My top ten Mac Apps

07 Dec, 2007

I have begin using my mac for a while now and have found some apps to be so useful and if you are new to mac then you will be looking for some good software for you to use for certain tasks.

  1. iWork is definitely the best office package I have used and way cheaper than Microsoft’s Office
  2. Pixelmator the cheap alternative to photoshop
  3. VLC the only video player that plays everything
  4. Cyber Duck the best free FTP client
  5. Skype the only way to do VOIP
  6. Flickr Uploader
  7. Ecto I did try MarsEdit2 but just found Ecto to be more user friendly
  8. Twitterific the best way to tweet!
  9. You Contol Tunes a menu bar app that lets you control iTunes really helpful now I use spaces
  10. Caffeine to keep you mac awake when watching video’s

Now you know what I like, these have changed from what I thought I would use which could be good or bad but on whole most of these apps are great for what I do. I suggest you try some of them.

Category: Apple 3 Comments »

3 Comments

  • Chris Leigh says:
    December 7, 2007 at 3:54 pm

    This is great – but not sure about CyberDuck. And got to install Skype.

    What about flip4Mac? and ffmpegx for all that video conversion – should solve the problem of importing .mod files from the JVC cam that are sitting on my hard drive (deleted from the camera). And my most useful application which is Galerie for doing my web photo galleries.

  • Chris Thomson says:
    January 12, 2008 at 12:20 am

    I must agree with you on iWork. I really don’t know why anyone uses Mac Office anymore (although, we’ll have to see how Mac Office 2008 is). Flickr Uploadr is nice, but version 3 is well, the worst version yet. Even now that its final, lots of people are having problems with it, and I just think the interface looks a tad childish. I feel the opposite about Ecto and MarsEdit, I love MarsEdit! And well, for Twitterrific, its nice, but a bit buggy (it uses a LOT of RAM when refreshing in v3. v2 and v1 were better (if only they included inline DMs)). I like Snitter for some reason, although AIR is getting to me…

  • rmaspero says:
    January 12, 2008 at 7:28 am

    @Chris Thomson Yer I know what you mean on Office of Mac but I find Ecto more user friendly and I know a bit of HTML so MarsEdit should come naturally but I find it to complicated and like Ecto’s simplicity.