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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Marvo said 11:16PM on 7-20-2005
LaunchBar, Firefox, NetNewsWire Lite, SubEthaEdit
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olaf said 5:52PM on 6-29-2005
I'm all about NewsFire, Nudge, PithHelmet and Acquisition.
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Matthew Wilson said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
Quicksilver, Notational Velocity, SSHKeychain, Fugu
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Al Willis said 1:05AM on 7-12-2005
QuickSIlver is the first thing I install on any Mac I'm going to use for longer than 5 minutes.
-- Al
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Taavi Taijala said 2:32AM on 7-20-2005
Newsfire and Lauchbar, the best of the best for RSS and Launching!
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Scott Morrison said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
My top 10:
1. Dragthing,
2. Butler (way better than quicksilver or Launchbar, imho)
3. TextWrangler/SubEthaEdit (I waver now that TW is free)
4. NetNewsWire 2.0 beta (for podcatching as well as RSS feeds),
5. Camino -- prettier than FireFox,
6. Geektool,
7. Tinkertool,
8. MenuMeters,
9. Schubert PDF plugin,
10. RsyncX -- for backups.
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derek said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
quicksilver
adium
newsfire
firefox
azureus
bluephoneelite
cssedit
transmit
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Fazal Majid said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
DoubleCommand (disables CapsLock and makes Home/End work as they should).
TigerLaunch
Marcel Bresink's Hardware Monitor
DiskInventoryX (visually hunt disk hogs)
X11 and a bunch of Unix apps (compiled from source, not Fink), most notably XEmacs.
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Josef Habr said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
i like to keep it light, so i might even not do ten:
Skype, NewsFire, Transmit, RDC, MPlayer, BluePhoneElite, Romeo, then something to tune up finder's preferences (OnyX, TinkerTool, Cocktail) and the best screensaver - Traveler's Clock (i like green Gill Snas 360 pt for secondless clock)
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motech said 6:20PM on 7-10-2005
weatherpop, ms office (soon to be replaced by iwork - sweet app)
vlc - then depending on the user - adobe cs, latest version of ilife, mac the ripper, dvd2one, latest version of stuffit, hhmm what else.
thats all i can think of for now.
most important - weatherpop!
after that and vlc,
apple really covers all the other software i need.
safari does it allll for me :)
so does mail and address book and ical and ichat and iphoto .
o and did anyone try delicious monster, a must have for a movie collector : )
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Rahul Sinha said 8:35AM on 7-20-2005
virtue as a better version of desktop manager
SubEthaEdit is a must
I just love the stuff omnigroup puts out (I am in no way affliated with them), so OmniWeb 5.1, OmniGraffle Professional 3.0, OmniOutliner 3.0
NewsFire as a free alternative to NetNewsWire
MenuMeters
Growl
Definitely Quicksilver and Adium
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thomas patrick dillon said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
desktop manager
Snap Pro X
flickr upload
chicken of the VNC
Toast
Citrix
Bit Torrent
Firefox
Bluephone Elite
DVD Backup
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another_user said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
unrarX
audio hijack
bit torrent
vlc
ilife
real player
camino
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Vlad said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
Thanks for this post. I recently aquired a slick ibook and was actually wondering what some good apps would be to install. Unfortunately I have no idea what half of those apps are, but there's always room to learn, isn't there? ;)
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Oliver said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
1. LaunchBar
2. LaunchBar
3. NewsFire
4. X-Tunes
5. MenuMeters
6. Did i mention LaunchBar?
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Jan Peters said 5:23PM on 6-30-2005
Books or Booxter
Comictastic
Handbrake
Locator
Romeo
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Ben said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
Erhm
BluePhoneElite
SSHKeychain
Synergy
PureFTPD Manager
NCFtp (I just can't find a decent GUI FTP client)
Darwinports
SubEthaEdit
Adium
Developer tools of course!
SideTrack (evaluating, but I probably will buy that one in the near future)
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Brutal said 7:23PM on 10-26-2005
Quicksilver, AdiumX, Transmit, SubEthaEdit, Saft
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Tyler Weir said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
I'll add another vote for QuickSilver which is truly a must have.
VoodooPad[1] is a Wiki an in app, simple and fantastic.
Other than that, most of the major apps have been covered.
[1] http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad.html
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peeweejd said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
divx is amongst the first software to install also.
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