Top 100 Mac Apps I’ve compiled a list of my top 100 Mac apps for your perusal, since so many people have been asking for it. Thanks to Taylor Olson and Jason for helping me put all the icons and links in place! These apps are certainly Tiger compatible, and most of ’em work inside Leopard (though the VNC utilities are now unnecessary). I did my best to avoid overly popular titles, but couldn’t avoid it in some cases. A rolling list of ‘Honorable Mentions’ follow the Top 100, so… keep reading. Only one application is missing. I’m also happy to announce that both VMware and Shiny White Box are coming aboard as official video sponsors – but their presence in this list is based on app merit. Which apps did I miss – especially for Windows switchers? 7zX (Compress / Decompress 7zX Archives) ACP Suite (Ultimate OS X Power Toys Array) Adium (Universal Instant Messaging App based on Pidgin) AP Grapher (Searches and Displays Wireless Networks) AppFresh (Keeps Third Party / Apple Apps Up-To-Date) AppZapper ASCII Projecktor Bean
Downloads - Dashboard Widgets - Starry Night Widget Killer Mac and Web apps for maintaining a graphic designer lifestyle I often receive many emails and interview questions asking what my favorite Mac apps are or what web apps I find most useful in my line of work and business. As an Apple fan and lover of all things “apps” I decide to write a more condensed list featuring some of my must-have apps that I use everyday (or almost everyday) to run my independent design business with explanations of why I like them and what I use them for. Little Snapper PURPOSE: LittleSnapper is a beautifully designed tool for capturing, organizing, tagging, and sharing online inspiration. HOW I USE IT: It’s always extremely helpful to have inspiration that is well-organized and at your finger tips—and LittleSnapper does it with ease and elegance. Whenever I come across online visual inspiration that I enjoy I either snap the web page or crop an area to my liking. HOW OFTEN USED: A few times daily WHY I LIKE IT: Beautifully designed and integrated with Flickr and Ember for easy sharing. Subernova HOW OFTEN USED: All day long.
AsramSoftware Lab Real monks are those who live by the labor of their hands. Goods of the monastery should always be sold at a price a little lower than the current market-price. (Rule of St. Benedict) The applications listed below were made in the monastery: feel free to download and test them. Should you like and use any of them, please support our work purchasing a license or making a donation. In freeware applications, to make a donation, select the ‘Make a Donation’ Menu. 4getMeNot(Shareware-Apple Store) Electronic agenda to store email/web addresses, phone-numbers and text-data (postal-addresses, personal/confidential data etc.). AskPoirot(Shareware-Apple Store) Very fast engine for searching in one go one or several sets of words in hundreds of files created by wordprocessors, pagemakers etc. BigBen (Shareware-Apple Store) Suppose you have a friend on holiday in some remote part of the globe and you want to know the right time to call him up: fine! Calculus(Shareware-Apple Store) Macintosh (2.9 MB)
GiftedMotion | Onyxbits When it comes to creating animated GIFs, there are a lot of commercial applications on the market for turning stock images into animations. Unfortunately, most of them cost a lot of money and require a considerable investment of time just to learn the basic operation. Feature bloat is often put before ease of use, simply because a long list of functions can be seen as a sales argument. The error in reasoning here being, that once customers pull out their credit cards, they want nothing less than buy the gold version, including everything and the kitchen sink. In reality, what users actually profit from most instead, is a simple tool that just does its job, without investing heavily into a bank of potentially confusing features. GiftedMotion was written with ease of use in mind. As an additional benefit, Giftedmotion also comes free of charge. Platform independent, runs on every OS. A request when linking: Backlinks are much appreciated.
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