Best OS X programs...

[mrbassman03]

My choices:

Adium
Quicksilver
VLC
Firefox

[helnwhls]

1. love the firefox

I thought safari was cool, but it only took about 30 minutes and I was converted.

[chiburb]

2. Can you elaborate?

I'm a Mac newbie, but LOVE Safari. What are the main reasons for switching?
Thx.

[helnwhls]

3. speed of load

no hang with mutiple windows. Tabs are nice. I feel safer with it's password and cookie management.

Safari was starting to give me a stutter on page load that was annoying.

EDIT: All the plug ins.

[The Spirit of JFK]

4. Hmm...without a category it's tough to narrow down.

I DO like Quicksilver as well....


A few other utilities that I can't live without: MacJanitor, DragThing, and Konfabulator.

As for other categories, I do web stuff for a living and LOVE BBEdit. It uses little RAM and has a ton of features for OS X. Same goes for Flash MX.

I also think Photoshop 7 is phenomenal.

[emulatorloo]

5. Ok - Here are mine

Logic audio Pro
Final Cut Express
Firefox
Pro Tool LE 6

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. the iLife bundle

hands down

[mrbassman03]

8. ahhh, but of course...

How could i forget... some of the best!

[bbernardini]

7. Netflix Freak is a good one...

Much quicker and easier than navigating the Netflix web site.

[turbo_satan]

9. AcquisitionX

for filesharing.

[mrbassman03]

11. No way! Acquisition sucks!!!

Get Xfactor... soooo much better.

http://www.xfactor.cc/

[geekgrrl]

14. I've always used Limewire- I'll have to check that out n/t

[Squeegee]

21. Poisoned

is much better IMHO. Check it out!

[mrbassman03]

22. I was using Poisoned, until I found Xfactor... the best IMO.

Try it out! It's free!

[LifeDuringWartime]

10. love firefox

Firefox
Adium
Azureus (BitTorrent)
xACT (for SHN/FLAC conversion)
iTunes
Thunderbird (email)

[politicat]

12. Mariner Write and Mariner Calc

Mariner makes stellar substitutes for the Office suite. No powerpoint sub yet, but that's fine with me at the moment. I use both, but have written several long works on Mariner Write. It's wonderfully flexible.

I happen to be happy with the i-suite. I like mail, iChat, iTunes and Safari. I even like iPhoto for quick editing. It's not Photoshop, but then again, I rarely need Photoshop.

Pcat

[geekgrrl]

13. adium, firefox, graphic converter, macjournal, cocktail, spamsieve... n/t

[OSX]

15. Yoda...

Project Builder
BBEdit
CodeWarrior
iPoker
Adobe Photoshop
Image Capture
Disk Warrior
Terminal
Console
X11

[alfredo]

16. Solscape had been updated.

If you haven't tried it, please do. It monitors the Sun and earth.

http://www.jschilling.net/software.php Solscape.

[gold_bug]

17. something neato: Bwana

let's you read manpages in your web browser.

http://www.bruji.com/bwana/

[alfredo]

18. I like that.

Now that my eyes aren't as good as they used to be, this could be very useful.

[Florida_Geek]

19. Hate to say it but I like Entourage the best for email

I tried Thunderbird and a couple others but Entourage worked the best.

I LOVE FoldersSynchronizer

I backup my stuff to my iPod.....

Firefox, Hogwasher for usenet, VLC

[realisticphish]

20. VLC and FireFox, hell yeah

firefox goes without saying, but a video collector like me is indebted to VLC...those bastards with their avi codecs :mad:


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[elfin]

23. StickyBrain

Fabulous for researching and just plain organizing.

[stepnw1f]

24. Maya

Painter
Photoshop