My Mac Apps

I’ve occasionally been asked about and benefited from summaries of preferred Mac / OSX applications. Here are mine:

• Mac the Ripper DVD Ripping
• Handbrake DVD encoding
• Adium IM Client
• Skitch Lightweight graphic tool
• TweetDeck Twitter client and search engine
• Psst Stops or lowers volume of the loud bong chime from firing at startup.
• Cyberduck Secure file transfer client
• Stuffit Unarchiver
• DivX Player for Macs lets QuickTime play films, HD, etc.
• Carbon Copy Cloner Backups and migrations
• Chicken of the VNC Remote desktop client.
• TextMate Text editor / IDE ~$52
• 1Password $40 handles all your password management
• Text Expander Autotyping manager.
• iTap Mac kb/mouse tool for iPhone
• Adobe Photoshop Elements Photo/graphics editor
• VLC Media player
• Transmission Bittorent client
• Pure Tools Flash panorama generator
• Omnigraffle $99 diagraming application
• Perian QuickTime utilities
• Growl System message/notification subsystem
• Flip4Mac Play WMV media files