Frank Eves’ Essential Mac OS X Apps

In August 2009, I wrote about the apps I intended to install when Mac OS X Snow Leopard was commercially available. My intention was to dramatically slim down my system. Here’s a list of the applications I’m using today.

New additions:

• Acorn
• DEVONthink Pro Office
• ForkLift
• Skitch
• Wave Editor.

Reinstated:

• Aperture.

Still out:

• Adobe Creative Suite
• Chronos Organizer
• Contactizer
• FileMaker
• Marketcircle Daylite
• Microsoft Office 2008
• Now Up-to-Date & Contact

and dozens of lesser known apps.

Replacements:

• Acorn replaced Pixelmator
• Carbon Copy Cloner replaced SuperDuper!
• ForkLift has replaced Fetch, Flow, Interarchy, Transmit and Yummy FTP
• Skitch has replaced Little Snapper and SnapzPro X
• Wave Editor replaced Bias Peak Pro, Amadeus Pro, Fission, and WireTap Studio

Here is the list of Mac OS X Snow Leopard apps I’m currently, happily using:

1Password
http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password/
Acorn
http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
Aperture
http://www.apple.com/aperture/
AppDelete
http://www.reggieashworth.com/
Apple iLife
http://www.apple.com/ilife/
Apple iWork
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
Art Text 2
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/arttext/overview.php
Audio Hijack Pro
http://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/
BBEdit
http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/
Bento
http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/features.html
BetterZip
http://macitbetter.com/
BusyCal
http://www.busymac.com/
Carbon Copy Cloner
http://www.bombich.com/
CrashPlan
http://www5.crashplan.com/consumer/
DEVONthink Pro Office
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/
Default Folder X
http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/
Direct Mail
http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/
Dropbox
https://www.getdropbox.com/
Espionage
http://www.taoeffect.com/espionage/
ForkLift
http://www.binarynights.com/forklift
Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/
Growl
http://growl.info/
HoudahSpot
http://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/
Labels & Addresses
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/labelsaddresses/overview.php
LaunchBar
http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
LicenseKeeper
http://outerlevel.com/licensekeeper/
MacSpeech Dictate
http://www.macspeech.com/pages.php?pID=143
OmniGraffle Professional
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/pro/
OmniOutliner Professional
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/pro/
Opera
http://www.opera.com/
PDFpenPro
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpenPro/index.html
PCalc
http://www.pcalc.com/english/about.html
PopChar
http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharx/
PTHPasteboard PRO
http://pth.com/products/pthpasteboard/
Rapidweaver
http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/
ScreenFlow
http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm
Skitch
http://skitch.com/
Skype
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/
Swift Publisher
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/swiftpublisher/overview.php
TextExpander
http://www.smileonmymac.com/TextExpander/index.html
TextSoap
http://www.unmarked.com/textsoap/
Things
http://www.culturedcode.com/things/
Toast Titanium
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html
Vector Designer
http://www.tweakersoft.com/vectordesigner/
VueScan Professional
http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
Wave Editor
http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/
WebnoteHappy
http://www.happyapps.com/webnotehappy/
xScope
http://iconfactory.com/software/xscope/