What are your top 5 mac apps

If you use Pandora, then PandoraJam is must.

Rips the songs from Pandora as you are listening to them, tags them, and imports them right into iTunes.

PandoraJam
 


I was using transmit for awhile but ran into some major problems, I didn't know wtf was going on and just switched to FileZilla.

Apps:
CandyBar
VLC
The Unarchiver
Steam
Unison
Transmission
Little Snitch
 
Curio is awesome for brainstorming - mind mapping on 'roids.

Things is great for making sure you get your shit done.
 
I have both Coda and Transmit but Coda is the shit, built in textpad and css edit, even a terminal for you to ssh your servers. I also use SkEdit, awesome editor.
Skype is a must application too, I do international business and their unlimited subscription is simply a steal!
Use CoRD (free) to remote control your PC and use Apple Desktop Remote to remote control both macs and pcs.
 
Dare Devil said:
I've played around with other people's Macs but never owned one so naturally I don't have much experience with Mail since I don't - you know - check other people's mail.

Is Thunderbird much better than Mail or is Mail suitable? I like Thunderbird but I don't LOVE Thunderbird. One thing I was actually looking forward to with a Mac + iPhone (currently Win + BB) is that everything will be drop-dead stupidly easy seamless. While BB + Tbird is possible, there's hoops to jump through and always the possibility of something not shaking hands somewhere at a crucial point. Bringing Tbird into the mix with a Mac seems like the whole point is Moot for an email standpoint.

So my long-winded question is: does the Mail app do fine for business and handle many different email accounts well enough to leave TBird alone?
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I notice that no one has answered your question so I'll do.

Yes you can add as many email accounts to the Mail application as you want. To be honest, I don't know why these guys are using Thunderbird instead of Mail, they are probably to PC-ish. For me, I love the application, it just rocks. Notifies you when a new mail arrives and auto-includes signature, a built filter and you can add a custom color of the title for the emails from a specific sender (ie: red title emails from important senders).
 
cheshire said:
Its a laptop, just shut the lid and let it sleep, no need to power it down.
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You don't know what you're talking about. Shutting down clears the swapfile, allows system startup checks to be performed routinely, and is generally good for the computer.
 
i would still highly recommend yummy ftp for you guys, cehck it out. best ftp editor by far that i have seen, better than cyberduck,transmit,filezilla,etc


im only saying this again cause i recommend it so much. i use ftp nonstop so thats a critical program for me that i need to love
 
RichieN said:
I notice that no one has answered your question so I'll do.

Yes you can add as many email accounts to the Mail application as you want. To be honest, I don't know why these guys are using Thunderbird instead of Mail, they are probably to PC-ish. For me, I love the application, it just rocks. Notifies you when a new mail arrives and auto-includes signature, a built filter and you can add a custom color of the title for the emails from a specific sender (ie: red title emails from important senders).
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I do plan on moving to Mail, but only use TB as I migrated from a PC and meant i moved across without any pain, because like many i have far too many accounts. I also use Lightening and did on a pc, so this also enabled me to say as is.
 
quicksilver (use it practically all day)
terminal (luckily comes with your mac.. lol)
Textmate (programming, debugging, plus their bundles cover just about every language under the sun)
Coda/Transmit (i list them both because this is what i'll use if it's just a quick html/css edit through ftp, transmit being the ftp program that kicks more ass than the ending to freebird)
Adiumx (chat - all networks, including home-grown xmpp/jabber setups....was the first to enable facebook chat by figuring out what commands they implemented on their custom jabber server..)
colloquy (irc client w/ light footprint, no bells and whistles, and to change the look of the client just change up the css..ohhhh yeah)
SnapnDrag - I think it's since been renamed by the author but still is shareware/freeware.. regardless it's one of the best screenshot/snapshot apps i've come across + use often
Dropbox.com (yes i know it's not technically an app but it's osx integration makes uploading files to you own free storage space a snap... esp making files public so you can quickly send stuff to your friends)
Parallels/VMware - Ok, parallels is considerably faster for running xp, however i use vmware for any dev linux environment because from setup->running take no time at all).
XLD - all sound file conversions.. i.e. flac->mp3, etc.. fast, multi-threaded, awesome
Versions - SHN repository GUI
SmartGit - Github GUI repsotitory
MarsEdit - Easy way to edit blog posts, multiple ways (obv. xml-rpc being the easiest/go-to way).
Mamp Pro - Way better (in my opinion) than using the locally installed apache server.. easy as hell to make quick changes to the environment on the fly... great for a quick local dev environment.
Lil Snitch - Lets me know as well as block any application from phoning home
1Password - too many passwords/logins, this keeps track of them all and is accessible via any browser.
DeepVacuum - when you really just want to rip a site for your own archives
Then there's a few CS5 apps.. but who cares about adobe, right? :)
 
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