After being a Mac user for more than a year, I’ve already developed workflows on how I do things on a mac settled in on the software that I use on a regular basis. Below is that list divided into those that I use daily and those that I use at least every couple of days.
Daily
- Adium – for instant messaging
- BackBlaze – for continuous daily backups
- Caffeine – for preventing the Mac from sleeping
- Firefox 3.5 + Firebug 1.5 – for web development and checking how sites were built(still haven’t gotten used to WebKit’s inspector)
- Gmail (via Fluid) – for well, email
- iTunes – for playing music and syncing podcasts to the iPhone
- Quicksilver – for launching programs via the keyboard
- Terminal – for doing some command line magic
- TextMate – for typing, viewing, editing text/code
- Tweetie – for tweeting (one of my favorite desktop twitter clients)
- WebKit Nightly – for regular browsing
Every few days
- Acorn – for ocassional image editing
- BetterZip – for zipping files, specially for sending to non-Mac users.
- CSSEdit – for projects where i need to develop a *lot* of CSS, otherwise I’d do everything in TextMate
- Dropbox – for sending/sharing and syncing files
- Grabup – for quick sending of screenshots
- iCal/Address Book – for scheduling and keeping tabs on contacts (now trying out syncing with Google Calendar and Google Contacts via SpanningSync)
- MAMP – for web development since I had one project that needed GD
- NetNewsWire – for reading feeds
- Time Machine – for regular backups
- Transmit – for file transfers (FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3)
- VLC – for playing media files
- VMWare Fusion – for running stuff on Windows
- Yojimbo – for keeping passwords mostly, sometimes a few notes
Next post would be what I use on the iPhone since I’ve been using it for exactly a month already.
