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Jun 14 2009

My favourite OS X apps

Posted by: Lydia in Shiny things, tags: , , , ,

These are some of the non-Apple applications on my iMac that make my life easier
Cyberduck – FTP browser
Disk Inventory X – visual view of all files by size
Firefox – Internet
HandBrake – Converts videos to a format suitable for iPhone
Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Psst – Stops my Mac from making the diagnostic start-up chime that bugs Adrian
Rosetta Stone – Would help me learn French if I ever opened it up
Skype – Free and cheap phone calls
VLC – Watching DVDs
FilemarkMaker – offline iPhone bookmarks

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2 Responses to “My favourite OS X apps”
  1. Cedric says: June 14th, 2009 at 11:06 pm

    Haha turning of the start up chime is also the first thing I do after buying a mac :-)
    I mostly use the same programs, but here are some OSX apps that I use:

    Free
    *Adium: Instant Messenger
    *Thunderbird: Mail
    *Openoffice.org: office suite
    *Bean: simple text editor
    *Transmission: bittorrent client
    *Skim: excellent PDF reader/editor

    Not free:
    *EyeTV: Watching DTV broadcasting (in belgium the VRT (één and canvas) and RTBF channels are free, and I don’t have a TV in my room)
    *Adobe Photoshop CS4: photo editing

  2. Lydia says: June 16th, 2009 at 1:32 am

    Thanks for the tips. Skim and EyeTV are both news to me. I shall have to check them out.