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Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?
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#92macports (http://www.macports.org) for installing unix utilities that are not already included in OS X.
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#93If your file system ever gets corrupted, DiskWarrior.
DiskWarrior will reliably maintain and rebuild your FS. It will work when fsck fails and is better than the other paid alternatives. It looks like (and is) a Mac OS 9 port, but it's the same filesystem so no worries.
If your filesystem is ever, ever fucked, DW will save it if anything can.
It costs $100, so don't buy until when you end up needing it. But at that moment, buy it (unless your data is worth less than $100, I guess).
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 1. Adium Doesn't do IRC. In fact I've been unable to find any osX chat client that does IRC and IM. Anyone found a solution?
Colloquy [ http://colloquy.info/ ] works well for IRC. Doesn't do IM though.
As one of the colloquy devs, I must step in with the more useful nightlies link: http://colloquy.info/downloads/nightlies/ :)
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#95I'm recommending only free software here. 1. Adium for chat. It is just awesome. http://www.adiumx.com/ 2. Quicksilver. if you just want an app launcher spotlight is already good at that. http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list [edit: updated link to point to the recent versions] 3. Caffeine is small program which puts an icon on menu bar on which you can click to prevent your Mac from going to slee…
There's a new effort to make a native OSX interface for mplayer incidentally; seems fairly active so far, and includes apple remote integration, etc:
http://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/
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#96What about... games? :P
Multiwinia - RTS stick man slaughter. Somewhat heavy for a Mac Mini or the latest MacBook Air. Fast and fun. Not much resource management, you can get down to the fighting straight away. And for $19 you can't really go wrong.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coda is expensive ($99) but the convenience of working on remote files via SFTP within the program is unmatched. If your session gets disconnected in the midst of editing a file, nothing to worry about, Coda will automatically log back in for you and update the file you were working on when you save.
VIM does the same for free. $99 saved is $99 earned.
Thanks! I was looking for a free alternative to Coda that did editing over sftp just yesterday!
Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?
#98I'm recommending only free software here. 1. Adium for chat. It is just awesome. http://www.adiumx.com/ 2. Quicksilver. if you just want an app launcher spotlight is already good at that. http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list [edit: updated link to point to the recent versions] 3. Caffeine is small program which puts an icon on menu bar on which you can click to prevent your Mac from going to slee…
Perian - All of the codecs supported by vlc made available for use by quicktime (and any apps that use quicktime, like iMovie).
Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?
#99I'm recommending only free software here. 1. Adium for chat. It is just awesome. http://www.adiumx.com/ 2. Quicksilver. if you just want an app launcher spotlight is already good at that. http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list [edit: updated link to point to the recent versions] 3. Caffeine is small program which puts an icon on menu bar on which you can click to prevent your Mac from going to slee…
Why does anyone recommend Quickisilver? It's suffering from massive bitrot these days. Most users report frequent crashes, hangs, problems waking from sleep, and general slowness compared to Spotlight and LaunchBar? I really wish it wasn't the case, but Quicksilver seems to have had its run and no one is stepping up to the plate to preserve it. Most everything else you list is awesome though (although I think Evernot…
Quicksilver doesn't crash for me but it does leak memory (currently using 103.30 MB).
Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does anyone recommend Quickisilver? It's suffering from massive bitrot these days. Most users report frequent crashes, hangs, problems waking from sleep, and general slowness compared to Spotlight and LaunchBar? I really wish it wasn't the case, but Quicksilver seems to have had its run and no one is stepping up to the plate to preserve it. Most everything else you list is awesome though (although I think Evernot…
QuickSilver is quicker than Spotlight. I don't want to have to wait a few seconds for Spotlight to find stuff... QuickSilver is usually instantaneous or very near it. Also, it doesn't depend on the spotlight indexing, so this means I can disable the spotlight indexing jobs which have a nasty habit of using up 100% of my CPU at random times while I'm doing something. Also, I haven't had any problems with crashes or an…
Spotlight is, generally, only slow the first time you search.
Usually it's as fast as LaunchBar except for the very first time it is used. It has a reputation of being slow from 10.4 that is no longer justified.