Another Word for Nerd

Everyone’s doing it, so I’ll list my favorite OS X apps as well, the stuff I consider “essential”:

• Desktop Manager, for multiple “virtual workspaces”
• MenuMeters, for CPU load graphs and memory use status on the menubar
• WeatherPop Advance, for menubar weather status
• Temperature Monitor, to keep an eye on the guts of my MDD “Wind Tunnel” dual G4
• NetNewsWire, my preferred RSS/RDF/Atom reader
• FFView, the closest Mac equivalent to CDisplay for Windows that I’ve seen, for reading comic book archives
• MissingMediaBurner, for when I need to burn some oddball CD format or make CDs/VCDs
• SuperCal to keep my monitor nice and calibrated and sharp
• VueScan for my flatbed scanners
• ffmpegX for video conversion

For the iBook, I also use

• SideTrack, to give me right-click ability with the trackpad
• uControl to remap CapsLock into another Control key
• iStumbler, MacStumbler, and KisMAC for wireless network sniffing

September 19th: I realized I forgot to list a *lot* of things.

• Photoshop Elements 2.0 - finally paid for this and got rid of my pirated copy.
• VideoLan Client (VLC) - plays any media format under the sun
• Quicktime MPEG-2 Playback Component - well worth the money.
• Azureus is the best BitTorrent client I’ve found for the Mac.
• Firefox because GMail doesn’t play well with Safari sometimes
• iLife ‘04, so I can have Garageband.
• GIMP for stuff I dont want to use Photoshop for (requires Apple’s X11)
• TeXShop for document preparation
• LimeWire is my favorite P2P app after BitTorrent
• TinkerTool lets me get rid of superflous animations and tweak system settings
• Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection Client for OS X lets me work from home some days.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2004 at 6:26 pm
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