To all Mac users: what applications are in your /Applications folder?
I don't do that too often, but @ulfklose posted a very interesting question:
I'll try to answer it by posting my own setup. Well, not exactly answering the question, as I tend to put paid applications into ~/Applications. I do this to have them right back at its place after restoring a backup and to remind myself to use them (they took away money, you know? lol).
Just adapting @ulfklose's posting as a template here, as my setup is quite even to his:
Operating System: Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard
Surfing: Apple Safari just until yesterday, today I'm trying Firefox again
Mail: Apple Mail
Word processing: Apple Pages, Google Docs via Fluid
Presentation: Apple Keynote
Spreadsheets: Apple Numbers
Adress Book: Apple Adress Book
Calendar: Apple iCal and Google Reader (for hosting some of them)
Photo library: Apple iPhoto 08
Music playback, management and purchasing: Apple iTunes
Coding: Espresso (lucky MacHeist bundle hit)
Quickstarter: Google Quicksearch Box
FTP/SCP: Cyberduck
Password management: 1Password
File sharing: Dropbox
Screenshots: cmd+Shift+4 (keep trying to accustom myself to Skitch though)
Virtualization: VMware Fusion 2.0
Messaging: iChat w/ Chax and Skype (abandoned Adium to make use of the special iChat features more often)
Notes management: Evernote
Social networking: Tweetie (free edition)
To Do Management: Things
Image editing: Pixelmator
Backup: Apple Time Machine
Media streaming (to Xbox): Playback
Media management: nothing (having Delicious Library 2, not using it)
Video codecs: Perian (self-compiled from recent SVN trunk, thanks to @ulfklose)
Notifications: Growl
PrefPanes: Growl and Playback as mentioned above (Blue Harvest sounds interesting though...)
Surfing: Apple Safari just until yesterday, today I'm trying Firefox again
Mail: Apple Mail
Word processing: Apple Pages, Google Docs via Fluid
Presentation: Apple Keynote
Spreadsheets: Apple Numbers
Adress Book: Apple Adress Book
Calendar: Apple iCal and Google Reader (for hosting some of them)
Photo library: Apple iPhoto 08
Music playback, management and purchasing: Apple iTunes
Coding: Espresso (lucky MacHeist bundle hit)
Quickstarter: Google Quicksearch Box
FTP/SCP: Cyberduck
Password management: 1Password
File sharing: Dropbox
Screenshots: cmd+Shift+4 (keep trying to accustom myself to Skitch though)
Virtualization: VMware Fusion 2.0
Messaging: iChat w/ Chax and Skype (abandoned Adium to make use of the special iChat features more often)
Notes management: Evernote
Social networking: Tweetie (free edition)
To Do Management: Things
Image editing: Pixelmator
Backup: Apple Time Machine
Media streaming (to Xbox): Playback
Media management: nothing (having Delicious Library 2, not using it)
Video codecs: Perian (self-compiled from recent SVN trunk, thanks to @ulfklose)
Notifications: Growl
PrefPanes: Growl and Playback as mentioned above (Blue Harvest sounds interesting though...)
Video conversion: A self-written app called "Matroska 2 MP4", written in Obj-C/Cocoa (yay)
RSS: NetNewsWire, as it is Google Reader-syncable now
YouTube downloads: Get Tube (need a better alternative)
Vector graphics: Inkscape (need a better alternative here too... or at least a native port without the need for X11)
Banking: Pecunia
"Screenshot notes": LittleSnapper
Batch jobs of every kind: Automator
Archiving: Mac OS X' builtin zip function
Unarchiving: RAReXtract (very good one)
BitTorrent: Transmission
I have two Macs. An iMac 24” (Early 2008) and a MacBook 13” (unibody, late 2008)
Citing @ulfklose again: Please write a post yourself or leave your equipment in the comments.
Citing @ulfklose again: Please write a post yourself or leave your equipment in the comments.
