OS X Applications
- AP Grapher for MacOS X - Check your WiFi reception strength.
- AccessTunes - Share your iTunes library over the web. I'm not sure how the music companies or Apple will feel about this, but it's a great way to unobtrusively pick through your friends music collections.
- Acquisition - OS X file sharing app.
- Adium X - A multi protocol IM client for OS X
- Awaken - Wake up to your favorite iTunes music
- Blue Coconut - Copy music from a shared iTunes library.
- Boot Camp - This is at once exciting and scary. We'll be able to run Windows on our Macs, but is this the slippery slope to Apple becoming an Windows PC vendor?
- Broadband Optimizer - Optimize Your MacOS X Broadband Internet Connection by increasing the memory buffers used for TCP transfers.
- Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger - Says it all really
- CLUTTER - Look up album covers from amazon for iTunes
- CSS Optimizer - Nice little OS X app for optimising your CSS by stripping out whitespace, comments etc. In tests it's reduced my CSS files by about 30%
- Cha-Ching - Interesting money management app
- Chax - Pimp your iChat
- Cocktail - Nice little app to help you maintain your Mac. Tom Cruise not included.
- CocoaMySQL - A nice looking MySQL client for Mac OS X
- Coda - Don't know about the app, but the page is nice.
- CoverFlow - Interesting way of browsing your mp3 collection.
- CronniX - Cron job management GUI
- Dimensionizer - A cool little OS X menu plugin, that displays the dimensions of images in the contextual menu. Very handy.
- Ecto - A desktop blogging client and successor to Kung-log
- Excellent New Personal Content Manager - I have exactly the same problem as the author of this write up. I've 2 todo bookmark folders, a couple of todo files as well as a todo stickie. I don't know if this app will help, but it looks interesting.
- Extended Desktop - Enable screen spanning on your iBook. Especially handy if you're presenting using Keynote and want to use the presenters display option.
- Fetch Art - Another Amazon cover art downloading app
- Fish - This is a virtual fish tank simulation for OSX. Completely pointless, but good fun nonetheless. You can even share your fish via rendezvous. Fun for all the office.
- Geek Tool - A PrefPane to display logs on your desktop.
- Getting things done with Automator and Spotlight
- Gorilla Usability Testing - A nice review of Silverback from Garrett Dimon
- Gush - Really nice looking site for this Mac OS X instant messaging and news aggregating application
- HTTP Mail Plugin - A Mail plugin that lets you collect and send mail from your webmail (e.g. Hotmail) account. Handy for downloading your mail then then composing your replies offline.
- How To Install Apple's Front Row
- Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X - How handy is this?
- Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X - Useful if you don't have a persistent internet connection.
- Kung Log - Little blog posting app
- Kung-Tunes - For posting your iTunes listening habits to your blog
- LGReset - Resets the region counter on flat panle iMac DVD players
- Linotype FontExplorer X - I've not given it a try yet, but it sure looks interesting
- Lynx - Techie text only browser
- Mac Game Files - download demos and shareware games
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - Huge, detailed and unbiased review of OS X 10.4 Tiger
- Mac OS X UNIX Tutorial - Useful UNIX tutorial for OS X users.
- MacDevCenter - O'Reily OS X homepage
- MacJanitor - Run your cron jobs at the press of a button.
- Macaroni - OS X maintenance scheduler.
- Miglia TV Mini - Looks like an iPod shuffle, but turns your Mac into a Free to air DTV PRV.
- Monolingual - Reclaim some disk space by removing unnecessary language resources from your Mac.
- NetNewsWire Lite - RS agregator for keeping track of all those blogs
- OS X Downloads - Mac software at apple.com
- OS X Hints - Useful article from O'reily
- OS X software inventory - A useful list of all the OS X applications as used by Brad Choat.
- OmniGraffle 3 - Great tool for site mapping and wireframing
- OmniGraffle 4 - My favorite IA app, just got better
- OmniOutliner - Useful OS X outlining tool
- PDF Browser Plugin - View PDF's in Safari.
- PDF Browser Plugin - Safari PDF plugin.
- Panther Secrets Declassified - If you've been using OS X for a while, you'll probably already know many of these tips. However there were a few that even I was unaware of, so it's worth a read.
- Photoshop Dust and Scratches Plug-in - Haven't tried it yet, but it has been doing the rounds of the blogsphere lately
- PicLens - Cinematic Views for the Web
- PithHelmet - Hide unwanted ads
- Pixelmator - Nice looking photo editing tool. Nice looking site.
- Pixen - Open Source pixel art drawing application for OS X. Not tried it out yet, but it looks promising. The site itself is pretty slick and as a bonus is built using pure CSS.
- Poisoned - P2P file sharing
- PulpFiction - Advanced News Reader/Aggregator for Mac OS X - Definitely looking forward to this little app being released. More details on NSLog();
- Quicksilver - Cool OS X application launcher
- SIPphone - Another OS X VoIP client, this time based on an apparently open standard.
- Safari Enhancer - Enable debug menu, turn offf cach etc
- Safari WebDevAdditions - Web developer extension for Safari
- SafariSpeed 1.0 - Speed up Safari
- Safarish - Firefox OSX Safari-look
- Saft - Make Safari run in kiosk or full screen mode
- Scheduling Tasks in Panther
- Server Logistics - PHP, MySQL and Apache2 in easy to install packages
- ShareAlike - you can share your iTunes library across your network, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to share it across users on the same computer. ShareAlike aims to solve this, although I've not managed to get it to work so far!
- Silverback - The first application from those lovely people at Clearleft
- Silverback Icon Development - Courtesy of Mr Hicks
- Six Design Lessons From the Apple Store - After reading this article, I'm looking forward to the London Apple store even more. I just hope they have the goodie bags like the did in the States and Japan. Now that would really be a Christmas stocking worth digging into.
- Skype - The Mac beta version of this VoIP client
- Skype Caller - Make Skype calls from your OS X address book
- Smart Playlists.com - Smarten up your iTunes playlists.
- Sno - A useless application that makes snow fall over your desktop
- Speed Freak 2.2 - Increase the speed of your current application by giving it more processor time.
- Staging websites on Mac OS X
- Stand - Jon points us to an excellent Safari addition that allows syntax colouring of the page source and the ability to open up links to a '_blank' target in a new tab instead of a new window. Nice.
- Stattoo - Like a cut down version of Konfabulator
- The Plaxo Toolbar for Mac - Sync your address book across multiple macs.
- Tiger Unleashed - A new OS or an advert for the X-Men. You decide.
- TigerLaunch - Useful (and free) application launcher
- TinkerTool - Activate hidden features in OS X.
- Turning a Mac Mini into a diigitaal media centre
- Use cron to repair permissions on a regular basis - Great tip for keeping your system working smoothly.
- VNC Macintosh - Controlling your mac using VNC
- VNCThing - Not tried it, but it looks good
- VersionTracker - Download Mac software
- Versions - Mac Subversion Client ">Versions - A neat looking Mac subversion client
- WebServerXKit - Another Apache, PHP and MySQL installer for OS X
- WhatSize - Handy little app to monitor your disk and folder sizes. Especially useful if your iBook is getting full and you need to decide what to trash.
- WinSwitch - A little app to improve the look of the fast user switching menu bar item
- Writeroom - Cool little writing app
- Xyle scope - Interesting looking app for pulling CSS sites apart.
- iChat Script Collection - Some useful scripts for iChatStatus
- iChatStatus - Let people see what you're listening too
- xScope - Handy suite of tools for designers
- xSort - An interesting card sorting application for the Mac
