Friday, May 11, 2007

It's time for another list: My Top 10 Mac Applications

As a pretty avid Lifehacker reader, I always look forward to their top 10 list like this list of their Top 10 Mac Utilities. So I've decided to put together my own little Top 10 List, so here is a list of applications that I think should be on every mac.

  1. Quicksilver - I may have recently discovered this application but this almost indispensable utility has been winning over more and more of the Mac faithful.
  2. Firefox - Safari is nice at times but I live in a Firefox extension world, one of the few open source projects thats shown its ready for prime time.
  3. iTerm - Tabbed terminals, enough said
  4. Adium - Think Gaim (Pidgin) except mac-a-fied and just as awesome.
  5. VLC - I really don't go to any platform with out this swiss army knife of codecs, this in my opinion is one of better media players out there.
  6. TextWrangler - When TextEdit doesn't cut it there is always TextWrangler
  7. Desktop Manager - Until Spaces arrives in Leopard, I'd recommending this solid virtual desktop manager. Hell it even allows you bring up a run (Application) box, how cool is that?
  8. Fugu - You may die if you eat it but if you need a nice GUI that does FTP and SSH. This nonlethal version is a great little application that just gets the job done.
  9. MenuMeters - When you just want to know what's going on. This little system monitoring utility is a must have for the geek in you that loves to watch those stats.
  10. Open Office - When you have no words for Word, fire up the open source alternative which is quickly becoming more robust and powerful as it progresses. Its not quite the perfect replacement for Microsoft's Office but its damn close.

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