Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

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Post by joechung » Sun, May 17, 2009, 9:51 PM UTC

Stuffit Expander.

Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

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Post by alnayyir » Sun, May 17, 2009, 9:57 PM UTC

zimbabwe wrote: post #49

njharman wrote: post #37

Earlier 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?

Mibbit. If you need a desktop solution, then use Fluid to turn it into an SSB.

No offense, but mibbit is for idiots.

Use irssi or xchat.

Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

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Post by benofsky » Sun, May 17, 2009, 9:58 PM UTC

karl11 wrote: post #2

textmate

Nothing compares to textmate, fantastic price, unbelievably awesome editor.

Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

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Post by benofsky » Sun, May 17, 2009, 9:58 PM UTC

elai wrote: post #36

crad wrote: post #19

boundlessdreamz covered a lot, here's a few more (mostly commercial but still awesome): 1. Things - Awesome task management - http://www.culturedcode.com/ 2. Mailplane - If you use GMail this is a must. - http://mailplaneapp.com/ 3. AppZapper - Remove everything about an app - http://www.appzapper.com/ 4. LittleSnitch - Filters and prompts on outbound ip connections - http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.h…

Cornerstone is a good alternative SVN client. Cyberduck is a pretty good general purpose SFTP/FTP/S3/etc client. I like billings better than on the job personally.

I find cornerstone a lot better than versions. Although moved to Git now and feel like an idiot for buying a subversion client!! :P

Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

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Post by ivankirigin » Sun, May 17, 2009, 10:09 PM UTC

I actively use firefox (and camino + safari to have multiple sessions for the same site), iWork, tweetdeck, birdshot, itunes, last.fm, VLC, uTorrent, Quicktime pro, snaps x pro, skype, textmate, parallels (though switching to VMware), RescueTime, DropBox, and QuickBooks.

About 40% are paid apps.

Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

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Post by ropiku » Sun, May 17, 2009, 10:14 PM UTC

jhickner wrote: post #22

1.) SteerMouse - tweak the mouse acceleration curve. If you're coming from a PC and you feel like your mouse doesn't move right, this will help. 2.) SizeUp - size and and position windows with hotkeys. For example, quickly set two windows to use exactly one-half of the screen each. 3.) Expandrive - mount S3 buckets, ftp sites, sftp sites as network drives. (Works great with textmate) 4.) Miro - excellent video player…

Another +1 for SizeUp, since I bought a display for my MacBook I love it. I also like if for "name your price".

Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

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Post by scottymac » Sun, May 17, 2009, 10:23 PM UTC

Some stuff I use that I didn't see mentioned:

MenuMeters: http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

Hyperspaces: http://hyperspacesapp.com/

Yojimbo: http://barebones.com/products/yojimbo/

Leap: http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/

Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

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Post by zimbabwe » Sun, May 17, 2009, 10:26 PM UTC

alnayyir wrote: post #102

zimbabwe wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mibbit. If you need a desktop solution, then use Fluid to turn it into an SSB.

No offense, but mibbit is for idiots. Use irssi or xchat.

Give me a fucking break. It's a method of connecting to IRC. To the best of my knowledge, the various programs don't bestow special powers on people. They let you type lines of text and post them to a live room. Occasionally they let you format messages.

How is Mibbit for idiots? It lets me give URLs to people who want to join chat rooms, so if I want to invite somebody to a channel I don't have to say "Download this, then fill out this and this and this in the boxes," I can just link them and they click it and they're in. I can style it to my heart's desire. It's customizable as anything. It supports tabs for multiple rooms at once.

Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

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Post by ruby_roo » Sun, May 17, 2009, 10:56 PM UTC

alnayyir wrote: post #102

zimbabwe wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mibbit. If you need a desktop solution, then use Fluid to turn it into an SSB.

No offense, but mibbit is for idiots. Use irssi or xchat.

I use mibbit all the time when I'm behind a firewall that blocks IRC traffic. I don't consider myself an idiot. It's probably also a great option for thin clients.

I do use Colloquy or irssi when at home, though.

Re: Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

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Post by jgranby » Sun, May 17, 2009, 11:03 PM UTC

makecheck wrote: post #70

Some of the things I use: - DragThing; you will never miss Apple's Dock, this is an absolutely essential desktop enhancement, e.g. to create multiple tabbed docks anywhere you want, with themes. - OmniWeb (now free); I've tried many web browsers, and I like this best. Safari engine. - MacTelnet (tabbed terminal). It now works for local programs and not just servers, so I use it instead of Terminal. - SnapzPro X (or a…

I second OmniWeb. It's the best browser there is. The tab implementation is second to none, in particular the ability to discontiguously select multiple tabs. Site-specific preferences are also incredibly useful.