Difference between revisions of "Mac Users:Suggested Applications"

From PublicWiki
Jump to: navigation, search
(Mail)
(Office)
 
(22 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 3: Line 3:
 
==Text==
 
==Text==
 
===Coding===
 
===Coding===
*[http://macromates.com/ TextMate] is a brilliant general purpose text editor. The new standard.
+
*[http://macromates.com/ TextMate] is a brilliant general purpose text editor. It's good for coding, taking notes, managing repositories, latexing, etc. It's the hot new standard in OS X.
*[http://www.barebones.com/ BBEdit] the old standard. [http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ TextWrangler] is a free mini-BBedit.
+
*[http://www.barebones.com/ BBEdit] the old standard from the OS 9 days. Still very popular.
 +
*[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://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ SubEthaEdit] is a novel collaborative text editor that some use.
*[http://macvim.org/OSX/index.php Vim]
+
*[http://macvim.org/OSX/index.php Vim] in OS X.
*[http://www.porkrind.org/emacs/ Carbon Emacs].  
+
*[http://www.porkrind.org/emacs/ Carbon Emacs] is good for those who want an OS X native Emacs.
 +
 
 
===IDE===
 
===IDE===
*[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xcode/ Xcode] is the C standard
+
*[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xcode/ Xcode] is the Obj-C standard, but is good for all flavors of C (and some Java). If you are building OS X native software, you should use this.
*[http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse] is the Java standard
+
*[http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse] is the Java standard.
 +
 
 
===Tex===
 
===Tex===
 
*[http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html TeXShop] is TeX specific any editor is good.
 
*[http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html TeXShop] is TeX specific any editor is good.
Line 21: Line 24:
  
 
==Productivity==
 
==Productivity==
* [http://www.neooffice.org/ NeoOffice] is a Mac friendly version of the free [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice].
+
===Office===
*[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/office2004.aspx?pid=office2004 Office 2004] is availabe from the department.
+
*[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.  Go ask Support for install media.
 
*[http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/ Keynote] is Apple's presentation software.
 
*[http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/ Keynote] is Apple's presentation software.
 
*[http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/ Pages] is Apple's wordprocessing software..
 
*[http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/ Pages] is Apple's wordprocessing software..
Line 31: Line 35:
 
*[http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/ OmniOutliner]
 
*[http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/ OmniOutliner]
 
*[http://homepage.mac.com/stewart.hector/home/software/software.html Notepad Widget] is good for quick notes
 
*[http://homepage.mac.com/stewart.hector/home/software/software.html Notepad Widget] is good for quick notes
 +
*[http://notational.net/ Notational Velocity] is an ultra-lightweight note-taking application.
  
==Browsing==
+
==Web==
 +
===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]. Useful extensions are [http://www.downthemall.net DownloadThemAll] (speed downloader) and [http://www.getfirebug.com FireBug] (web programming). You should also try these speed [http://forum.addonsmirror.net/index.php?showtopic=2875 optimizations].
  
 
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
 +
 +
===Creation===
 +
*[http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/ CSSEdit] is a modestly priced program that can really help out with CSS editing, which is one of the more tricky aspects of current web design.
 +
 +
*[http://www.nvu.com NVU] seems reasonable and is open source.
  
 
==Chat==
 
==Chat==
Line 53: Line 64:
 
===IRC===
 
===IRC===
 
*[http://colloquy.info/ Colloquy] is a popular Client
 
*[http://colloquy.info/ Colloquy] is a popular Client
*[http://www.irssi.org/ irssi] is fro the CLI IRC crowd.
+
*[http://www.irssi.org/ irssi] is for the CLI IRC crowd.
  
 
==Mail==
 
==Mail==
Line 75: Line 86:
  
 
==PDF==
 
==PDF==
*[http://pdfview.sourceforge.net/ PDFView] is vastly superior PDF Reader.
+
*[http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/index.html Skim] lets you take (proprietary) notes on your PDFs.
 +
*[http://pdfview.sourceforge.net/ PDFView] is vastly superior PDF Reader, but no longer developed.
 
*[http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/ Reader 8] is Adobe's offering.
 
*[http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/ Reader 8] is Adobe's offering.
 
*[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/pdf/ Preview].  
 
*[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/pdf/ Preview].  
*[http://www.yepthat.com/ yep] is like iPhoto for your PDFs
+
*[http://www.yepthat.com/ yep] is like iPhoto for your PDFs.
  
 
==File Transfer==
 
==File Transfer==
Line 88: Line 100:
  
 
===Torrents===
 
===Torrents===
 +
*[http://bittyrant.cs.washington.edu/ BitTyrant] an in-house developed mod to Azureus that's more strategic.
 
*[http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Intel_Macs Azureus] if you need lots of functionality and plugs-ins.  
 
*[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://sarwat.net/bittorrent/ Tomato Torrent]
Line 93: Line 106:
 
*[http://www.xtorrentp2p.com/ XTorrent].
 
*[http://www.xtorrentp2p.com/ XTorrent].
  
===General Downloading===
+
===General===
 
*[http://www.yazsoft.com/ Speed Download] is the most popular.
 
*[http://www.yazsoft.com/ Speed Download] is the most popular.
 
*[http://www.igetter.net/ iGetter] is free.
 
*[http://www.igetter.net/ iGetter] is free.
Line 105: Line 118:
 
*[http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/MediaRage.html Media Rage] for doing managing artwork, tags, etc.
 
*[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://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..  
+
*[http://homepage.mac.com/sroy/libra/ Libra] helps manage multiple libraries..
 +
*[http://www.last.fm/group/iScrobbler iScrobbler] uploads what you listen to in iTunes to Last.fm. Annoying to download, it'll be one of the forum topics about a page down.
  
 
===Making===
 
===Making===
Line 117: Line 131:
 
*[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC] plays almost all formats.
 
*[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC] plays almost all formats.
 
*[http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/ MPlayer] is less popular but works as well.
 
*[http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/ MPlayer] is less popular but works as well.
===Making====
+
===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).
 
*[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).
  
Line 126: Line 140:
  
 
==Photos==
 
==Photos==
*[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.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/iPhoto iPhoto] Simple and easy.
*[http://www.lemkesoft.com/en/graphcon.htm GraphicConverter] Good for quick edits and batch processing.
+
*[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/family.html Photoshop] The legendary phototool.
 +
*[http://www.lemkesoft.com/content/188/graphicconverter.html GraphicConverter] Good for quick edits and batch processing.
 
*[http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/ Gimp.app] Not quite Photoshop, but close and free.
 
*[http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/ Gimp.app] Not quite Photoshop, but close and free.
  
Line 141: Line 156:
 
*[http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html SuperDuper] makes a bootable image of your hard drive.
 
*[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.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/chrono_overview.html Chronosync] makes versioned incremental backups of any folder you specify.
 +
*[http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ rsync] is the venerable command line tool. Useful options include -a -v -E and --delete.
  
 
==Utilities==
 
==Utilities==
Line 148: Line 164:
 
*[http://www.charlessoft.com/ Pacifist] Look into pkg, dmg, .tar, etc files and pull individual files out.
 
*[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://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
+
*[http://www.unrarx.com/ UnRarX] only does .rar files, but does them pretty well.
 +
*[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.
 +
*[http://iterm.sourceforge.net/ iTerm] a full featured terminal emulation app written using Cocoa. Supports tabs.
 +
*[http://www.derlien.com/ Disk Inventory X] gives you an extremely useful graphical view of how space is used on your hard drive. Useful for cleaning up after yourself and your apps.
  
 
==Remote Desktop==
 
==Remote Desktop==
*[http://cord.sourceforge.net CoRD] Cocoa OSS client for Intel.
+
*[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://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/MISC/RDC2.0_Public_Beta_download.xml Microsoft RDC Beta] MS 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://rdesktop.darwinports.com/ rdesktop] in DarwinPorts
 
*[http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/rdesktop rdesktop] in Fink
 
*[http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/rdesktop rdesktop] in Fink
Line 167: Line 188:
  
 
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]
 
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]
 +
 +
==AntiVirus==
 +
Hahaha! No seriously, any antivirus solution will slow down your machine with all the scanning. Seeing as there are no known Mac viruses, the only reason to install it is to prevent spread of Microsoft macro viruses. I strongly recommend not installing any antivirus software and just regularly updating your OS software.

Latest revision as of 23:40, 11 April 2008

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.

Text

Coding

  • TextMate is a brilliant general purpose text editor. It's good for coding, taking notes, managing repositories, latexing, etc. It's the hot new standard in OS X.
  • BBEdit the old standard from the OS 9 days. Still very popular.
  • TextWrangler is a free mini-BBEdit.
  • SubEthaEdit is a novel collaborative text editor that some use.
  • Vim in OS X.
  • Carbon Emacs is good for those who want an OS X native Emacs.

IDE

  • Xcode is the Obj-C standard, but is good for all flavors of C (and some Java). If you are building OS X native software, you should use this.
  • Eclipse is the Java standard.

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

Office

  • NeoOffice is a Mac friendly version of the free OpenOffice.
  • Office 2004 is availabe from the department. Go ask Support for install media.
  • Keynote is Apple's presentation software.
  • Pages is Apple's wordprocessing software..

Note Taking

Web

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.

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

Creation

  • CSSEdit is a modestly priced program that can really help out with CSS editing, which is one of the more tricky aspects of current web design.
  • NVU seems reasonable and is open source.

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

IRC

Mail

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 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

  • Vienna is an open-source client that works well.
  • NetNewsWire (both pro and lite) are pretty good too.

PDF

  • Skim lets you take (proprietary) notes on your PDFs.
  • PDFView is vastly superior PDF Reader, but no longer developed.
  • 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

General

Music

Listening

Managing

Making

Video

Watching

Making

Burning Software

  • Finder has built-in burning.
  • Toast is the burning standard.
  • Burn is a free alternative.

Photos

Navigation

  • 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.
  • rsync is the venerable command line tool. Useful options include -a -v -E and --delete.

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.
  • UnRarX only does .rar files, but does them pretty well.
  • Visor a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake.
  • iTerm a full featured terminal emulation app written using Cocoa. Supports tabs.
  • Disk Inventory X gives you an extremely useful graphical view of how space is used on your hard drive. Useful for cleaning up after yourself and your apps.

Remote Desktop

Windows

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

AntiVirus

Hahaha! No seriously, any antivirus solution will slow down your machine with all the scanning. Seeing as there are no known Mac viruses, the only reason to install it is to prevent spread of Microsoft macro viruses. I strongly recommend not installing any antivirus software and just regularly updating your OS software.