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Sparrow - Super simple email client, the closest (and best) thing you can get to native Gmail on the Mac. It’s got a one up on Mail.app as well since it actually has a menubar icon.
Adium - MSN is still my protocol of choice and since Microsoft Messenger is horrible on the Mac I use Adium, fitted out with a nice iChat style menubar icon which you can find over at adiumxtras.com.
Tweetie - I’m still stuck on PowerPC, so Tweetie is my best option. Pity me. It may not be the best, but it’s still a solid choice even now.
Dropbox - Self explanatory super sync’y goodness.
Keyboard Maestro - A powerful macro program I’m playing with before I bite the bullet and buy it. I use an amazing alternative menubar icon made by Jono Hunt over at Iconaholic.
Pastebot Sync - More super sync’y goodness. Lets me get copied items to and from my iPod Touch and my Mac easily.
Built in stuff - LsSaAlerter (I have no idea how to get rid of it), AirPort, Volume, Time and Spotlight (I can’t get rid of it either so it just sits there, Alfred is my choice of launcher instead).
(From Huw Martin)
: For my TV shows delight. It automatically downloads the .torrent file and opens my torrent download client when a new favorite show appears in the net.
Adium: My favorite IM client. Using the Marten-Plain White menu bar icons set.
Sparrow: Best desktop Gmail client. Period.
Skitch: I love Skitch for quick capturing and sketch notes. I use in conjuntion with Droplr (see below) because I prefer a shared image page without much clutter.
Alfred: Applications launcher on steroids. I really like the command customization, and the Powerpack rocks!
Dropbox: Should I describe it?
Droplr: It let you store images, files, texts and short URLs by just dragging anything to the menubar icon. I mostly use it with Skitch to capture -> drag -> get link.
PasteBot: Copy and paste directly to my iOS devices.
: Only for quickly adding events/reminders to my Google Calendar, I don’t use the Gmail notifier because Sparrow manages it just fine.
Typinator: A really useful text expander tool, for quick snippets and signatures.
MagicPrefs: Enhanced functionality for my Magic Mouse and Macbook Pro trackpad. Haven’t tried other alternatives, but it works amazingly.
Evernote: Love to have everything stored in one place. Even my bills and tickets. Syncing with all my devices is the best thing.
Caffeine: Because my Mac also needs a dose.
: Very cool alarm clock with nice features like use your own music, and less intrusive than Awaken. And best of all, free!
Radium: Best online radio player for Mac. Only lives in your menubar, no useless windows. Just plays the radio and also scrobbles to Last.fm.
And the Apple ones: Time Machine, Bluetooth, Airport, Sound, Battery, Hour and Spotlight.
(From Leandro Ardissone)
Dropbox, Droplr, , Pukka, ScreenShade, CoverSutra, Today, Pastebot Sync Server, FastScripts, TinyAlarm, Tags, Caffeine, SlimBatteryMonitor, AirPort, Volume, and Spotlight.
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Clipboard History - For saving clipboard items including images.
Dropbox - Don’t think I have to explain.
Pastebot Sync - A great way to share copied items between a Mac and an iPhone.
Caffeine - To keep my Mac from going to sleep.
iStat Menus - Had some problems with the CPU usage and the temperature a while ago. That’s why I’m monitoring them.
Wifi - Need to switch the Wifi network from time to time.
Input source - I use three different languages (English, Korean and Japanese) on my Mac.
Battery - Actually, another iStat Menus.
Time and Spotlight.
(From Camino)
Skitch: For capturing screen-shots.
QuickCal: I use less because I want to see my appointments and more because I was an early user of 30boxes on the web and loved the ability to write an english language appointment, e.g. Oil Change tomorrow at 9am.
TypeIt4Me:There are plenty of apps that do what TypeIt4Me does, but I’ve used this for a while and it never lets me down. I use it for two main purposes, shortcut typing and correcting my spelling on words that I often misspell. So if I have to type in my Gmail address, I created a shortcut and I just type m-y-g-m without the hyphens and it changes to my actual email address.
Dropbox: I think everyone has Dropbox at this point.
SizeUp: Easily size up your windows into half or quarter of a screen via keyboard shortcuts. Super handy.
Pastebot: I use this to paste something from my Mac that I want to use on my iPhone or iPad rather than type it out.
Spirited Away: Set which apps you want to fade away in the background after a certain period of not using them.
Pomodoro: I just started this a couple months ago and find it helpful. Work for 25 minutes, play for 5, repeat.
Hazel: Folder automated actions. I use this to monitor clean up my several folders including my downloads, desktop, and images.
Caffeine: I use this one constantly. Turns off all screensaver and screen shut-off actions.
LogMeIn: Log in to my Mac from my iPad.
: Turn my iPad into another display of my Mac.
: I attempt to send all my notifications through Growl so I can turn them all of at once when I wish and they all show up in the same spot when I leave them on.
MobileMe: I sync my contacts, calendar and assorted other mac pieces to mobile me, including my photos.
Time Machine: In addition to using Crashplan and Dropbox, I have at-home backup using Time Machine to a 500gb external hard drive.
Spaces: My on-again off-again love affair with Spaces is on again. I do most of my daily work in Space 1, leave Omnifocus by itself in Space 2, put all my music and chat in Space 3, and all my writing e.g. Scrivener, TextMate in Space 4.
Assorted Apple stuff: Bluetooth, Wi-fi, Volume, Battery, Time, Eject Drive, Accounts and Spotlight, which unlike many other people, works really well for me.
(From Kevin Farner)
Alfred - Spotlight who?
PhotoSync - No cables recquired! Sync your photos to your iOS devices with ease.
Pastebot Sync - Another great Tapbots app.
Dropbox - I don’t how I could live without this. I use it to sync up all my iDevices & when I’m on the go.
Droplr - A simple drop will do… (see explanation below)
CloudApp - To the Cloud! I share so many links, images, videos, etc. with this it’s second nature.
Bowtie - Simple way to navigate your iTunes music on your desktop in a clean & beautiful way.
Sparrow - My go-to email client on the Mac.
- I’ve tried others but always come back to this because of its many features.
- The best way to get your facebook notifications on your Mac.
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Flux - monitor color adjuster based on the time of day (just installed, found it via this site!)
CoverSutra - iTunes controller, I use it for the keyboard controls
- server utility for streaming videos to the iOS devices
Dropbox - awesome online file sync service
Default Folder X - remembers your recent & favorite folders in Open/Save dialog windows (must-have Mac utility!)
TextExpander - expand snippets of text based on short text triggers, and much more (another must-have Mac utility)
Hazel - handy file automation tool. Folder Actions on steroids.
ClipMenu - excellent clipboard history manager
Pantone Huey - monitor calibration utility, used with the hardware calibrator
Pastebot server - copy/paste from Mac to iOS utility
CrashPlan - online backup service, beta menubar utility
Screens Connect - server for the VNC iOS app Screens
ChronoSync - backup/sync software
StreamToMe server - another iOS media streaming utility
Compost - Trash manager
ShoveBox - Note taking utility
Evernote - sync notes to other Macs/PCs and iOS devices
RemoteTap server - another VNC iOS app
- awesome notifications utility
ForeverSave - versioned file backups
Little Snitch monitor - network monitor
iStat Menus - hard drives, RAM, and CPUs modules active
OS X ites: Bluetooth, Airport, iChat, iSync, Script Editor, Keychains, Sounds, Accounts, and finally custom time/date via iStat Menus.
Yeah, I have way too much crap up there, I know. But I’m used to it now.
(From , cartoonist and humorous illustrator)