Saturday, December 1, 2012

10 pieces of software you need on a Mac

I originally wrote this on my other blog, Figaw's Helpdesk, but I thought it was more appropriate to share it here.. so I put it both places!

This is a list containing much of the software I install first thing when I have formatted my, or get a new, mac.

1: Alfred (AppStore)- it is Spotlight 2.0, faster searches and you can customize it to enable searching on google etc. install it and set the CMD+space hotkey for this program instead of spotlight!

2: Dropbox (www.dropbox.com)- Auto backup software. It's like a usb-drive, but connected to all of your computers, smartphones and tablets simultaneously!

3: Ji-Touch (www.jitouch.com) - Adds +100 gestures and shortcuts to the multitouch trackpad

4: Caffeine (AppStore)- Prevents the computer "falling asleep" or the screen becoming dark

5: UnRarX (www.unrarx.com)- small and simple .rar file extractor

6: jDownloader (www.jdownloader.org)- download manager which automatically grabs links from your clipboard

7: Bejeweled 3 (www.popcap.com)- .. because it's an awesome game!


9: TeamViewer - Remote desktop's made easy, have people help you, or help others! With computerrelated problems from their/your own home.
10: VLC - media/dvd/iso/music/everything player
(www.videolan.org)

11: Skype - Voice and video communication
(www.skype.com)

12: TeamSpeak and Ventrilo - voice communication, used for gaming or meetings where video isn't needed, or where you just want an awesome sound and have some other solution for broadcasting video!
(www.teamspeak.com) & (www.ventrilo.com)

13: Split & Concat - rar/zip splitter, awesome for when you have to move files bigger than 4gb, mac's fat-system doesn't allow this.
14: Quicktime Broadcaster - streaming your screen when working or gaming. A bit rough to setup but simply an awesome tool!)
15: Espresso - Web development program with build in FTP client
16: Xampp - local apache/php, mysql og ftp server, for programming PHP-sites offline
(http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html)

17: Adium - msn (and lots of other IM clients..) for mac
18: Textmate - Absolutely awesome text editor with syntax highlighting
(http://macromates.com/)

19: ShiftIt - Shortcuts for "really" maximizing windows, or aligning them to either side of the screen windows style.
(https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt)

20: LittleSnitch - software for monitoring and blocking the internet access of programs
(www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch)

These might not be the most awesome and best programs in the world, but it's the programs I use since I've come to love either how simple or easy they are to work with, that they accomplish their specific task in such a great way or that it's just a free program! - have fun!

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