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CloudApp & Droplr: Sharing documents and other files. CloudApp has a great link shortening feature (I use the keyboard wherever possible) but is limited to 25MB files. Droplr also has the much better iPhone app.
Dropbox: Using it with 1Password, PKGBackup, and other things that should be stored and accessed wherever possible. Also great photo gallery implementation for simple photo sharing
Adium: The one and only IM
: For displaying the current track
ControlPlane: Automatically switch location by rules (‘WG’ is the German abbreveation for ‘flat share’ though)
TextExpander: Save your time - use TextExpander!
Blast: Keeps track of my recently changed/opened/created files. Very good when I’m downloading tons of documents for university
Evernote: Note taking accessible over Mac, iPhone and internet
Caffeine: Prevents my Mac from falling asleep
SlimBatteryMonitor: Does what the name suggests
Then the usual: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (with MagicMouse connected), Time Machine (damn! how I hate that exclamation mark appearing on Lion when not backing up for 30min), Clock and Spotlight.
I got some other apps running like Alfred, Default Folder X, BetterTouchTool and Divvy. I would have put them into the menu bar but the problem is my Mac being a MB13,3inch model. Therefore space on the menubar is rare.
(From gramuel)
Jitouch - extended gestures for Magic trackpad and Magic mouse
Sparrow - native client for Gmail
Dropbox - no further comments needed, I think
Mail Unread Menu - unread mail count for Mac mail client - with custom icons
- communicator
Adium - communicator
Little Snitch - Internet connection rules for apps
Blast - frequently used documents and apps menu
Meerkat - SSH tunneling to my home NAS server
Sidekick - activates apps and settings based on my location (E.g. disables locking computer when I am at home, etc.)
ExpanDrive - mounts remote drive (FTP, SFTP, etc.) - has a plugin for Network location
BusyCalAlarm - latest calendar events
Sophos Antivirus - there are viruses and malware designed for all OSes
Evernote - great way to record notes
Caffeine - great for keeping the screen awake
The rest is just standard Mac stuff.
Here are few things, that I have hidden from the menu bar — there is way too much stuff already:
Alfred - quick access / search anything
TextExpander - replaces texts while typing for quick text typing
Moom - window management tool
Witch - replaces Cmd+Tab with extended features (mainly restores minimized windows when switching)
TotalFinder - extend Finder functionality
Visor - docks terminal Quake style
(From Ondrej Masek)
(full size)
Evernote - just for Notes
ReadNow - a Read It Later list app
Grooveshark - just a Fluid menubar SSB
Blast - access recently used files and apps
Secret - sure you can guess what sort of app it is from the icon but it’s gorgeous and functional
Skitch - Screenshots
Dropbox - Duh!
TextExpander - Snippets
DelibarApp - Quick access to Delicious or Pinboard.in bookmarks
Divvy - Window management
- Showing different world times
Seamless - Transition songs playing on iTunes from Mac to iPhone and back.
Fl.ux - Adjust the color temperature of your screen so working at night is easier on the eyes.
Caffeine - To stop my Mac from falling to sleep.
Fuzzy - Shows the current time in words eg. ‘ten past twelve’
There are a couple missing, Sparrow and Skype, I removed Divvy and replaced with Moom, replaced Grooveshark with Radium, and went back from Evernote to Notational Velocity.
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I see most of the menu bars are quite short, so I’ve decided to submit mine:
xScope - To measure stuff on the screen when designing.
BetterTouchTool - The #1 utility if you own Magic Mouse / Magic Trackpad or MacBook.
Adium - #1 Mac Chat software. Allows me to stay in touch with my team via .
OmniFocus - The best GTD Mac software, I use it to keep my to dos and keep them synced between devices.
Pomodoro - Best Pomodoro Technique timer to stay productive by splitting task into chunks.
Emcee - Answers the “What’s playing?” question (Bit crazy that it’s $3 now, I got it for free before the Mac App Store).
Radium - Sometimes I just want to listen to something without bothering too much.
- To watch my stuff on iPad in bed.
Droplr - To quickly share screenshots with my team and other people in Adium.
Blast - Allows me to quickly access files and folders just changed.
Dropbox - Everybody knows Dropbox, right? Sync files between computers, devices and share with people.
Launch it! - Allows me to launch apps with a single hotkey. A very missing feature in Mac OS X.
Little Snitch - Firewall.
Size Up - To control windows from the keyboard. I am proud to say that I helped to develop it.
Evernote - Notebook synched between devices.
iStat Menus - RAM, CPU Temp, Fan Speed and CPU Load.
Time Machine, Bluetooth, Airport, Volume, Language - Built-in Mac OS X tools.
iStat Menus - Again this time to replace the flawed Mac OS X clock, this one gives me calendar access when I click it, not to mention a nicer menubar layout.
Fast Users Switching - Built-in.
Also I have KeyRemap4MacBook running to remap some buttons on the keyboard. Actually I switch Keyboard Layouts using single left/right shift presses and remap cmd-space to cmd-shift-space to get rid of that awful Snow Leopard language swtich. The icon for KeyMap is removed from the menubar because it has a nice Preference Pane built-in.
Phew. That’s about it.
(From Dear Apple)
moveAddict, nvALT, MenuPop, BetterSnapTool, Apptivate, Dropbox, Hyperspaces, Blast, LittleSnapper, CalendarBar, CuteClips, SlimBatteryMonitor, and .
The rest are standard Mac fair—WiFi, Time, and Spotlight.
(From Ammon Beckstrom)