April 18, 2008 - 42.9MB - 46:48
In this week’s episode we discuss our top 10 Mac applications. As requested during the show, we’ve put together a list of links to the applications so you all can check them out! Let us know what you think of this episode by posting a comment below or sending us an email at fans@killthedesktop.com.
Show Notes
Chris’ List
1. Spaces - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spaces.html
2. Safari - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari.html
3. Quicksilver - http://www.blacktree.com/
4. Expose - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposé_(Mac_OS_X)
5. Terminal - http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html
6. Mail.app - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail.html
7. Adium - http://www.adiumx.com/
8. Things - http://www.culturedcode.com/things/
9. TextMate - http://macromates.com/
10. CoRD - http://cord.sourceforge.net/
Matt’s List
1. Quicksilver - http://www.blacktree.com/
2. Expose/Spaces - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spaces.html
3. Mail.app - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail.html
4. CoRD - http://cord.sourceforge.net/
5. Safari - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari.html
6. Things - http://www.culturedcode.com/things/
7. Parallels - http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/
8. Transmit - http://www.panic.com/transmit/
9. iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat.html
10. Screenflow - http://www.varasoftware.com/products/screenflow/
Honorable Mention
Cyberduck - http://cyberduck.ch/
iShowU - http://www.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Time Machine - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html
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April 21st, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Here’s a few items not on your list that should be. It’ll be interesting to see if any of these change your current choices.
Coda - http://panic.com/coda/
The Unarchiver - http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
MenuCalendarClock - http://www.objectpark.net/mcc.html
TinkerTool - http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html
VisualHub - http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
Handbrake - http://handbrake.fr/
April 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Thanks for the additional suggestions. I’ll put my personal feelings towards each here. Matt will probably respond as he loves Coda.
1) Coda. While it’s a nice looking application, it’s just not interesting enough to me. Perhaps since I’m a developer by day and I’m used to tools like Visual Studio and Eclipse, Coda just feels like a fancy looking Frontpage application. For me, it’s not worth $79, or the normal $99.
2) The Unarchiver. I had not seen this before. I use StuffIT Expander personally. Either one will serve my basic needs so I really can’t see a reason to pick one over the other. If something like a unzip tool made it to my top 10 list of Mac applications, I’d feel like we were talking about Windows instead. We briefly got into that conversation towards the end of the episode.
3) MenuCalendarClock. I had not seen this app either. But $20 for the “advanced features” of a calendar in your menu? This would be in your top 10… really?
4) TinkerTool. I’ve heard of this before. It seems pretty cool but wouldn’t make my top 10. I find the experience of OS X out of the box to be perfect for me. I can’t say I’d change much, if anything.
5) VisualHub. Very cool application. I don’t do much video work but if I did, I’m sure this would make my top 10.
6) Handbrake. You may be surprised but I’ve never used Handbrake. Ever. I certainly know about it but I’m not much for ripping DVDs. Matt on the other hand, well, yeah.