I’ve been making a concerted effort to get rid of apps I don’t use. Especially the command-line tools, which work great with open source projects. I don’t compile a lot of code on my Mac, but when I do, I use Apple’s free XCode suite. What I use for playing any video file Apple’s QuickTime Player can’t view. Mostly for historic reasons - my first GUI-based e-mail app was Netscape Communicator. Although I usually read mail via the servers’ web interfaces, when I want to use an app, I prefer Thunderbird. It’s also how I capture analog audio (via a USB interface) when ripping music from cassettes and vinyl. I don’t use it much, but it’s an awesome sound editor. An X11 GUI package, which I use when I want to run a GUI app from one of my Linux systems (which typically operate as headless systems). The backup program I started using after the people at Retrospect ticked me off with certain brain-dead pricing/licensing policies. The best resource for quickly looking up tech specs on Apple products. My favorite database, which I continue to pay for despite the high price. I also have Apple’s iWork suite installed, but I never use it). (I do have LibreOffice installed, but I rarely use it. Since it’s not too expensive, I stick with it. I could use an open source suite, but then I’d have to learn a whole new paradigm. I use Excel daily and Word at least a few times a month. It’s been my favorite for decades, going all the way back to the first releases of Netscape. Beause I’ve always loved this look.Īnd for those who might care, here are the apps that I use all the time. Lets you see available feeds for the current page and can add a feed to your preferred RSS reader app/site.Īnd the Mac OS X Jaguar Pinstripe classic theme. Puts back the RSS icon in the address bar, after Firefox removed it. Clicking it removes the last term from the current URL, letting you navigate “up” the page hierarchy of many web site. Since I often edit Markdown documents, this is a convenient way to render them without using a formal Markdown-HTML converter app or uploading the file to a server (like GitHub). Useful since I normally use the web interface and don’t keep a mail app running. A toolbar icon to let me know when there is unread mail in my GMail box. With several different filter subscriptions. Could you also mention the browser plugins/add-ons you must have? In many cases, they are just as important as standalone apps.
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