Mac Applications I Can't Live Without

I absolutely cannot use a Mac without this, it like it zen...

this one is pretty obvious

If you use share photos, share/watch youtube, blog, read RSS feeds, you should really check out the Flockr browser. I use it mainly to upload photos to Flickr.

Voice quality of Macs is crazy good, the group chat feature is the best among all IM clients/protocols. OML heavily relies on Skype to collaborate.

Only if you use key-based SSH authentication, if you do, this is golden!

Best Mac chat client, it supports pretty much all IM protocols except Skype. It has builtin encryption, and it is built on libgaim. It is open source too!

Terminal.app sucks. iTerm has tabs, bookmarks, custom keyboard shortcuts, automatic hyperlinking stuff, and more.

It crash once in a while, but it's cool if you run GNU Screen on your remote hosts. (highly recommended, GNU Screen is another piece of software I cannot live without!)

Well worth the price, the editor of choice for Rails hackers. Though for me personally, it's still tough to beat VIM.

I paid for this, well worth it if you have a Treo. They also have Missing Sync for WM, Symbian, and even the iPhone. I've exchanged several technical emails with their support team and they are awesome. Having used Missing Sync for Palm for over 3 years, I would definitely vouch for their other sync products. Download an evaluation copy and see if you like it.

I'm still using CS3 Beta, oops!

As you might know I am a photographer, I use CS3 exclusively, I wish Bridge still works, the one that comes with CS3 is awesome! The ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) in CS3 is also amazing.

This only applies if you develop in Ruby on Rails. In Leopard rails is also pre-installed. But even so, if you work on multiple projects it might be useful to have different "bundles" of gems and what not.

I actually have everything installed from MacPorts, but Locomotive still makes things a lot easier.

I use this to blog for as long as I've been blogging. Worth the price.

Mail.app plugin for GnuPG, doesn't work on Leopard yet as of creation of this list.

There isn't a good pre-installed (writable) FTP client in OS X, there is no ncftp or anything. So when I work with the few consulting clients who don't have SSH/SCP access, I have to use CyberDuck. It also supports SCP and S/FTP, have useful features like bookmarks and stuff. One thing I really like is the integration with TextMate, so if you just have to edit a few files you won't even have to download and then upload back, you can just open the files directly in TextMate and save them.

I feel that I must rant about the builtin FTP feature in OS X, you can "mount" an FTP as a system volume, which is great, after you do that you can open files directly in VIM or TextMate or what not. BUT it is mounted read-only, so that renders it pretty useless.

This is relatively new for me, if you tweed, this is pretty cool. It hasn't used much system resource so I like that.

This is not something I cannot live without, in fact, I would MUCH prefer living without it. Sorry to rant a little again, but why the f does OS X still use StuffIt? Is the company affiliate with Apple or something? OS X has zip tools (zip, unzip, zipinfo, zipcloak, zipnote, zipsplit) built-in, it has tar built-in.

I don't really mind having to launch StuffIt whenever I double-click on a zipfile, what I really hate is that StuffIt has a "new version" every few months, I fail to understand how much they can really improve a zip algorithm which I don't believe has changed much since the 80's. I don't see much UI improvements or anything.

Why doesn't Apple handle their own compression/uncompression inside Finder is beyond me.

(I haven't upgraded to Leopard yet, maybe this has changed? I surely hope so. I actually attempted to upgrade to Leopard but it didn't work and I didn't have time to toy with it, but that is a rant for another time)

wanna rip your porn, ^H^H^H^H^H, I mean, DVDs, to smaller files in all type of encoding or for your iPod/iPhone/Treo? you have to check this out.

if ya wanna share the stuff you rip with Handbrake, check out Transmission, the best bittorrent client for Mac. Make sure you setup port forwarding at your Airport Extreme/Express.

the social music revolution... :)

OpenOffice for Mac, you do not need to buy M$ Office.