#MacOSX

A List of my own: All the browsers (Chrome, FF, Opera)

Adium for Instant messaging
Lightroom for photograph workflow
Textwrangler for coding
OmmWriter for creative writing
MacFuse
OpenOffice for those painful moments of office works
Inkscape feels snappier on Linux, a bit painfully slow for drawing via mosx and X11

What else for everything? :)

Couple of nice ones in the short-lived "100 good apps" thread. Also "what should a new Mac user try". Both in Finnish.

I use
- Adium
- Textmate for all-around text editing, HTML and occasional coding
- VLC for DVD and video viewing
- TweetDeck & Tweetie
- RescueTime as a hour reporting "backup" in case I forget to keep track
- PasswordSafe
- LimeChat for IRC
- Alarm Clock for waking me up
- WMware Fusion to run the other OS

@mandrl Thanks for the pointers in Qaiku. Hard disk keeps filling with new software:)

• Evernote for notes (and syncing them between other machines/web-service/phone), the free version is quite useable
• MacLoc for quick lockdown
• Caffeine for Mac for keeping the Mac from falling asleep.
• Filezilla for FTP, SFTP
• Namely for quick launching apps (some like more complex Quicksilver better)
• SugarSync for online backups (2 gigs for free, premium is worth paying for IMHO)

My findings today:

• Alarm Clock - for creating stopwatches, alarm clocks and timers
• Growl - for getting all kinds of notifications
• App Cleaner - Uninstalling cleanly software (something which should be OOB functions of MOSX)
• AppFresh - Detects installed software and upgrades them
• Burn - CD Burning utility
• Coconut Battery - Estimates the condition of your MacBooks battery
• iTerm - better terminal software
• MacFuse and MacFusion - for mounting FUSE filesystems like sftp
• OmmWriter - Simple text writer which hides all the unnecessary stuff. Simply Beautiful!
• SMARTReporter - Watches SMART errors from hard disk. A Must!
• smcFanControl - gives control to set manually the RPMs of the fans. Keeps this MBP 20 degrees cooler when set to full RPMs instead of moobooking
• Vienna - Rss reader.
• Virtual Box - free virtualization environment

1Password - invaluable Password management
Airfoil - App for streaming your music to remote speakers provided that they are properly hooked up.
LimeChat - IRC client
LittleSnapper - Screencapture software
ShoveBox - For quickly capturing thoughts
QuickSilver - Best launcher app
Parallels - Virtualization software
VMWare Fusion - Better virtualization software
NetNewsWire - RSS reader
The Hit List - To Do software
QuickCursor - Allows you to open textareas (and the like) in your favorite editor inside cocoa apps
Spotify - Music streaming
Times - another RSS reader
TinyGrab - quick capture/post screencapture software
Transmit - Best FTP app
WriteRoom - Great writing software, helps you focus on what you are doing
Twitterific - Yet Another Twitter app.

Some smaller installs:

• iStat Pro - a dashboard widget to monitor CPU, Memory, Disks, Temp, Batteryhealth, Fans, Network, simple
• Isolator - a menu bar app, that lets you easily black out everyhing but the active program windows.
• SlimBattery Monitor - Gives a cleaner time-only batterylife display alternative to the OS X's default shows symbol + time (this installs as a another idicator, you can cmd-drag the original off the menu)

• iStat nano widget
• VLC
• Google Earth

@erkka You don't need MacLoc. You can put the padlock to the apple bar and it can lock the screen.

@Sinuhesieda: Thanks! Didn't know I can get that one up there. <nillitys>Hmm. Using the menu bar solution takes 2 clicks and MacLoc takes only one plus it doesn't clutter the menu bar. </nillitys> But still your solution is one app less to install :) Have try them both in action and see which one is better.

@trm smcFanControl seems quite useful, thanks :)

@Erkka, if you're using screensaver lock you can set start screensaver on on corner via exposé (eg. mine starts when I take the cursor to top left corner while holding command). No clicks or menubar clutter this way ;)

@rahina: That could be useful as the +cmd eliminates accidental lockdowns. Gotta try. Thanks :)

@Erkka, you can also add delay (eg. 5 seconds) for lock down. But I've noticed combination of these (some modifier key and delay) is the best: there are so many times I realize "damn, I forgot to do X", and with the 5s delay I don't have to type in the password again.