Mac tools I use

by admin on June 2, 2009


After switch­ing to the Mac side over a year ago, I’ve come to rely heav­ily on a few pro­grams, most of which are free (or cheap.)  Here’s a list:

  1. Adium: the best chat client for Mac. If it only did video.
  2. AppFresh: it lets you know which non-Apple apps have an update available.
  3. TwoUp: incred­i­bly useful.It max­i­mizes your screen space by divid­ing a num­ber of apps in two exact halves, either ver­ti­cal or hor­i­zon­tal. I use it every day.
  4. NeoOffice: Word ’08 crashed on me a num­ber of occa­sions. The last time it lost half an hour worth of data, despite my set­ting it so it’d save every minute. I closed Word and never used it again. NeoOfffice has been per­fect so far.
  5. Scrivener: for craft­ing research projects, nov­els, short sto­ries, and pretty much any writ­ing that involves more than half an hour’s work, Scrivener is sim­ply the best soft­ware available.Plenty of writ­ers and review­ers agree. $40 and worth every penny.
  6. Twhirl: sim­ple, light, effec­tive Twitter client.

Any other apps that you deem extra­or­di­nar­ily useful?

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