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Favourite/Useful Mac Apps
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  Jul 31 2006, 09:37 AM
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 Allegedly Legendary  Group: Staff Posts: 834 Joined: 26-July 06 From: Fort Wayne, Indiana Member No.: 7  |
As more and more people migrate to Mac computers, I thought it'd be nice if we start listing the applications we use; where we got them (turn the name into the link), what its used for (briefly), and what they cost.
I'll edit this post to keep a running list going to give us a great resource. Favourite/Useful Mac Applications: Internet Apps & Utilities
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Jul 31 2006, 02:02 PM
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Allegedly Legendary Group: Staff Posts: 834 Joined: 26-July 06 From: Fort Wayne, Indiana Member No.: 7 |
reserved for expansion
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Aug 1 2006, 03:41 PM
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W.R. Private  Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 1-August 06 Member No.: 22 |
Some people consider Yahoo Wigets very much crap. But I think it does have a few very useful tools that can be used to place information on your desktop.
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Aug 1 2006, 03:50 PM
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Allegedly Legendary Group: Staff Posts: 834 Joined: 26-July 06 From: Fort Wayne, Indiana Member No.: 7 |
QUOTE(PKKid @ Aug 1 2006, 04:41 PM)  Some people consider Yahoo Wigets very much crap. But I think it does have a few very useful tools that can be used to place information on your desktop. http://widgets.yahoo.com/ *updated above* Thanks! -------------------- Writings about everything related to your web design business.
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Aug 3 2006, 06:51 PM
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Allegedly Legendary Group: Staff Posts: 834 Joined: 26-July 06 From: Fort Wayne, Indiana Member No.: 7 |
*Added skEdit to the list
Original thread: skEdit Text Editor. This post has been edited by JPMitchell: Aug 3 2006, 06:56 PM -------------------- Writings about everything related to your web design business.
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Aug 4 2006, 07:49 AM
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 Argh!  Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Texas Member No.: 37 |
You should add Parallels Desktop, cause well if you got an intel mac it is the shiznilly.
I agree with your list as well but would like to also mention: Butler Transmit 3 CSSEdit Color Schemer Studio iSnip Not sure if it is still being developed though. Dragthing This post has been edited by moojoo: Aug 4 2006, 08:24 AM -------------------- Its not girly, its web 2.0!
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Aug 9 2006, 09:27 AM
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Allegedly Legendary Group: Staff Posts: 834 Joined: 26-July 06 From: Fort Wayne, Indiana Member No.: 7 |
Thanks moojo, they have been added (except parrallels, as I want to look it it first).
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Aug 10 2006, 11:18 AM
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Argh! Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Texas Member No.: 37 |
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Aug 10 2006, 12:20 PM
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Allegedly Legendary Group: Staff Posts: 834 Joined: 26-July 06 From: Fort Wayne, Indiana Member No.: 7 |
QUOTE(moojoo @ Aug 10 2006, 12:18 PM) *updated on the master list* -- Thanks. -------------------- Writings about everything related to your web design business.
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Aug 11 2006, 05:07 PM
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 W.R. General  Group: Administrators Posts: 2,799 Joined: 4-April 06 From: Massachusetts - USA Member No.: 5 |
Say you have Mail open, and a New Message window that you're typing in, and maybe yet another separate window for an email you're reading. That's three Mail related windows.
Then, over in your web browser, something grabs your attention. Once that's overwith, you want to come back to your Mail window. So, you cmd+tab back to Mail, then you have to cmd+~ through the three Mail related windows until you get back to the exact one you were working with prior to jumping over to your browser. Wouldn't it be nice if the task switcher (cmd+tab) not only showed you your open apps, but all your open windows? Ahh, I love Mac developers: Witch -------------------- |
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Aug 11 2006, 06:53 PM
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Allegedly Legendary Group: Staff Posts: 834 Joined: 26-July 06 From: Fort Wayne, Indiana Member No.: 7 |
*added* Thanks Marc!
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Aug 24 2006, 08:39 AM
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Argh! Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Texas Member No.: 37 |
One I forgot and I feel so bad I did! if you have a Macbook or Macbook pro or any apple laptop with Bluetooth and a blue tooth enabled phone you must, must, must have Blue Phone Elite! and Sailing Clicker which lets you use your phone as a remote for your computer Mac/Win.
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Aug 24 2006, 02:32 PM
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Allegedly Legendary Group: Staff Posts: 834 Joined: 26-July 06 From: Fort Wayne, Indiana Member No.: 7 |
Thanks... updating the master list now!
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Aug 29 2006, 09:49 AM
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Argh! Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Texas Member No.: 37 |
Two more for the list. They are not necessarily useful unless you are into each sort of thing. I used to use deskshade and it does have some handy features like a "Hacker Log" which shows attempts complete with time stamp of attempted logins etc. And App Zapper which is not necessarily anything that couldn't be done with spotlight but if you are like me you try out all kinds of freeware and shareware apps and it does make the process of removing them zippy.
Deskshade 2 Deskshade allow syou to hide your desktop icons, set a movie as the background, lock your computer up tight and supports drag/drop of images from the web etc to your own personal menu item storage space. It also allows full access to iPhoto etc. Pretty handy. App Zapper App Zapper basically just removes the app and its associated files i.e. prefs, caches etc. Just quick. This post has been edited by moojoo: Aug 29 2006, 09:53 AM -------------------- Its not girly, its web 2.0!
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Aug 29 2006, 01:45 PM
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Allegedly Legendary Group: Staff Posts: 834 Joined: 26-July 06 From: Fort Wayne, Indiana Member No.: 7 |
*master list updated* Thanks again moojoo
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Sep 1 2006, 10:34 AM
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W.R. General Group: Administrators Posts: 2,799 Joined: 4-April 06 From: Massachusetts - USA Member No.: 5 |
Thread cleaned up, Favorite Apps sorted alphabetically and categorized.
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Sep 1 2006, 12:52 PM
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Argh! Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Texas Member No.: 37 |
More of what doesn't Butler do. Link here to info. As for CocoaMySQL Here ya go:
CocoaMySQL is an application used to manage MySQL databases (locally or over the internet). It lets you add and remove databases and tables, change fields and indexes, view and filter the content of tables, add, edit and remove rows, perform custom queries and dump tables or entire databases. -------------------- Its not girly, its web 2.0!
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Sep 2 2006, 06:48 PM
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 Pedantic Whinger  Group: Members Posts: 237 Joined: 1-August 06 From: Southampton, UK Member No.: 23 |
QUOTE(moojoo @ Sep 1 2006, 06:52 PM) More of what doesn't Butler do. Link here to info. As for CocoaMySQL Here ya go: CocoaMySQL is an application used to manage MySQL databases (locally or over the internet). It lets you add and remove databases and tables, change fields and indexes, view and filter the content of tables, add, edit and remove rows, perform custom queries and dump tables or entire databases. From my limited experience, I prefer YourSQL to CocoaMySQL, but I guess it's just a matter of personal taste
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Sep 11 2006, 11:07 AM
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Argh! Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Texas Member No.: 37 |
TextWrangler is another freebie. It is basically BBEdit lite.
"TextWrangler is considerably more modern and capable than BBEdit Lite. Among other things, it can open files from (and save them) to remote FTP servers, offers a significantly more powerful grep engine, supports multi-byte and non-Roman text files, can perform Find Differences on pairs of files, and can be invoked from the Unix command line." This post has been edited by moojoo: Sep 11 2006, 11:08 AM -------------------- Its not girly, its web 2.0!
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Oct 12 2006, 04:22 PM
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