Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Top 10 Mac software: The apple of our eyes

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1. Adium

Adium has support for pretty much every instant messenger protocol out there Google Talk to Twitter to Facebook chat to even IRC. Presentation is excellent. It might be just an instant messenger, but it’s the mother of all instant messengers and it just happens to be on the Mac. Even the meanest of Apple critics have a soft spot for this cute little messenger.
2. Quicksilver

This one is a must have for Mac keyboard warriors. Quicksilver is an app that allows users to quickly complete tasks without having to click through several menus and windows. It can also be used to quickly search through important locations. Plugins only make this app more powerful. Similar software for other platforms was influenced by Quicksilver’s approach.
3. Transmission

Even Mac OS X users love to download. One of the few Bitorrent Clients to be made for the Mac OS X has been Transmission. It’s popular on Linux, but its popularity has spread to Mac OS X and also to other devices especially NAS and downloads boxes.
4. Handbrake

One of the easy-to-coder out there. It’s specially designed to quickly convert your videos into H.264 content. It’s highly multithreaded for performance too.
5. Growl

Growl is a desktop notification application that shows alert and notifications for events to do with applications on your system. For example, you’ll receive a popup when a download is completed or when you connect a flash drive to your PC. The great things is that it’s highly customizable and has supports wide range of software.
6. Firefox

Firefox’s fire has spread to the Mac OS X. A lot of users prefer to use Firefox as their primary browser over Safari. Extension support means there are endless possibilities. A must-try if you haven’t used it yet.

7. The Unarchiver

The Unarchiver is the OS X alternative to 7zip and a replacement for the somewhat handicapped Archive Utility on the platform. The Unarchiver supports compressed formats to the older ZIP and LHA formats, to the latest 7zip formats.
8. VLC

VLC player has been around for ages now, and it appears it’s still the best all-in-one media player for the Mac platform. It supports almost all the formats, can be used for transcoding and even for streaming media.

9. SuperDuper!

System backups are simple on Windows PCs, but when it comes to taking backups of a fully working Mac OS X installation, SuperDuper! can get the job done. It’s not free, but the $27.95 is totally worth the peace of mind.
10. Things

Task management is an important task by itself. With apps being developed for everything from Windows to Linux to even mobile platforms, Things is one app that you cannot miss is you have a 100 things to do.

Source: thinkdigit magazine

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