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* Adium is great. * Growl works very well but the whole notification business (emails + builds + IM + song details…) can be counter productive. Use it lightly.
by johncoltrane 14y ago
* Adium is great.
* Growl works very well but the whole notification business (emails + builds + IM + song details…) can be counter productive. Use it lightly.
* iTerm2 is the most modern terminal emulator you'll find on Mac OS X. I use it only because I wanted 256 colors and I'm not on Lion. I've never used its more advanced features.
* I don't know Notepad++ but I would say Sublime Text 2 (http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-beta http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-beta) and TextMate (http://macromates.com/ http://macromates.com/) may do. You could also try a full blown IDE like Aptana (http://aptana.com/ http://aptana.com/) or RubyMine (http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/ http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/). If you already know Vim, MacVim (https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim) is the way to go for both the GUI and the CLI.
* Apple's own Mail.app works well. I've never felt the need to use another app. Microsoft's Outlook is pretty good, too.
* VLC is the obvious choice on Mac OS X too. You might want to install Perian (http://perian.org/ http://perian.org/) to add support for many exotic formats to Quicktime. For audio, Cog (http://cogx.org/ http://cogx.org/) is nice.
* You don't need a CSS editor. Just use your code editor.
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You might be interested in a few other apps:
* ClipMenu (multiple clipboards) http://www.clipmenu.com/ http://www.clipmenu.com/
* Burn (disc burning) http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
* Charles (http debugging) http://www.charlesproxy.com/ http://www.charlesproxy.com/
* DejaMenu (access the menubar from a contextual menu) http://homepage.mac.com/khsu/DejaMenu/DejaMenu.html http://homepage.mac.com/khsu/DejaMenu/DejaMenu.html
* HTTP Client (http debugging) http://ditchnet.org/httpclient/ http://ditchnet.org/httpclient/
* Notational Velocity (the most elegant AND efficient note taking app ever) http://notational.net/ http://notational.net/
* Quicksilver (Quicksilver) http://qsapp.com/ http://qsapp.com/
* ShiftIt (window positioning) https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt
* The unarchiver (opens exotic archive formats) http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
* Yummy FTP (the best FTP client on Mac OS X) http://www.yummysoftware.com/ http://www.yummysoftware.com/
* VirtualBox (virtual machines) https://www.virtualbox.org/ https://www.virtualbox.org/
* SourceTree (Git/Mercurial GUI) http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/