As more and more people are switching, I’m almost constantly asked: “which applications do I need (should I install) on Mac OS X?” To make a long answer short: you won’t need a great number, as the applications delivered with your Mac already satify most of everybody’s everday needs. Here’s a list of apps I [...]
Export more old and irrelevant posts like this in the future. They are just a kind of personal reminder for myself, when I’ll have to setup a Mac from scratch the next time. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080420211034137
just a reminder for the next os x installation: RCDefaultApp 2.0.1
if quicksilver will really die some day in the future, this might become an alternative: http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/ read more on lifehacker
try Seashore, which is a stripped down gimp with a native os x interface (i.e. no x11!).
the website claims: “RSS and Atom without the hassle – Shrook is a next-generation news reader that is not only easy to use, but offers advanced features not available to Mac users anywhere else. It supports all versions of RSS and Atom. Oh, and it’s free.” well, it still has to prove, but after using [...]
until yesterday there has been a feature i was missing soooo often in os x: the ability to mount a directory on a remote host via ssh. i searched a lot on the net. a real lot. as i knew fuse on linux, i couldn’t believe there was a mac port of it. but definitely [...]
no matter how large your current harddisk is, it is **always** almost full. whenever you need some free space immediately and don’t know for sure where to get it from, you need a tiny little tool, that tells you where all the space on your drive(s) is consumed for. instead of paying fifteen bucks too [...]
if you’re like me, there’s at least one feature os x is really missing: the ability to switch between arbitrary windows without touching your mouse. cmd-tab can only switch between applications. expos� also doesn’t satisfy my needs. take a look at witch…
my #1 must have tool: Quicksilver/. quicksilver is, what spotlight should be (although spotlight is quite nice already). just go and install it – you will never ever want to miss it again. if you don’t love it from minute one, you didn’t get it. read this fine documentation. you might also wanna read that [...]