Apple - Essential Applications

[phoenix198]

Showing my darkside here, but Tomato is not a bad freeware torrent client, and Speed Downloader 4 is a nice download manager. SD4 is shareware though...
X-Chat Aqua is also good for IRC

vailable as

SD4 is on the MacWorld covermount CD/DVD this month along with iVolume 2.5 and Mac pilot 2.5

[phoenix198]

iSquint 1.52 is a worthwhile download - converts .flv files to .mp4 (iPod or TV optimised) for all those YouTube or similar downloads

[Quack]

Transmission - best bittorrent app by far.

Also Burn - fantastic dvd burning app - free and almost as good as Toast.

[Potts]

Don't flame me, but 'VMWare Fusion' - just for a quick and convenient way to get into those couple of legacy Windows apps.

[Steve B]

Transmission - best bittorrent app by far.

Transmission is nothing compared to uTorrent

[Zaneblade]

has coda been mentioned yet?
for web development its fantastic

[abaxas]

http://www.activata.co.uk/ifreemem/

Sadly it costs but this little app forces all your apps into swap, hence frees up memory.

Very useful if you use lots of applications and your memory is already maxed !

[cigbunt]

iplayer grabber - download bbc videos and save them as mov.

adium - all in 1 messenger msn/icq/aol etc plus facebook!!

inquisitor - replace safafi search bar with another search engine eg uk google instead of .com

[cowboy1969]

handbrake
transmission
coversultra

[thomswalwell]

i think that macs are really great for every day use, but cant beat a pc for games. there is too limited support for games on the mac, let alone games released are not as many as the pc.

i use a mac for web, photo editing etc, but mainly for that stuff which is not gaming.

i have a pc for that...........

and an xbox 360....


Thom

[Marcos]

i think that macs are really great for every day use, but cant beat a pc for games. there is too limited support for games on the mac, let alone games released are not as many as the pc.

i use a mac for web, photo editing etc, but mainly for that stuff which is not gaming.

i have a pc for that...........

and an xbox 360....


Thom

i hear what you're saying but...doesnt bootcamp sort of fix that problem?

my friend introduced me to the new line of MBP and showed me CoD4 and GTA4 running on XP on a 15" MBP, so whats the problem?




Also, it would be cool if someone could edit the first post with a more up-to-date and relevant list of essential applications, that first post 2 years old. I only just got my Mac and would love to get veteran's advice on what apps to use

[jamesjmorton]

Plex - great media centre application.

Will play *anything*

[Marcos]

Im gonna try that out, so it'll play RM, MOV, WMV, DivX and MV etc too?

[Shooty*]

Just installed right Click on my dad's macbook pro. When he maximised, it would not PROPERLY expand the windows (safari, word, etc). Now it does.

I've installed plex and had a play. Prefer Mediabrowser on a PC at the moment, but am going to install the aeon skin and have a proper fiddle with it.

[deathbyscience]

Hard to pin down my most essential apps, but there are a few that don't seem to have been mentioned yet...

Evernote: An application that can take notes or ideas from just about any source and store them in a simple-to-use email style interface. Absolutely essential for keeping notes organized around the office

Cinch: A dead simple app for adding a Windows Snap style function to Windows. Drag to the left to resize a window to that side, the same for the right, or the top to maximize

[Marcos]

I need a good tutorial vid on Evernote, i keep hearing its good but whenever i try and use it i dont get far