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You should check out iPhoto2Gallery which is an export plugin for iPhoto. Assuming you use it...

I found it to be a great way to export dirrectly to Gallery right after the usual tweaks and selections for the albums you are sharing.

http://zwily.com/iphoto/

That's the link...

Oh yeah, I left that one off the list. It's installed. Superb interface to Gallery indeed.

How could you forget MacJanitor? It rotates logs and does other neat system-scheduled tasks, like updatedb.

Eh, that's all I could come up with that's not on your list :)

Looks nice, but mine is almost always running. I keep late hours and also have a scheduled daily backup that takes place at 4:25 AM. I'm usually asleep by then.

I did something very similar a few weeks ago, though not nearly as exhaustive/complete: Required OS X Programs.

What about SHROOK?

http://www.fondantfancies.com/shrook/

I like it more than NNW, or any other RSS reader for that matter, mac or PC.

Justin -- nice list. I looked at iTerm a long time ago and while nice, I preferred Terminal better. Today's iTerm is much improved. I'm going to give it another try.

I've also looked at the OmniWeb 5 beta. There are some innovative features to be sure. Maybe once it's out of beta I'll try it again, but for now it isn't stable enough for me.

I've added Mail.appetizer now. My little screen is getting to be quite busy... log files, weather, calendar, position of the sun, IM users coming and going, current track, incoming mail... maybe a little too much to look at. :)

Yah, one of the things I like most about iTerm is the fact that you can tab your shells.

I think you'll quickly realize that you can't live without Mail.appetizer -- it's a great program (with a perfect name to boot). The best part is that it is completely unobtrusive -- it keeps the focus on your current window and allows you to keep working while reading through the incoming e-mails. The only problem you might run into is if/when you get a large chunk of spam that isn't filtered by Mail.app. I have the preview set to five seconds and a couple of days ago I got 20 spams at once and had to sit there and wait for it to cycle through the previews.

Check out the fantastic freeware over at Devon. I use Calc service in preference to any other calculator.

http://www.devon-technologies.com/freeware.php

Not to nitpick, but iLife 04 is $49 instead of $99.

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=M9364LL/A

Thanks, Brad! I just "switched" to a new 15" Powerbook this week and I've been trying to find lots of cool software. This list will be invaluable!

Brad, QuickSilver has a clipboard history which is (obviously) keyboard driven. It's very handy. You need to activate it under Preferences > Clipboard.

Can anybody recommend a good file/directory comparator ?

I can't recommend Quicksilver highly enough.

http://blacktree.com/apps/quicksilver/

You should check out the Path Finder beta - it fixes the desktop expose problem and is totally amazing!

Re: edmz

The developer tools include an app called FileMerge (/Developer/applications/Utilities) that is a nice graphical app to diff (and merge) files and directories.

Azureus - great bittorrent downloader/manager. Cross-platform as well.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

ACT is the biggest thing that I can see that I would miss. Someone told me it runs well under Virtual PC.

BTW, I ordered my first Mac today, 15"/15ghz Powerbook and will save this page as a reference for what to download :-)

Thanks!

Good list. Some additions;

MacJournal is a must. Love it!:
http://homepage.mac.com/dschimpf/

PDF viewer for safari:
http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/

Have you tried Butler? It is a launcher, clipboard, search tool, bookmark manager, iTunes controller, and more.

Nice List - a few of my own favourites in there, but also some new ones which I'm off to check out now. I've keeping an eye on versiontracker since I bought my first mac six months ago and discovered a lot of good stuff that way... but it is amazing how much still falls through the cracks.

thanks again!

Not sure if you have evaluated CopyPaste 2 for OS X - it is close to the Clipmate you mentioned - and includes the ability to have several permanent clip spaces as well as a standard running clipboard of 100 entries. The contexual menus work in Safari now - which was huge.

Awesome list! I already have many of the programs on your list. Sidetrack is a life saver!!! Finally I have two mouse buttons! :) The only thing I feel that is missing from your list is MPlayer OS X 2. In my opinion this port of MPlayer is the only way to watch videos on a Mac.

Great list, thanks. Just to nitpick: I doubt using shapeshifter affects GUI loading speed. Just alternate graphics, not additional. I think theming is why I use Mac ...

If you're still trying out ftp/sftp/ssh apps, you might want to check out RBrowser.

http://rbrowser.com/

Could Crm4Mac be a substitute (albeit a very simple one) to ACT?

http://www.crm4mac.com/

I'm a bit late to respond, but since you ask... the one OS X application I could not live without is Idea Knot. It integrates well with my scatterbrained thought processes.

Any time I start a new project that uses text, I create a new Idea Knot file... (164 .knot files on my hard drive at the moment.) For example, I used it to organize my Movable Type templates, breaking them down into smaller units. Heck, I even converted the MT manual into an Idea Knot file.

I went to download Noiz2sa, but found that it was only available for Windows machines. Is there a mac version that I'm missing, or do you play this on a virtual pc? Thanks.

Latercomer says: VoodooPad !!!! (flyingmeat.com/voodoopad)

Perfect! I've just been asked about software by a student who's just changed from Windows to Mac, and I'm no expert. Thanks

Fugu is pretty good and I used to use it but I recently switched to Cyberduck. It seems to handle the very few things that Fugu couldn't (plus Fugu has not been updated in quite some time). You can check it out at http://cyberduck.ch and it is free as well. Great list though, very informative, thanks!

Congratulations!
For Usenet newsgroups try MacSOUP, which has a unique way of showing the threads in newsgroups.
Setup is a bit awkward, but the threading compensates for that.

A bit late for comments, but you mentioned looking for a good clipboard archive utility. I'd strongly recommend checking out CopyPaste, because it's got that exact functionality, plus much more. It's shareware, costs $30 -- or you can get the "Lite" version for only $10. I'd say it's very much worth it!

When you say 'swapped', do you mean Adobe allowed you to invalidate an existing Windows license in return for a new Mac one?

We've been trying to do this at work with some, and are always summarily dismissed. Thanks!

If you need to link Ical,mail,Addressbook, and more in one app this is for you. a one page Iapp utility.

Help! I am a new 'Newby' to the mac computer world and am frustrated with my new Mac OS X. I purchased Print Shop and am disappointed with the phot editing tools. Is there free software that has more extensive editing tools then iphoto and print shop? I am looking for more brush options and blemish removal type tools. Thanks, Debbie

Get GraphicConverter. It's not free but it's one of the all-time great shareware apps for the Mac.

http://lemkesoft.com/

Love the site. Very helpful. Anither good Bit Torrent program you may like to check out is Azureus. Thanks again.

Nice list :) I'll bookmark this for when my powerbook finally arrives.

One program that I found useful on OSX was macirssi[1]. This is a gui-version of irssi[2] an advanced command-line IRC client.

Great for those that enjoy chatting on IRC.

1. www.g1m0.se/macirssi/
2. irssi.org

tks man, i buy my first mac (e-mac) and serch about free utilies and surf-at ur blog.. tks dude.

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Unless someone already mentioned it, Transmit is a nice app for FTP. I use it almost daily :) . It's over at Panic software, Panic.com, and they have some other stuff too, CandyBar and Unison, a few others.

Brad,

You have quite a list. I have been bookmarking like crazy for months....I decided to register a domain and actually create a site dedicated to cool osx apps. Some are more than useful production wise and some are just plain fun. I will definitely link to your site....can you remember booting up OS 9 crashing, saving your extensions and preferences and reinstalling....HAHAHAH...no more crashes OSX is stable enough that people are developing free software, I don't have to second guess before installing anything anymore...

Just found ImageWell. The best free, easy, fast image utility for resizing, rotating, cropping, bordering, etc. Drag/drop to/from with auto upload via WebDAV or FTP.

Besides the fact I have 10 tabs open in firefox after reading your marvelous list, I am curious to look at :-) I would like to recomment MPlayer for osx, since it is the ONLY program that plays xvid/xdiv/... and Xine or VLC if your DVD regio changes are maxed out.
Futhermore there is macam, a webcam program to convert your webcam into a video cam.
I'm sorry but I don't have the links but google will do. The link to your red pill screensaver is not working though it is still available.
just my 2 procents...

The one app the Windows folks had that eluded Mac users was the RoboForm Password Manager & Form Filler.

1Passwd (http://1Passwd.com) is a similar app for OS X. 1Passwd integrates directly with the keychain, and has full support for Safari and Firefox.

Brad... Awesome list! I'm a network engineer and I use a macbook pro. My colleagues from when they see me consoled into a cisco router using my serial to usb converter with Z-term.

I was checking out the Geektool and I noticed the background images on the laptop were awesome. Would you mind sharing the images?

Thanks again for such an awesome list of apps...BL

B-Lock: If you're referring to the link to the GeekTool screenshots, those are desktop backgrounds by various GeekTool users. I don't' have any of those personally.

so, did adobe allow you to switch, or did you just find someone to swap with or what- thanks-andy

Virtual Life for OS X (on apple's website - FREE)

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