My OS X suite of applications

shyam - Posted on 01 December 2008

It can be a real problem for people who are new to OS X to find the right software to get their routine work done.

To help such people along a bit, I am posting a list of software that I use on a daily basis.

In the first installment, I am going to post the average-Joe list and will be tackling the development platform list in a later post.

First up, the the applications that don't come with your OS X install.

Product	Comments
Truecrypt	To keep all the data safe on an encrypted volume.
Lynx	Text-only internet. See how a bot will see your pages. - Install from source - do "sudo mkdir /usr/local/etc" - do "cp lynx.cfg /usr/local/etc" - do "cp lynx.lss /usr/local/etc" You are good to go
Virtualbox	Excellent Virtual Machine software. For those times when you have to get a Windows Machine to get stuff done.
Adobe Air	Adobe's runtime software.
Cog	iTunes is a godawful piece of crap. Cog is a minimalistic player like Foobar on Windows
Last.fm	OS X client for scrobbling and listening to some excellent free music.
Twhirl	Twitter client that runs on Adobe Air.
VLC Media Player	Why install a zillion codecs when VLC will play them out-of-the-box for you?
Wget for OS X	The BEST download manager, what is even better is that it runs on the command line.
Eclipse PDT	The PHP development IDE with the integrated debugger, based on Eclipse.
Subeclipse	The Subversion plugin for Eclipse PDT
Filezilla	The client that does FTP, SFTP and a few more protocols.
Adium	Integrated IM client for OS X
Camino	My default browser. Stable and plays nice with RAM usage. All the other browsers are a massive FAIL on this front.
Dropbox	Backup in the cloud. All working documents are saved here.
Ecto *	A good blogging client for OS X.
Mindnode	For all the mind mapping needs
iWork *	The productivity suite from Apple. Cheaper than Microsoft Office 2008.
Neoffice	iWork can result in fidelity losses on certain MS Office docs. Neooffice is for situations like that.
Firefox	Used to be my favourite browser till a week ago. But consumes RAM like an alcoholic at an open bar. Now deported to debugging and development land.
Opera	For testing purposes only.
Seashore	OS X freeware image editor, based on GIMP's code. I am not a heavy graphics user, so this does the trick for me, and more.
Utorrent	The awesome bittorrent client now makes its appearance in OS X finally.
JIng Project	For all screen capturing needs.
*	Denotes non-free software.