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==Text== | ==Text== | ||
− | [http://macromates.com/ TextMate] is a brilliant general purpose text editor | + | ===Coding=== |
− | + | *[http://macromates.com/ TextMate] is a brilliant general purpose text editor. The new standard. | |
− | + | *[http://www.barebones.com/ BBEdit] the old standard. [http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ TextWrangler] is a free mini-BBedit. | |
− | + | *[http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ SubEthaEdit] is a novel collaborative text editor that some use. | |
− | + | *[http://macvim.org/OSX/index.php Vim] | |
+ | *[http://www.porkrind.org/emacs/ Carbon Emacs]. | ||
+ | ===IDE=== | ||
+ | *[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xcode/ Xcode] is the C standard | ||
+ | *[http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse] is the Java standard | ||
+ | ===Tex=== | ||
+ | *[http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html TeXShop] is TeX specific any editor is good. | ||
+ | *[http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/latexit_en.php LaTeXiT] is for embedding quotations in any document. | ||
+ | *[http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ BibDesk] is a good bibliography manager. | ||
==Graphics== | ==Graphics== | ||
− | + | *[http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/ OmniGraffle] is great for creating posters, graphs and other vector based images. | |
+ | *[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape] is an Illustrator clone and is good for free form work. | ||
==Productivity== | ==Productivity== | ||
− | [http://www.neooffice.org/ NeoOffice] is a Mac friendly version of the free [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice]. | + | * [http://www.neooffice.org/ NeoOffice] is a Mac friendly version of the free [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice]. |
+ | *[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/office2004.aspx?pid=office2004 Office 2004] is availabe from the department. | ||
+ | *[http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/ Keynote] is Apple's presentation software. | ||
+ | *[http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/ Pages] is Apple's wordprocessing software.. | ||
− | Note | + | ===Note Taking=== |
+ | *[http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/mori Mori] | ||
+ | *[http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/ Yojimbo] | ||
+ | *[http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/ OmniOutliner] | ||
+ | *[http://homepage.mac.com/stewart.hector/home/software/software.html Notepad Widget] is good for quick notes | ||
==Browsing== | ==Browsing== | ||
− | [http://www.caminobrowser.org Camino] is based on the Mozilla rendering engine, but unlike Firefox it is "Mac-y" in nature. It uses Keychain, OS X elements, etc. You can find optimized versions on [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=12 MozillaZine] and extensions at [http://pimpmycamino.com PimpMyCamino]. | + | *[http://www.caminobrowser.org Camino] is based on the Mozilla rendering engine, but unlike Firefox it is "Mac-y" in nature. It uses Keychain, OS X elements, etc. You can find optimized versions on [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=12 MozillaZine] and extensions at [http://pimpmycamino.com PimpMyCamino]. |
− | [http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari/ Safari] is the standard OS X browser. [http://webkit.org/ WebKit] is Apple's open source (and often faster) browser engine. Find extensions at [http://pimpmycamino.com PimpMySafari]. | + | *[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari/ Safari] is the standard OS X browser. [http://webkit.org/ WebKit] is Apple's open source (and often faster) browser engine. Find extensions at [http://pimpmycamino.com PimpMySafari]. |
− | [http://www.firefox.com/ Firefox], is a cross-platform browser, but there are [http://www.beatnikpad.com/firefox processor optimized] versions available. Find extensions at [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/ Mozilla AddOns]. | + | *[http://www.firefox.com/ Firefox], is a cross-platform browser, but there are [http://www.beatnikpad.com/firefox processor optimized] versions available. Find extensions at [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/ Mozilla AddOns]. |
If you are using, Camino or Firefox, you'll note that you don't by default have the ability to render PDFs in the browser. If you're running on an Intel mac, you're up a creek without a paddle, switch to Safari if you really need it. If you're using a PowerPC mac then you can download [http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/ PDF Browser], which basically puts Preview.app into the browsers. | If you are using, Camino or Firefox, you'll note that you don't by default have the ability to render PDFs in the browser. If you're running on an Intel mac, you're up a creek without a paddle, switch to Safari if you really need it. If you're using a PowerPC mac then you can download [http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/ PDF Browser], which basically puts Preview.app into the browsers. | ||
==Chat== | ==Chat== | ||
− | + | ===AIM/MSN/YIM/Gtalk=== | |
+ | *[http://www.adiumx.com Adium] (based on Gaim but pretty) because it's [http://www.ksuther.com/chax/ customizable] and allows for all the chat protocols in one client. It has medicore file transfer support. | ||
+ | |||
+ | *Apple [http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat/ iChat] paired with [http://www.ksuther.com/chax/ Chax]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===VoIP=== | ||
+ | *[http://www.skype.com/ Skype] is the VoIP standard. | ||
+ | *[http://www.gizmoproject.com/ GizmoProject] is an OSS version of Skype. | ||
− | + | ===IRC=== | |
+ | *[http://colloquy.info/ Colloquy] is a popular Client | ||
+ | *[http://www.irssi.org/ irssi] is fro the CLI IRC crowd. | ||
==Mail== | ==Mail== | ||
− | + | *[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/ Mail]. Try [http://c-command.com/spamsieve/ SpamSieve] or it's free counterpart [http://junkmatcher.sourceforge.net/Home/index.html JunkMatcher] for better filtering. Use [http://harnly.net/software/letterbox/ LetterBox] to get three column layouts. | |
+ | *[http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ Thunderbird] | ||
+ | *[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2004/entourage2004.aspx?pid=entourage2004 Entourage] | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mail tends to be more popular because it's easy and simple. Entourage tends to be the reverse of Mail, and Thunderbird sits in the middle. | ||
==Calendar== | ==Calendar== | ||
− | + | [http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/ iCal] | |
+ | [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2004/entourage2004.aspx?pid=entourage2004 Entourage]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | iCal tends to be more popular because it's easy and simple. Entourage tends to be the reverse of iCal but has better Exchange server support. | ||
==RSS== | ==RSS== | ||
− | [http://vienna-rss.sourceforge.net/vienna21.php Vienna] is an open-source client that works well. [http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire NetNewsWire] (both pro and lite) are pretty good too. | + | *[http://vienna-rss.sourceforge.net/vienna21.php Vienna] is an open-source client that works well. |
+ | *[http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire NetNewsWire] (both pro and lite) are pretty good too. | ||
==PDF== | ==PDF== | ||
− | [http://pdfview.sourceforge.net/ PDFView] is vastly superior | + | *[http://pdfview.sourceforge.net/ PDFView] is vastly superior PDF Reader. |
+ | *[http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/ Reader 8] is Adobe's offering. | ||
+ | *[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/pdf/ Preview]. | ||
+ | *[http://www.yepthat.com/ yep] is like iPhoto for your PDFs | ||
==File Transfer== | ==File Transfer== | ||
− | + | ===FTP=== | |
+ | *[http://cyberduck.ch/ Cyberduck] offers good FTP/SFTP support. | ||
+ | *[http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/ Fugu] are nice but getting old. | ||
+ | *[http://www.fetchsoftworks.com/ Fetch] works and is free for students. | ||
+ | *[http://www.panic.com/transmit/ Transmit] is nicest of all but not free. | ||
− | + | ===Torrents=== | |
+ | *[http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Intel_Macs Azureus] if you need lots of functionality and plugs-ins. | ||
+ | *[http://sarwat.net/bittorrent/ Tomato Torrent] | ||
+ | *[http://transmission.m0k.org/ Transmission] | ||
+ | *[http://www.xtorrentp2p.com/ XTorrent]. | ||
− | + | ===General Downloading=== | |
+ | *[http://www.yazsoft.com/ Speed Download] is the most popular. | ||
+ | *[http://www.igetter.net/ iGetter] is free. | ||
==Music== | ==Music== | ||
− | + | ===Listening=== | |
+ | *[http://www.apple.com/itunes/ iTunes] is the standard and you can get some useful [http://www.dougscripts.com/ scripts]. | ||
+ | *[http://panic.com/audion/ Audion] old but good. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Managing=== | ||
+ | *[http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/MediaRage.html Media Rage] for doing managing artwork, tags, etc. | ||
+ | *[http://jay.tuley.name/pages/software#ieatbrainz IEatBrainz] for automatic tag management, *[http://nclasssoftware.com/index.php/nClassSoftware/corripio/ Corripio] *[http://www.widget-foundry.com/widgets/amazonart.htm Amazon Album Art widget] is widget for getting art. | ||
+ | *[http://homepage.mac.com/sroy/libra/ Libra] helps manage multiple libraries.. | ||
− | + | ===Making=== | |
+ | *[http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ Garageband] is pretty good if you don't want any "pro" apps. *[http://www.hairersoft.com/Amadeus.html Amadeus] is a great sound editor. | ||
+ | *[http://www.freeverse.com/soundstudio/ SoundStudio] is good too. | ||
+ | *[http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity] is an OSS editor. | ||
==Video== | ==Video== | ||
− | + | ===Watching=== | |
− | + | *[http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mac.html QuickTime] is great. Add [http://perian.org/ Perian] and [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx Flip4Mac] to make it better. | |
− | + | *[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC] plays almost all formats. | |
+ | *[http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/ MPlayer] is less popular but works as well. | ||
+ | ===Making==== | ||
+ | *[http://www.apple.com/finalcut/ iMovie HD, Final Cut Express HD, and Final Cut Studio]. Which one you pick depends on what you want to do (and spend). | ||
==Burning Software== | ==Burning Software== | ||
− | + | *[http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/burn/ Finder] has built-in burning. | |
+ | *[http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html Toast] is the burning standard. | ||
+ | *[http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/ Burn] is a free alternative. | ||
==Photos== | ==Photos== | ||
− | [http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/iPhoto iPhoto] | + | *[http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/iPhoto iPhoto] Simple and easy. *[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/family.html Photoshop] The legendary phototool. |
+ | *[http://www.lemkesoft.com/en/graphcon.htm GraphicConverter] Good for quick edits and batch processing. | ||
+ | *[http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/ Gimp.app] Not quite Photoshop, but close and free. | ||
==Navigation== | ==Navigation== | ||
− | + | *[http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html LaunchBar] gets you instant access to apps, documents, search engines, etc. It's extremely quick, stable and has limited features. | |
+ | *[http://blacktree.com/apps/quicksilver/ Quicksilver] is a similar to LaunchBar. It's open source, has a ton more features, but is less stable. | ||
+ | *[http://www.cocoatech.com/ Path Finder] A replacement for the Finder | ||
==Notification== | ==Notification== | ||
− | [http://growl.info/ Growl] allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications. | + | *[http://growl.info/ Growl] allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications. It's generally a useful thing to have installed. |
==Backup== | ==Backup== | ||
− | [http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html SuperDuper] makes a bootable image of your hard drive. [http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/chrono_overview.html Chronosync] makes versioned incremental backups of any folder you specify. | + | *[http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html SuperDuper] makes a bootable image of your hard drive. |
+ | *[http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/chrono_overview.html Chronosync] makes versioned incremental backups of any folder you specify. | ||
==Utilities== | ==Utilities== | ||
− | *[http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html OnyX] helps you run system maintenance tasks and configure hidden parameters. | + | *[http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html OnyX] helps you run system maintenance tasks and configure hidden parameters. |
*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack AppleJack] is a similar utility to OnyX but runs in single user mode. | *[http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack AppleJack] is a similar utility to OnyX but runs in single user mode. | ||
− | *[http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ MenuMeters] | + | *[http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ MenuMeters] is a system monitoring, cpu, network throughput, disk, memory, etc. |
+ | *[http://www.charlessoft.com/ Pacifist] Look into pkg, dmg, .tar, etc files and pull individual files out. | ||
+ | *[http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html UnArchiver] A much more capable replacement the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. | ||
+ | *[http://docs.blacktree.com/visor/visor Visor] a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake | ||
==Remote Desktop== | ==Remote Desktop== | ||
− | + | *[http://cord.sourceforge.net CoRD] Cocoa OSS client for Intel. | |
+ | *[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/misc/rdc_update_103.xml&secid=80&ssid=10&flgnosysreq=True Microsoft RDC] MS client for PPC. | ||
+ | *[http://rdesktop.darwinports.com/ rdesktop] in DarwinPorts | ||
+ | *[http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/rdesktop rdesktop] in Fink | ||
− | [http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ Chicken of the VNC] | + | *[http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ Chicken of the VNC] Cocoa VNC client |
+ | *[http://www.nomachine.com/download-client-macosx.php NX] FreeNX client | ||
+ | *[http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/ Remote Desktop] from Apple | ||
− | == | + | ==Windows== |
− | + | *[http://www.parallels.com/ Parallels] Popular virtualization solution | |
+ | *[http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ BootCamp] Boot a native copy of Windows | ||
+ | *[http://www.vmware.com/mac VMWare] Currently in beta. | ||
+ | *[http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/ CrossOver] Provides a Win32 API for some apps | ||
− | If you want know the differences, try this [http://www.notebookreview.com/printArticle.asp?newsid=2990 Guide for Choosing Boot Camp or Parallels to Run Windows on an Apple MacBook] | + | If you do a lot of hardware or graphics intensive work, use Bootcamp. If you need a full fledged Windows install try Parallels. If you only have one app and it's supported by Crossover, then use that. If you want know the differences, try this [http://www.notebookreview.com/printArticle.asp?newsid=2990 Guide for Choosing Boot Camp or Parallels to Run Windows on an Apple MacBook] |
Revision as of 05:56, 17 December 2006
This list are the applications that most use in CSE. We try to focus on applications that are free, inexpensive and open source. If such applications don't exist, we list the best piece of software in that category. If you want a specific piece of software, try MacUpdate and VersionTracker. You can also send your question to the mailing list.
Contents
Text
Coding
- TextMate is a brilliant general purpose text editor. The new standard.
- BBEdit the old standard. TextWrangler is a free mini-BBedit.
- SubEthaEdit is a novel collaborative text editor that some use.
- Vim
- Carbon Emacs.
IDE
Tex
- TeXShop is TeX specific any editor is good.
- LaTeXiT is for embedding quotations in any document.
- BibDesk is a good bibliography manager.
Graphics
- OmniGraffle is great for creating posters, graphs and other vector based images.
- Inkscape is an Illustrator clone and is good for free form work.
Productivity
- NeoOffice is a Mac friendly version of the free OpenOffice.
- Office 2004 is availabe from the department.
- Keynote is Apple's presentation software.
- Pages is Apple's wordprocessing software..
Note Taking
- Mori
- Yojimbo
- OmniOutliner
- Notepad Widget is good for quick notes
Browsing
- Camino is based on the Mozilla rendering engine, but unlike Firefox it is "Mac-y" in nature. It uses Keychain, OS X elements, etc. You can find optimized versions on MozillaZine and extensions at PimpMyCamino.
- Safari is the standard OS X browser. WebKit is Apple's open source (and often faster) browser engine. Find extensions at PimpMySafari.
- Firefox, is a cross-platform browser, but there are processor optimized versions available. Find extensions at Mozilla AddOns.
If you are using, Camino or Firefox, you'll note that you don't by default have the ability to render PDFs in the browser. If you're running on an Intel mac, you're up a creek without a paddle, switch to Safari if you really need it. If you're using a PowerPC mac then you can download PDF Browser, which basically puts Preview.app into the browsers.
Chat
AIM/MSN/YIM/Gtalk
- Adium (based on Gaim but pretty) because it's customizable and allows for all the chat protocols in one client. It has medicore file transfer support.
VoIP
- Skype is the VoIP standard.
- GizmoProject is an OSS version of Skype.
IRC
- Mail. Try SpamSieve or it's free counterpart JunkMatcher for better filtering. Use LetterBox to get three column layouts.
- Thunderbird
- Entourage
Mail tends to be more popular because it's easy and simple. Entourage tends to be the reverse of Mail, and Thunderbird sits in the middle.
Calendar
iCal tends to be more popular because it's easy and simple. Entourage tends to be the reverse of iCal but has better Exchange server support.
RSS
- Vienna is an open-source client that works well.
- NetNewsWire (both pro and lite) are pretty good too.
- PDFView is vastly superior PDF Reader.
- Reader 8 is Adobe's offering.
- Preview.
- yep is like iPhoto for your PDFs
File Transfer
FTP
- Cyberduck offers good FTP/SFTP support.
- Fugu are nice but getting old.
- Fetch works and is free for students.
- Transmit is nicest of all but not free.
Torrents
- Azureus if you need lots of functionality and plugs-ins.
- Tomato Torrent
- Transmission
- XTorrent.
General Downloading
- Speed Download is the most popular.
- iGetter is free.
Music
Listening
Managing
- Media Rage for doing managing artwork, tags, etc.
- IEatBrainz for automatic tag management, *Corripio *Amazon Album Art widget is widget for getting art.
- Libra helps manage multiple libraries..
Making
- Garageband is pretty good if you don't want any "pro" apps. *Amadeus is a great sound editor.
- SoundStudio is good too.
- Audacity is an OSS editor.
Video
Watching
- QuickTime is great. Add Perian and Flip4Mac to make it better.
- VLC plays almost all formats.
- MPlayer is less popular but works as well.
Making=
- iMovie HD, Final Cut Express HD, and Final Cut Studio. Which one you pick depends on what you want to do (and spend).
Burning Software
Photos
- iPhoto Simple and easy. *Photoshop The legendary phototool.
- GraphicConverter Good for quick edits and batch processing.
- Gimp.app Not quite Photoshop, but close and free.
- LaunchBar gets you instant access to apps, documents, search engines, etc. It's extremely quick, stable and has limited features.
- Quicksilver is a similar to LaunchBar. It's open source, has a ton more features, but is less stable.
- Path Finder A replacement for the Finder
Notification
- Growl allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications. It's generally a useful thing to have installed.
Backup
- SuperDuper makes a bootable image of your hard drive.
- Chronosync makes versioned incremental backups of any folder you specify.
Utilities
- OnyX helps you run system maintenance tasks and configure hidden parameters.
- AppleJack is a similar utility to OnyX but runs in single user mode.
- MenuMeters is a system monitoring, cpu, network throughput, disk, memory, etc.
- Pacifist Look into pkg, dmg, .tar, etc files and pull individual files out.
- UnArchiver A much more capable replacement the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X.
- Visor a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake
Remote Desktop
- CoRD Cocoa OSS client for Intel.
- Microsoft RDC MS client for PPC.
- rdesktop in DarwinPorts
- rdesktop in Fink
- Chicken of the VNC Cocoa VNC client
- NX FreeNX client
- Remote Desktop from Apple
Windows
- Parallels Popular virtualization solution
- BootCamp Boot a native copy of Windows
- VMWare Currently in beta.
- CrossOver Provides a Win32 API for some apps
If you do a lot of hardware or graphics intensive work, use Bootcamp. If you need a full fledged Windows install try Parallels. If you only have one app and it's supported by Crossover, then use that. If you want know the differences, try this Guide for Choosing Boot Camp or Parallels to Run Windows on an Apple MacBook