Mac DevCenter suggests best new apps of 2006

It's an idea that, frankly, we wish we had thought of first -- and that's not to say we won't do it anyway, nyah! -- but the O'Reilly Mac DevCenter squad has posted a few candidates for the top applications of 2006. With ten deep-thinking and developer-focused geektributors (including our own Erica Sadun), the nominated apps tend toward the utilitarian: Apple Remote Desktop, Parallels, a smattering of QuickTime codecs and audio tools, and popular favorite Yojimbo.

For my money, Todd Ogasawara has picked it right with Parallels. There's no other product with the impact, press/blogosphere attention, and overall buzz of the multi-OS virtualization app that could. Who knows... perhaps next year we'll be talking about VMware and SketchFighter Alpha as the best apps around.

What's your favorite application from the past 353 days? Let us know below.

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Overflow launcher

December 20 2006 at 9:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave

EagleFiler. It's like Yojimbo, but I find it much more feature-rich and more flexible. I also feel more comfortable with the way EF stores data.

December 19 2006 at 9:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Martin Sketchley

I've just downloaded the trial version of Yojimbo because of this, and as soon as I started using it I began to see how incredibly useful it's going to be.

I'd also like to give a head's up to WriteRoom - a simple environment for producing text. Go to: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/

December 19 2006 at 4:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Marc Edwards

CSSEdit. One of the the most beautiful and functional OS X apps I've ever used. I love it so much. It earns extra credit for having effectively 0 bugs for the release version.

http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/

December 19 2006 at 3:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeff Dzierzawski

Parallels, no question. It made it possible to replace my PC with a Mac. My work is PC-centric and we could not connect with a MAC only via PC software.
Works great too!

December 19 2006 at 3:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben Englert

Fission. Made my life 10000x easier with its simple but elegant and powerful interface. It is like all software should be: It chose a single function to be good at.

December 19 2006 at 12:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Hiram

SpamSieve. It finally stopped the sea of spam my MacBook was drowing in.

December 19 2006 at 11:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jerid Hill

I'm not sure why no one ever really gives credit to Crossover Mac. It's still in Beta, but I think this is literally the way to go. You don't even need to purchase a copy of Windows. Not all PC software is supported, but I have downloaded and installed software that was not supported and it worked flawlessly.

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/

December 19 2006 at 11:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Patrick Greer

I'm not sure if it can out in 2006 but Textmate seems to have really taken off in 2006 all but replacing BBEdit as the text editor of choice. I recently bought Textmate and while I am not a full-time programmer this program has renewed an interest in programming more and I really appreciate even the basic text editing features.

December 19 2006 at 11:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

meatmcguffin

Except expose, nothing has ever changed the way i use my mac more than afloat
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22237

also, i'm sure smcFanControl made a lot of laptop users happy
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/23049

Freeware FTW!

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