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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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Patrick Greer said 11:33AM on 12-19-2006
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.
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Jerid Hill said 11:59AM on 12-19-2006
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/
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Hiram said 12:02PM on 12-19-2006
SpamSieve. It finally stopped the sea of spam my MacBook was drowing in.
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Ben Englert said 2:05PM on 12-19-2006
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.
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Jeff Dzierzawski said 3:27PM on 12-19-2006
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!
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Marc Edwards said 4:18PM on 12-19-2006
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/
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Martin said 4:45PM on 12-19-2006
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/
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meatmcguffin said 12:05AM on 12-20-2006
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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cromulent said 6:27AM on 12-20-2006
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.
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Galley said 9:31AM on 12-20-2006
Overflow launcher
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