phonecalls with other developers (Canada, Hungary, Argentinia in the last year).

Tinyalarm

Small and simple timer or alarmclock. Just a small icon in your menu bar. Great.

Transmission

Bittorrent client. Handy for downloading ubuntu for the other computer at home and for ancient television series that aren’t for sale in the Netherlands.

Syrinx

Displays my twitter feeds. Currently I only use it for quickly posting something, I do my reading on the iphone.

VLC

Yeah, this video player plays everything. Everything, I tell you.

MenuMeters

Set of handy small meters for in your menu bar. Up/download rate, memory usage, cpu usage, disk usage.