OS X Apps

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	* [http://www.macvim.org/ Vim]		* [http://www.macvim.org/ Vim]
	* [http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/index.html SubEthaEdit]		* [http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/index.html SubEthaEdit]
		+	* [http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ TextWrangler] is free, fast, and has nice terminal integration.
	== Blogging ==		== Blogging ==

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Revision as of 02:04, 8 October 2006

Contents 1 Editors 2 Blogging 3 Launchers 4 Audio/Video 5 Bittorrent 6 RSS 7 File Transfer and Remote Access 8 Web Browsers 9 Instant Messaging 10 Misc.

Editors

• Vim
• SubEthaEdit
• TextWrangler is free, fast, and has nice terminal integration.

Blogging

• ecto

Launchers

• Quicksilver

Audio/Video

• 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

Bittorrent

Also see bittorrent tv shows.

• Azureus
• BitTornado
• "Official" client

RSS

• 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

File Transfer and Remote Access

• 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

Web Browsers

• 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
  • Check out some handy extensions.
• Although Tim doesn't use the modern OS X incarnation, he remembers using OmniWeb on a friend's NeXT back in the day.
• iCab

Instant Messaging

• Adium X an IM client for multiple IM systems (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, etc.)

Misc.

• Growl Single notification system. Get all IM, IRC, Current Song, etc. notifications via one app.
• GeekTool - A tool for geeks, like us.
• Menu Meters - Keep track of whats going on in your system via a menu bar display.
• svnX - a decent looking subversion client GUI.
• Desktop Manager - a virtual desktop manager for OS X