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Sophos Anti Virus - Because you can never be too careful!
Fantastical - I use this to simplify my iCal workflow, especially for school.
smcFanControl - This keeps my Mac cool during processor intensive activities. I have several preset speeds that I choose based on what I’m doing. It also boosts the fan speed by 750RPM while my Air is charging.
Ejector - I use this especially on my MacBook Air to make removing my external disks simple.
FreeMemory - I have this set to automatically purge my inactive RAM whenever it drops below a certain level. Keeps my Air smooth and responsive.
Dropbox - Self explanatory. Also, awesome.
BwanaDik - Keeps tabs on my current Wi-Fi situation. More informative than the built-in menu app.
MenuPrefs - Simplifies changing the System Preferences.
- Apple should have done this…
CloudApp - For quick sharing of small items between my Macs and friends
Evernote - For jotting down stuff I want to remember
- Displays the weather in really nice HD graphics, and the menu bar app drops down a list of current temps for selected cities.
Caffeine - Keeps my Mac running high.
Then the standards: Keychain Access, Time Machine, Bluetooth, Battery, Wi-Fi, Volume, Date/Time, and Spotlight.
(From Vincent Sanchez)
BetterTouchTool - Just discovered this little gem and it’s great to be able to do more with touchpad gestures. Window snapping feature allowed me to get rid of ShiftIt.
Dropbox - If you haven’t heard of it or don’t use it, welcome to Earth.
Meteorologist - Handy weather, click for details, extended forecast at radar.
ClipMenu - Clipboard organizer and also useful for doing “plain text” pasting in apps without that option natively. Can configure the number of items it remembers.
Caffeine - Because it is handy at times.
Display - Because I use an external display fairly regularly, but not always the same one.
Battery - I know there are slicker third-party ones out there, but the native one does what I need.
Bluetooth - For moving stuff to/from my dumbphone.
Wi-Fi - Sometimes you need to check or tweak stuff. I use multiple networks in the course of most days.
Date and time - Because I always forget and 12-hour time stinks.
Spotlight - I occasionally use it to search, more often as a simple calculator. (Just type in your equation!)
(From Chris Moellering)
Desktoday - utility to clear the files and folders that get scattered on the Desktop and put them into a folder with today’s date
Skitch - annotate, edit and share your screenshots and images
- comfortable clipboard manager
Radium - best online radio player for Mac
DoublePane - effortless window management
Caffeine - prevents your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers
ClamXav Sentry - provides the ability to watch folders for changes and start virus scan
- Translate texts and links on the fly
MagicPrefs - enhanced functionality for my Magic Mouse and Macbook Pro trackpad.
AccessMenuBarApps - must have for accessing all menubar apps on a small display
The rest: Monitor, Bluetooth, Time Machine, Wi-Fi, Volume, Battery Status, Clock, User, Spotlight.
(From Jo)
Dropbox — Probably the most brilliant gem. I use the 50GB Pro plan.
ClipMenu — My choice for clipboard manager. Pretty simple app with a lot of custom options.
Caffeine — Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers.
CloudApp — A well-known one. Allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files. Also, automatically uploads your recent screenshot and copies the link ready to share.
BaseApp — Helps you stay on top of everything that happens in your Basecamp accounts. I use Basecamp in my work and I’m tired of the inbox overflowed with Basecamp notifications. Let BaseApp do it. From creators of CloudApp.
— The one and only notification system for Mac. Should be built-in.
DisplayPad — Allows you to use your iPad as a second display for your Mac. There’s a variety of such apps, but this one seems to be the best.
— Official Twitter app.
LittleSnapper — Allows you to capture screenshots, organize them or annotate and share. This tool has a very nice and native interface and, as a UI designer, I use it a lot for capturing some inspiring elements.
The rest are built-in ones: Keyboard, Clock and Spotlight.
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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)
Flux - I’ve hidden the icon since I couldn’t figure out how to change it. Tints the screen a warmer tone at night.
Vienna - RSS reader. I wish I could figure out how to disable the unread menu count though.
Gmail Notifr - nice and simple.
Echofon - Twitter app.
nvALT - great for quick note-taking.
Delibar - for access to my Delicious bookmarks.
CloudApp - quick file uploading.
Calendar - calendar that shows iCal events.
CalendarBar - I’ve hidden the menubar icon and checked “Show badge inside icon” in the the preferences, so I end up with just the number of events I have for the day.
Caffeine
Focusbar - pop-up reminders to keep me focused.
- current condition icon and temperature.
iStat Menus - battery and time.
Spotlight
Most of the custom icons are from the Clean icon set (no longer available), modified to fit different apps. The CloudApp icon is from here.
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(opensource; gets Android notifications through Growl), Last.fm scrobbler (for music), Adium IM (menubar theme used: Adium Twitbar), Caffeine (prevents the Mac from sleeping), Dropbox, (helps display a variety of info on your desktop), Macfusion (Filesystem mount plugin), and Anxiety (light weight to do manager that syncs with iCal and Mail).
(From Bharadhwaj Narayanan)
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)
Dropbox - I use Dropbox to backup everything that I’m working on. I am a Pro User, with 50GB almost filled up.
Visor - I spend a considerable amount of time in the day in in the command prompt, and Vizor gives me a quick Quake-like hotkey to open up a command prompt.
Flux - When I happen to be working at odd-hours, I’d like to try and save my eyes as much as possible. Flux automatically changes the temperature of my display based on sunrise/sunset times.
Caffeine - Prevent my Mac from going to sleep, by giving it some Caffeine.
SSHKeychain - Painless SSH key management. Also, establishes SSH tunnels for me. Neato!
Bluetooth - I like to know what is connected to my machine at any given time.
Wi-Fi - Yup. I use it.
Keyboard - I have to keymaps setup - one for US English and the other for Russian. Quick toggle between.
iStat Menus - At a glance, I can see what is happening on my system. CPU/Memory/Clock shown, expands to show additional information about Disk IO/Usage/Network/etc. I like the World Clock provided by iStat Menus.
- OpenVPN management for OS X.
Spotlight - Typically, I use Alfred.
Watts - Neat little tool that tells me how and when to calibrate my laptop battery.
(From frymanet)
This is my new setup, with black menu bar courtesy of .
- Always stay social
- IM for Business
Sparrow - The Minimalist Mac Mail Client, it’s a very good replacement for Apple’s Mail.
Adium - Not only highly customizable but also multi-network/account
Divvy - Awesome window manager with KeyBinds
GeekTool - Embed your terminal in your Desktop. You can check my GeekLets Collections here:
BetterTouchTool - If you want to extend your TrackPad, this tool will let you.
Pomodoro Timer - Productivity at its simplest
Caffeine - Keeps your Display(s) awake
- I’m mainly using it to turn my menubar black, but it has other cool features as well.
Time Machine - How can you not have backup
DialUp Status - When using HSDPA
Wifi - Always connected
Volume Control
Battery Status
Digital Clock on 24 hour format
Lastly Spotlight
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