{"id":245,"date":"2006-11-17T16:22:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T21:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wwco.com\/~wls\/blog\/walts-os-x-software-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2006-11-17T16:22:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T21:22:45","slug":"walts-os-x-software-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/walts-os-x-software-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Walt’s OS X Software Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got a Mac? Here’s Walt’s list of software you just gotta have. Some is free, some costs a small fortune, but all of it is worth it.<\/p>\n

If you know of any others that you use often, are of high quality, and simply represent the best of the best of your favorites, please drop me a line at wls@wwco.com<\/A>.<\/p>\n


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PRODUCTIVITY<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Quicksilver<\/STRONG>
\nHot keys and events trigger different actions on your computer. Never require the use of the dock to open an application again.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Speed Download<\/STRONG>
\nDownload software super fast, resume if dropped, and peer share once you have it.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Carbon Copy Cloner<\/STRONG>
\nDuplicate your drive, making a bootable, live backup.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Parallels<\/STRONG>
\nWindows, DOS, Linux and other operating systems on your Macintosh under OS X.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>
\n		Toast<\/STRONG>
\nBurn CDs and DVD and make disc images for data, music, images, and videos.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Virtue<\/STRONG>
\nWonderful virtual desktop software with many effects and customizable hot keys.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>iClip<\/STRONG>
\nMultiple clipboard and scrapbooks.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Disk Inventory<\/STRONG>
\nScans your hard disk looking for large files.<\/TD><\/TR>
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SECURITY<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Peer Guardian<\/STRONG>
\nOutbound firewall that prevents applications from accessing the internet, whether to control worms or to stop them from phoning home.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Tor & Privoxy & Vidalia<\/STRONG>
\nAnonymous networking and browsing.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>iStumbler<\/STRONG>
\nSee what wireless networks are available and use the information to prevent drops by choosing unused channels.<\/TD><\/TR>
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PHOTOGRAPHY, DIGITAL EDITING, AND WEB ALBUMS<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Aperture<\/STRONG>
\nManage tens of thousands of digital pictures instantly: download from your camera, organize them, perform non-destructive editing on them, extensive color correction, make many versions, export to different formats while resizing, build web pages, give slide shows, make books, and so much more… Raw formats supported.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Photoshop<\/STRONG>
\nThe defacto-standard for 2D pixel editing of just about every image format there is. Handles layers, color corrections, and automated workflows.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Picasa<\/STRONG>
\nUpload web photos right from disk or from iPhoto, making web albums instantly.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>JAlbum<\/STRONG>
\nTotally customizable web album generator.<\/TD><\/TR>
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MULTIMEDIA: Players and Converters<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Quicktime Pro<\/STRONG>
\nPlay, record, edit, and convert video and audio.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>VLC Media Player<\/STRONG>
\nPlay and stream video in quite a number of formats.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>MPlayer<\/STRONG>
\nPlay many different video formats.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Popcorn<\/STRONG>
\nConvert and upload videos from disk and DVDs into the iPod, PlayStation Portable (PSP), and 3GP phone.<\/TD><\/TR>
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<\/A><\/TD>VisualHub<\/STRONG>
\nUniversal video converter for iPod, PSP, DV, DVD, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, Flash, and TiVo.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>iSquint<\/STRONG>
\nConvert video to play on the iPod.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>HandBrake<\/STRONG>
\nBackup commercial DVDs that you’ve purchased, or portions of them, to hard disk where you can use the above applications.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Mac The Ripper<\/STRONG>
\nBackup commercial DVDs that you’ve purchased, or portions of them, to hard disk where you can use the above applications.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Senuti<\/STRONG>
\nBeam content on your iPod back to your computer.<\/TD><\/TR>
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OFFICE APPLICATIONS<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Open Office<\/STRONG>
\nWord Processor (Writer), Presentation Tool (Impress), Equation Editor (Math), Drawing Tool (Draw), Spreadsheet (Calc), Database (Base) — all Microsoft compatible and all beautifully integrated.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>OmniGraffle Pro<\/STRONG>
\nAn amazing full featured drawing tool that blows the socks off Visio.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>OmniOutliner Pro<\/STRONG>
\nFantasic graphical outliner and list manager.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>OmniPlan<\/STRONG>
\nProject management software. Manage tasks, resources, and schedules using Gantt charts, calendars, and other tools, producing reports and data that can be exchanged with Microsoft Project.<\/TD><\/TR>
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PROGRAMMING TOOLS AND LANGUAGES<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>TextMate<\/STRONG>
\nSimply the best programmer’s editor there is. Works with multiple files, works with huge files, has astounding regular expression and macro capabilities. Totally extensible and programmable. Handles just about every programming language you can think of for formatting and syntax shortcuts, including web design.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>SubEthaEdit<\/STRONG>
\nReal-time multi-user collaborative editor. Have multiple people edit the same file, each gets their own cursor and color.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Eclipse<\/STRONG>
\nExtremely flexible, customizable, and automatable development platform for numerous languages.<\/TD><\/TR>
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<\/A><\/TD>Locomotive<\/STRONG>
\nInstantly set up and configure the latest Ruby on Rails development environment on your Mac without disrupting anything about the operating system configuration or default installs.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>MAMP<\/STRONG>
\nInstantly set up and configure the latest Apache, MySQL, and PHP on your Macintosh without altering your standard OS X’s configuration.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Fink<\/STRONG>
\nInstall all kinds of Unix free and open source software to your Macintosh. Includes many development tools.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Aqua Data Studio<\/STRONG>
\nDatabase administration and query tool that supports numerous database servers graphically.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Cocoa MySQL<\/STRONG>
\nManage local and remote MySQL databases in the native OS X GUI.<\/TD><\/TR>
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COMMUNICATION<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Skype<\/STRONG>
\nFree internet calls and video conferencing. Has voice mail and even call forwarding to non-internet phones.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Adium<\/STRONG>
\nInstant messaging for ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Bonjour (iChat), Google Chat.<\/TD><\/TR>
DRAWING, SKETCHING, AND CARTOONING<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>SketchBook Pro<\/STRONG>
\nSimple tablet drawing software that produces great looking art via the simulation of brushes, pens, and pencils using very nice stroke capturing technology.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Manga Studio EX<\/STRONG>
\nFantastic tool for creating black and white line art, ready for export into Photoshop or the coloring tool of your choice. Customizable brush styles and behaviors, comic layouts, halftone patterns, perspective rulers, and tools that just do not exist in Photoshop or The Gimp.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Comic Life Deluxe Edition<\/STRONG>
\nQuickly build comic strips from your own photo collection.<\/TD><\/TR>
OS X AND DESKTOP CUSTOMIZATION<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Pixadex<\/STRONG>
\nImport, organize, and assign icons.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>CandyBar<\/STRONG>
\nChange the icons in OS X that you’re normally not able to.<\/TD><\/TR>
FILE TRANSFER AND SHARING<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Fugu<\/STRONG>
\nFull featured BitTorrent client.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Azureus<\/STRONG>
\nFull featured BitTorrent client.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Tomato Torrent<\/STRONG>
\nDownload, generate, or server torrent files.<\/TD><\/TR>
ATOM, RSS, AND NEWS GROUP READERS<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>NetNewsWire<\/STRONG>
\nAtom\/RSS reader sporting many features, including sorting by the attention you give a feed.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Vienna<\/STRONG>
\nAtom\/RSS reader with tabbed browsing and apple script support.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Unison<\/STRONG>
\nNews group reader: join discussions, find and download music, photos, and programs.<\/TD><\/TR>
THE EARTH, SKY, AND BEYOND<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Google Earth<\/STRONG>
\nView imagery of any point on the Earth, find your house, and get directions between points.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Stellarium<\/STRONG>
\nPlanetarium software to see the night sky from any point on Earth at any time.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Celestia<\/STRONG>
\nView over 100 thousand stars from any vantage point in the universe.<\/TD><\/TR>
Web Cams, iSight<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>iGlasses<\/STRONG>
\nAdjust the focus, sensitivity, rotation of your iSight camera, as well as apply special effects.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>EvoCam<\/STRONG>
\nPublish a streaming webcame, record video, make stop motion movies, detect motion and trigger actions.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>EvoBarcode<\/STRONG>
\nHold a bar code up to your camera and have the computer type it in.<\/TD><\/TR>
ALTERNATE BROWSERS<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Firefox<\/STRONG>
\nMinimalist browser with lots of features, security, and the ability to add extensions to alter or enhance the browser’s capabilities, deal with kinds of file types, or to change the look’n’feel theme.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Opera<\/STRONG>
\nPerhaps the fastest, W3C compliant, and cutting edge featured browser that exists that boasts a very small footprint.<\/TD><\/TR>
CATALOGING: Music, Videos, and Books<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Readerware<\/STRONG>
\nMaintain a shareable, networkable database of your CDs, DVDs, and Books that can be exported to a number of formats, including for use on your handheld organizer. Also acts as a checkout library system.<\/TD><\/TR>
Movie, Soundtrack, Tutorial, and Podcast Creation<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Final Cut Studio<\/STRONG>
\nLinear video editor, multi track sound studio, motion graphics, author DVDs with menus and special features, video and audio conversion and encoding.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>Snapz Pro X<\/STRONG>
\nCapture screen, windows, regions, and movies of your desktop.<\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>WireTap Pro<\/STRONG>
\nCapture audio from different devices, including your computer.<\/TD><\/TR>
Games<\/STRONG><\/TD><\/TR>
<\/A><\/TD>X-Plane<\/STRONG>
\nA realistic flight simulator that actually performs the physics of the airplane. Earth model is to 1-meter. FAA allows simulator time to be logged as flight training time. Everything is instrumented and automatable via programming.<\/TD><\/TR><\/TABLE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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