Your Top 10 Software Applications for Mac OS X

I saw a thread about this in the Windows section of the forum and thought it would be interesting to see what everyone lists as their top ten software installations/downloads, in order or in no particular order.

I'm new to the Mac with my first Macbook although I've been using a Mac for over a year at work, and I dont think I even have ten applications to list.

Firefox
Frostwire
VLC
Adium
Skype
Eclipse
Fugu
Microsoft Office 2008

3rd party apps only please.

 

Here's what I use most often

Firefox
VLC
Mero
Office for Mac 08
Adium
Opera
Aperture

 

You both forgot Quicksilver.

 

firefox
itunes
mac messenger
skype
SmcControlFan

 

I've never heard of it but I'll check it out.

 

Path Finder (literally can't live without it cause Finder sucks the big one...)
Adium
VMWare Fusion
LightRoom
Gimmesometune
Quicktunes
SMC Fan control

 

Adium
Firefox
VMware Fusion
Office '08
VLC

Anyone know a good program to un-zip "rar" files?

 

unrarx is alright.

adium
safari
parallels
terminal
fugu
MacPymol
Swiss PDB viewer
Office 2004
Quicksilver
Mail

 

Cool thx! I think its about as fast winrar on windows (not sure), but the icon is kinda fugly lol.

 

Firefox 3
Adium
Pages
Photoshop CS3
Apple Mail
SMCFanControl
InDesign CS3

I don't really have ten either . Theoretically I use Numbers a bit to edit Excel documents, but yeah, these are my main ones.

 

I'm to lazy to think of 10 and most of them have been said already but Skitch. I freaking love it.
Oh and Boxee. Love that one too.

 

Hmmm mine are:
3rd party:
Firefox
Adium
Cyber duck
PS, FL, AI, AE(only a little of AE)
Word/Open Office
VLC
Tranmission
iStats, iTunes Album Art (Widgets)

1st party:
Mail, Address Book, iCal
Motion, Final Cut

Games:
WoW

 

Crossover, VMWare Fusion

Now, if only I could find a torrent program with proper scheduling support.

 

Cant agree with you more. Pathfinder is awesome, just dont wanna spend the money on the upgrade atm.

But my list:

Pathfinder
Pathfinder (yes it deserves two spots, lol)
Firefox 2
Unison
MacParDeLuxe
VLC
Plex
Azureus

 

Not in any order:

Firefox
Thunderbird
Quicksilver
iTunes
Transmission
Lightroom
VMWare Fusion
PS CS3
Adium
Skype

 

In no specific order:

Papers
Transmit
skype
PS4
niceplayer
perian
sizziling keys
caffeine
iTap
visualhub
office 08
iStat mini widget

apple:
iTunes
iCal
iWeb
Mail
safari
iphoto

 

Firefox 3
Word 2008
Skype
Mac-MSN
Perian (extension to Quicktime)
SMC FanControl
iStat Pro (dashboard)
Transmission
VLC
iPhoto

 

Third Party
Firefox
Cyberduck
Transmission
Bookends
Word 2008
Endo
Ecto
Handbrake
The Missing Sync
UnRarX
and Adium for #11
1st party
Mail
iTunes
Preview

 

Transmission x 5
Photoshop CS3 x 5

 

My 10 Most used non Apple programs

1)Adium (universal IM tool)
2)Skype (voip and video calling)
3)MS Office 2008 for Mac
4)OmniGraffle (Visio like)
5)OmniPlan (MS Project like)
6)DBVisualizer (universal db tool)
7)Parellels (VM for XP and a few windows apps)
8)Yojimbo (information collector/organizer)
9)SuperDuper! (backup)
10)****tail (system maintenance utility) Edit - c.o.c.k.t.a.i.l.

 

VMWare Fusion
Cararra 6
Bryce 6
QuickSilver
Safari/Firefox
Adium
iTunes
SMC Fan Control

And one very important dashboard widget: iStat Pro

 

Just got my MBP this week so all I have is a few ....

Firefox 3
1Password (great replacement for windows roboform)
Office for Mac 08
iStat pro (a wiley widget)

Forgot about Sam's rec for Quicksilver (think I read it in his switchers guide...??) So add that one ...

 

Firefox 3
Office 2008
Adium
NetNewsWire
Cord (Remote Desktop)
VLC
Vmware Fusion
Transmission
QuickSilver
iTunes

 

Man, I wish there was an iSync plugin for the iphone. It's a little stupid when my Nokia phone played nicer with a Mac than their own phone.

 

Great thread. Hmm.. people have covered most of mine. Hint: You can check "Recent Items" under the Apple symbol for the last 10 apps you used.

I am going to supply reasons for including these apps in my list too because of the apps above that I don't know, I have no idea what they are doing or why I should have them.

3rd party:
iStat Pro
smcFanControl and sfc-3 (my own tuned version of smc - hehehe)
Shimo - If you are forced to use Cisco VPN, this is a life saver
Eclipse - reason I run out of memory with 4GB. Thanks IBM!
Azureus - new name is Vuze but I run it in "classic" mode where it's still good old Azureus.
iGetter - Fast downloads. YMMV but it works wonders where I am because the ISP is limiting bandwidth of single downloads.
CyberDuck - Love it for ssh / sftp sessions because it saves me from having to use vi to edit files. Just open an sftp and hit cmd-K to edit with TextWrangler
TextWrangler! - just as quirky as BBEdit, but it does a few things that are worth its weight in gold, such as converting MS-DOS line breaks to unix line breaks. And regexp search and replace.
OmniFocus - I am just getting into it and I am someone who was never able to use any kind of task management software. But OmniFocus, I am quickly getting addicted to. It's awesome.
Firefox - because 1 browser is not enough
Camino - because 2 browsers are not enough
VLC
Skype

1st party: Nearly all of 'em.

 

I'm a new Mac user, having just bought my first Mac (one of the new 13-inch MacBooks) after using Windows machines all my life (going back to Windows/386 in 1987). I love this Mac! It's a pity I waited this long to make the plunge.

Anyway, with just barely a week of Mac experience, here's my favorite apps so far:

1. Camino (browser)
2. VLC (media player)
3. Adium (IM)
4. Skype (telephony)
5. CyberDuck (FTP)
6. NVU (HTML editor)
7. Microsoft Office 2008 (a necessary evil in my job)
8. QuickSilver (laucher / finder)
9. TextWrangler (editor)
10. AppZapper (app eraser)

 

Firefox
Komposer
Filezilla
Thunderbird
Cisco VPN
Tarantella
xemacs
GCC
Yahoo Messenger (for phone calls)

 

a little OT,but congrats!

 

Sorry, what's OT?

 

Refer to The Dictionary of NBR.

 

Nobody's mentioned Delicious Library yet?

 

Odd. I thought a list of my Top Ten with an explanation of how I got there was completely on topic.

 

noooo,my "congrats" was OT

 

Ah my bad, thanks!

 

no problem,enjoy your macbook!

 

I can't believe no one has mentioned TextMate yet...

 

Firefox
VMWare
Office 2008
SMC Fan Control
Bit Torrent
Skype

 

Adium
Skype
Xslimmer
Cocktail
Mozy
SupeDuper
Omnigraffle
Yojimbo
PdfPen
SnapNdrag

 

More than 10, but...

Apple:
Mail
iCal
Address Book
iTunes
iCal

3rd Party:
Finale
Premiere Pro CS4
MS Office 08 for Mac
Adium
Quicksilver
Firefox
Maya
Handbrake
Audacity
VLC

 

Here are some I use quite often, and I love them

Aperture
PixelMator
iWork 09
LiveType
Onyx
Plex
Quicksilver
Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 ( I don't love it, but it's ok)
Skype
Handbrake

 

1. Dropbox
2. Quicksilver
3. Firefox
4. Omnioutliner
5. Transmission
6. Microsoft Word
7. Zotero(plug in for Firefox)
8. Terminal
9. Onyx
10. Itunes

 

I didnt see anyone mention burn. its pretty good and easy to use.

 

1.) Pages
2.) OmniOutliner
3.) Preview (yes, it rocks)
4.) MatLab - does this count even though it's X11?
5.) TextEdit
6.) Grapher
7.) Skype
8.) Mathematica
9.) Mail
10.) Papers

 

office 2008
filezilla
toast
adobe cs3
vlc
chicken vnc
ffmpegx
skype
bittorent
smultron

 

IPSecuritas (use this like MEGA lots)
Remote Desktop Connection
Traktor DJ Studio 3
VMWare Fusion
Crossover
Ventrilo
DOSBox
SWF & FLV Player
Immunity CANVAS
DMGConverter

As you can probably tell -_- I do a lot of cross platform stuff.