What do you install on a new Mac?
As I’ve been tricking out my new acquisition (expect more in the way of review soon…), it occurs to me to ask the following question: what are the first, must-have apps you install on a brand new Mac? Here’s my list:
What’s on your list of first installs?
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As I’ve been tricking out my new acquisition (expect more in the way of review soon…), it occurs to me to ask the following...
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In no particular order: Quicksilver, Newsfire, NetNewsWire 2 (beta), Omniweb, iPodderX, Limewire X, Gmail Status Adding to barb's comments to Roger, for the most part I agree with Roger and don't really like app launch alternatives like DragThings. However, I'm a recent PC convert who started out with DOS 5.0 so I'm a bit partial to keyboard navigation. I like Quicksilver because it keeps me on the keyboard and off the mouse. Old habits die hard and for whatever reason keyboard access to programs is soothing.
February 24 2005 at 10:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyRoger - I love Quicksilver for many reasons, one of which is it lessens my dependency on the mouse. I can launch all of my apps right from the keyboard. The more I spend time with it, the deeper it goes - I can append or prepend text to a text file without actually having to open it, e.g. I find it really handy, and I get the sense that I haven't even begun tapping into what else is possible in terms of automating workflow.
February 19 2005 at 7:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNNW Lite Path Finder PathFinderHack Butler Adium DarwinPorts Fink GNU Emacs iTerm SSHKeychain
February 14 2005 at 11:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWindowshade, ShadowClipboard, Meteorologist, Cocktail, Fontcard, FruitMenu, Firefox and Thunderbird......A great freeware application called RagTime Solo. What is with these application launchers? You can put aliases in a folder that you put in the right portion of the dock. You can put file destinations in the contextual menu. I can't find any reason for Dragthing and Quicksilver. I am not thing to be difficult; I have tried these applications and others of simmilar breed and they all seemed to be less than OSX's built-in customizing solutions. roger
February 14 2005 at 11:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyRE: number 31 I have actually had way more problems (corruption and system crashes) with Eudora than with the other three mailing programs I have used - Netscape mail, Mozilla mail and Apple Mail. Eudora was sooo unstable...
February 12 2005 at 12:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyApple X11 Hacked ADBMouse trackpad driver to allow 2-finger scrolling (if it's a PB) aMSN (adium and Fire are not as good for MSN) Growl All the system updates TuneKeys Palm Desktop (then uninstall everything except HotSync Manager and use iLife to sync it instead)
February 11 2005 at 11:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOddly I've just completed a list of 'The Top 100 OSX Applications' over on my site - http://www.creationrobot.com/index.php?p=728 I've most of the ones mentioned here on my list, the ones I don't know I'll have a look at.
February 02 2005 at 6:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCan't believe nobody mentioned Mozilla Thunderbird, do you all actually use 'Mail' ?!
February 01 2005 at 6:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyQuicksilver, Little Snitch, Smultron, VoodooPad, Firefox (with custom .css and hostperm.1), PithHelmet, MenuMeters, Sidetrack, MS Office, Photoshop CS.
January 31 2005 at 5:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply- Quicksilver - any Mac is broken without it - Quicksilver del.icio.us plug-in - keyboard access to all of my del.icio.us bookmarks - Office X - Excel only - iLife 05 - iPhoto only - iPhoto Buddy - multiple photo library support - Acquisition - P2P, not that I use it (-_^) - Cocoalicious - del.icio.us desktop app - Disk Inventory X - tree map of disk usage - iCal Viewer - overlays upcoming appointments on desktop - Temperature Monitor - overlays CPU temp on desktop, keeps history - RegionX - DVD multiregion hack - I bought the DVD so let me play it - Transmit - killer FTP app - Photoshop CS - Stand - Safari plug in; I use it to force links that open in a new window to instead open in a new tab
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