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Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: space-time
Date: February 20, 2012 05:46PM
what is your favorite OS X App/Application, that would be both from the Mac App Store or traditional Application (i.e. not from the App store).

I immagine everyone has some favorites and we may enjoy sharing with each other our favorite ones.

I will add to my list a few more later, but I shall start with

Dropbox
CoconutBattery
Pixelmator
1Password
CarbonCopyCloner
SmartUtility
Handbrake
VLC

I will add a few more later



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 02/20/2012 05:50PM by space-time.
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: February 20, 2012 05:48PM
Turbo Tax for Mac - I always get money back after I use it! grinning smiley


It is what it is.
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: hal
Date: February 20, 2012 06:03PM
Photoshop - I'm in constant amazement at what this thing can do - and I am probably only 30% proficient.

Adobe Lightroom - my photo catalog app of choice

Timbuktu - I love having access to all the macs on the network, but this critter is OLD (a few versions old) and I suspect that other cheaper tools are in my future...
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: Spock
Date: February 20, 2012 06:27PM
Eudora ...


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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: LaserKun
Date: February 20, 2012 06:31PM
Hold on there, hal; Timbuktu is still available? I'll have to check it out to see if they have updated it to run under Snow Leopard/Lion.

Favorites:

Pages, Numbers - I like iWorks programs a lot.
Carbon Copy Cloner
Camino browser
I really liked the old, pre-Lion Entourage for email, but Outlook is not as smooth it seems.
Yeah, TurboTax - I would not have thought of that one, but I am using it right now. I keep changing between HR Block's and Intuit's tax programs. TT seems to be fine this year... we shall see.

Eudora! Spock, wow, I know some people like it, but I could never get to liking that one.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/20/2012 06:32PM by LaserKun.
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: lazydays
Date: February 20, 2012 06:37PM
Handbrake-video conversion
VLC-video playback
Transmission
iTunes
iCal (not really a favorite but used frequently)
Adium-chat
Neooffice-kids school work
Screen Sharing-most of the time I'm using my laptop in the living room but controlling the iMac in my other room.
Metax-adding info to movies and tv shows
Automatic-monitors rss feeds and automatically downloads torrent files that meet your search terms.
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: Chakravartin
Date: February 20, 2012 07:03PM
Lately, SMART Utility and Carbon Copy Cloner.

Enable bit-copy in the CCC pref's. Wheeeeeee!
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: TL
Date: February 20, 2012 07:18PM
Transmit
Adium
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: colonel panic
Date: February 20, 2012 08:06PM
Address Book (pre-Lion)
Mail Beacon
Little Snitch
iTunes
Pro Tools
Bias Peak
iZotope RX
SuperDuper
XLD
Dropbox
Handbrake


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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: space-time
Date: February 20, 2012 08:14PM
Evernote anyone? I just signed up for an account and installed it.
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: freeradical
Date: February 20, 2012 08:16PM
Microsoft Office
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: clay
Date: February 20, 2012 08:17PM
Quote
space-time
Evernote anyone? I just signed up for an account and installed it.

Yup, that's an indispensable part of the infrastructure at our company. We all use it all the time, super service.
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: JoeM
Date: February 20, 2012 08:47PM
Photoshop
Lightroom
PortraitProfessional
SpyderPro
Suitcase
Dreamweaver
Quark
Pro Tools
UAD Plugins
Mixbus
DrumCore
Transmit


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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: sekker
Date: February 20, 2012 09:04PM
Stanza (still works ok, though the iOS app is flaky under iOS5).

Toast

VMware fusion

Papers2

I like the idea of iBooks Author
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: Wags
Date: February 20, 2012 09:30PM
Finder
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: ka jowct
Date: February 20, 2012 09:53PM
Photoshop
InDesign
Text Wrangler
Image Rescue
CD Finder
Disk Warrior
SuperDuper
Little Snitch
VLC
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: miK.
Date: February 20, 2012 11:42PM
Dropbox
VLC
Unison
Transmission
Swift Publisher (switched to this for minor layout after Appleworks and never looked back)
Vox (plays all audio types including FLAC)
Skitch
Carbon Copy Cloner
GraphicConverter
Jaksta
Img2icns
Picasa
Sound Studio


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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: JEBB
Date: February 21, 2012 07:00AM
So far no one has mentioned Quicken and AppleWorks.
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: Fritz
Date: February 21, 2012 07:07AM
dropbox
Evernote
Handbrake
ProTools
MoneyDance
QuickSilver
Chaneru
Plex
Live
TeamViewer
Think or Swim


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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: h linamen
Date: February 21, 2012 07:07AM
I use Appleworks almost daily even on intel.
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: testcase
Date: February 21, 2012 08:03AM
RipIt
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: flightdelayedagain
Date: February 21, 2012 09:05AM
MyStuff
[www.mindersoftworks.com]
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: Joey Cupcakes
Date: February 21, 2012 04:16PM
Can't believe no one has mentioned yet:

Default Folder
Drag Thing

Dropbox has become indispensable for me.
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: Lew Zealand
Date: February 21, 2012 05:19PM
DiskWarrior
Photoshop (Elements is what I have @home)
Carbon Copy Cloner
Handbrake
vlc
MPEG Streamclip
Dropbox
Tex-Edit Plus (for >15 years now!)
Bean
Clipboard History
XLD
TurboTax
Excel
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Re: Your favorite Mac OS X Applications?
Posted by: Forrest
Date: February 21, 2012 06:08PM
Camino
Virtualbox
Steam
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