I keep meaning to do a list of cool things I have found recently. I always said when I bought my Mac that I would document my experience… I have managed to blog about certain things, but not always the ones I wanted to.
So this post is going to be more about Mac apps and tools that I have found over the last year or so that have been extremely useful since I switched to being a Mac.
Plus, with the advent of the latest MacHeist nanoBundle and cracking sites like the AppStorm blogs, I thought it would be a good time to throw my two-pence-worth in.
So here’s my list of killer tools (in no particular order):
- Coda – the best coding app I’ve used in a long time
- Dropbox – this is secretly my favourite. don’t know how I survived without dropbox before now
- Notify – forget Google Notifier, get this it’s brilliant!
- Tweetie for Mac – the best Twitter client for your Mac
- Teleport – an amazing utility to control one Mac from another over a network
- Skitch – a nice little screen capture app
- Mac The Ripper – the easiest DVD ripper I’ve ever used – try RipIt if you also want to do an all-in-one conversion to a video file
- Onyx – a must-have maintenance and advanced admin tool
- Adium – my favourite IM app… connects to all the networks I use (except Skype)
- 1Password – unbeatable password manager
There are plenty of apps I haven’t tried out yet and some apps I would still like to see built (maybe I’ll learn Cocoa and start building some of my own…)
Here’s a somewhat haphazard review of some other cool Mac apps – I think Paul had too much coffee 
Please share your favourite Mac apps in the comments, I need more!!!
I’ve been using the 30 day trial of Busycal – everything that ical isn’t and will definitely be buying it in the next couple of days. Key reason : the way it manages ‘todos’ in any integrated and intelligent way yet still looks like an apple app. In fact, it’s more intuitive than ical.
Thanks for that Andrew! I may have to give that one a go! I hesitate to use my calendar because it syncs with Google and iCal doesn’t play too nice at the moment, although it’s much better than it was. I’m sure something like this encourage me to use my calendar way more (that and an iPhone)