OS X Apps

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Revision as of 21:56, 7 March 2005

VLC is an excellent media player. It can play Quicktime movies in full screen unlike Apple's free Quicktime player. It also plays DVDs, Windows Media files, and pretty much anything else.
MPlayerOSX
Skype is a Voice Over IP (VOIP) application available for OS X, Linux, and Windows that actually works.
iPhotoToGallery adds an option to iPhoto to export photos to a Gallery account like gallery.antiflux.org

NewsFire
Shrook
Sage, a Firefox extension. Bforsyth has improved an existing Safari-like CSS style for Sage that he finds to be much better than the standard layout style.
Thunderbird does RSS as well as email now

SSHKeychain manages your SSH keys. Works great with Fugu and ssh/scp in the Terminal.
Fugu is a free GUI SCP/SFTP client
Transmit FTP/SFTP client

Camino gecko-based web browser
Safari is fine, as long as you turn on tabs (Safari->Preferences->Tabs->"Enable Tabbed Browsing")
Mozilla and Firefox, naturally
- Even better with the AdBlock extension. Here is a collection of existing blocking rules.
Although Tim doesn't use the modern OS X incarnation, he remembers using OmniWeb on a friend's NeXT back in the day.
iCab

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 * [http://www.apple.com/safari/ Safari] is fine, as long as you turn on tabs (Safari->Preferences->Tabs->"Enable Tabbed Browsing")
 * [http://www.mozilla.org/ Mozilla and Firefox], naturally
+** Even better with the [https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&id=10 AdBlock extension]. Here is a collection of existing [[blocking rules]].
 * Although Tim doesn't use the modern OS X incarnation, he remembers using [http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/ OmniWeb] on a friend's NeXT back in the day.
 * [http://www.icab.de/ iCab]