David Pierce posted this article on March 17, 2010 when he had been using a Mac about 8 months.
He recommend the following applications as ones he regularly uses.
1. Fluid (Free) – Turns any webpage into its own, standalone application.
2. Adium (Free) – “I can’t really say Adium does much that iChat doesn’t, it just does it better.”
3. Alarm Clock 2 (Free) – Set multiple alarms.
4. Droplr (Free) – A “menu bar application that lets me drag and drop a picture, screenshot, note or file onto a little icon. Droplr automatically uploads the file, and gives me a link to it.”
5. Mailplane ($24.95, 30-day free trial) – for things missing from Gmail.
6. uTorrent (Free) – for Bit Torrent connections
7. Hulu Desktop (Free) –
8. ShoveBox ($24.95, 30-day trial) – A huge storage bin… Just drag a link, text, image, or whatever into Shovebox, and then it lives in the little menu bar icon until you need it again. It’s like copy and paste, times infinity… ShoveBox is, essentially, a digital short-term memory.
9. AppCleaner (Free) – Helps wit deletion of applications
10. Evernote (Free) – Another storage solution that has iPhone and Windows versions.
11. Jing (Free) – With, like, three clicks, you can take a video or picture of your screen and share it on the Web or save it to your desktop.
Of course the comments had more suggestions. While there are a couple of these I hadn’t known, he hasn’t convinced me that they are the 11 most apps use should have. What about VLC? And how about Dropbox?
See the full article here: http://www.digitizd.com/2010/03/17/11-must-have-mac-apps/
