What software do you use? [OSX]

[SYNERGY]

So after running Windows on a MacBook Air for the past couple of years, I'm upgrading to a 13" Retina.

Heard Windows still looks a bit bad on the Retina display so I'll be giving OSX another go. I got the following software lined up installation:

1Password 5.0.2
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2014 v5.7.1
Adobe Creative Cloud
Airmail 2.0.3
Autodesk SketchBook Pro 2015 7.0.0
Cocktail.v8.1
DxO.OpticsPro.v10.1
Entropy 1.6.0
iStat Mini 1.0
Living Weather HD v3.2.0.
Parallels Desktop
Perfect Photo Suite 9.02
Screens
Things 2.5.1
UnRar
VLC

Am I missing anything important/useful?
Going to give iWorks a go instead of installing Microsoft Office.
Edit: Obviously prefer Retina enabled apps.

Thanks!

 

[XenitXTD]

I dont use VLC... Use MPlayer X as its way better, they used to be in the app store but no more as the app store limitations would have forced them to remove alot of awesome functionality... just google it and you will get their website to download it.

I use Caffiene for those times when i dont want my Mac to Sleep as i have set it to require login everytime.

Mac doesnt write to Windows drives so download Paragon HFS software sot hat you can write to windows drives... its $20 but its worth it compared to all the issues you have everytime there is an update for mac and you have to retweek the free versions (Tuxera NTFS which requires 2 other softwares to work)

Office (I am waiting for 2015 version which will be worth it... current one degrades system performance)

For old school games i use OpenEMU best project on the planet and only for mac...

if you are a developer there is alot of applications (ATOM, espresso, MySQL Workbench etc)

You seem to have yourself sorted with regards to photo's

I have garageband, Logic pro, final cut and the imovie and iphoto softwares for each of their uses

I converted from Windows and I found that if you get used to using mac commands for getting around it speeds things up, Much more useful than windows shortcuts.

Only problem is pace so I have had to use Symbolic link software to allow me to install applications that i dont use often to another drive or trick the system to think its locally store...

I use alot of apps but dont have my MAC with me at the office as its for personal use to list more...

Hope this helps...

 

[_dB_]

...Mac doesnt write to Windows drives so download Paragon HFS software sot hat you can write to windows drives... its $20 but its worth it compared to all the issues you have everytime there is an update for mac and you have to retweek the free versions (Tuxera NTFS which requires 2 other softwares to work).....

Just format all your external drives as ExFAT, that way both Win and Mac can read and write. ExFAT is even supported by WinXP if you install the "patch".

 

[XenitXTD]

ExFAT is too slow, I run all my drive in MAC format but when that random idiot shows up with a windows drive and wants something you need to be able to write to his drive or flash so thats probably not the solution

 

[scudsucker]

For web dev, VirtualHostX is a very nice Apache config GUI

Much nicer than XAMP's one.

 

[Maverick Jester]

ExFAT is too slow, I run all my drive in MAC format but when that random idiot shows up with a windows drive and wants something you need to be able to write to his drive or flash so thats probably not the solution

I find that hard to believe, considering that it was created with performance in mind.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

- 1Password
- Adium (chat)
- Araxis Merge (file comparison)
- Authy
- BetterZip
- Charles Proxy (for HTTP debugging)
- CleanMyMac 2
- Debookee
- EtreCheck
- Evernote
- Firefox, Chrome
- Guildwars 2, Diablo III, Starcraft (about the only decent games on OS X)
- Homebrew
- iStat Menues
- Little Snitch
- MacUpdate (to keep the non-AppStore apps up-to-date)
- Meerkat (for the love of all things sacred, there is gotta be an alternative to this somewhere?)
- Microsoft Office
- Navicat for SQLite
- PDFPen
- Pixelmator
- Screenflow
- Sidekick
- Skype
- Textwrangler
- Transmit
- Tuxera NTFS
- VMWare Fusion

 

[Maverick Jester]

- Meerkat (for the love of all things sacred, there is gotta be an alternative to this somewhere?)

SSH Tunnel Manager?

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

SSH Tunnel Manager?

I think Meerkat is a bit better - I think back in 2011 I tried pretty much all of them and found Meerkat the best one as it integrated into the status-bar, had auto-launch and auto-retry. Back then no other one had that.

 

[GreGorGy]

Primarily, the following:

AccountEdge (was MYOB)
Adobe CS (CC and the cropping tool in Photoshop since CS 6 is rubbish)
BBEdit (Text Wrangler's bigger better brother)
BetterZip
BirdFont
CSSEdit
DVD Remaster
Graphic Convertor
Handbrake
Little Snitch
Office 2011
Pages
Ripit
SyncMate
Toast
Transmit
VLC

-and others that I haven't learnt to use properly yet like Toon Boom Studio. Also, I have a few diagnostics and repair tools.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

I forgot Onyx.... you so need Onyx...

 

[SauRoNZA]

Cord - VNC/Remote Desktop Tool
Cyberduck - FTP / SFTP / Cloud Services
Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - Does what it says.
Evernote
iGetter
Max - Audio Converter
RSS Bot
Sequel Pro - MySQL Client if you are so inclined.
Textwrangler - Text Editor
Tincta - Another Text Editor
Transmission - Torrents
Virtualbox
VLC
XLD - Another Audio Converter

Personally don't feel there's any need for Apps like Onyx and the like. Same goes for Toast.

 

[SYNERGY]

Thanks!

I did purchase a copy of Paragon ages ago.
Will definitely give Onyx a go, who doesn't love tweaking stuff?

Will also check for MPlayer X as well.

 

[bwana]

I only have a few of the apps mentioned in this thread - probably because I really had to trim the fat when I migrated to the new mbp

 

[scudsucker]

Fish Shell. http://fishshell.com

Don't pay too much attention to the sarcastic tagine "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s" - it is a great terminal.

 

[bwana]

Let's see - my most regularly used apps are…

Aperture
Photoshop
Illustrator (both this and PS are old versions so they look like mush)
Filezilla
Office 2011
iWorks
SuperDuper

 

[Lord Flacko]

Thanks!

I did purchase a copy of Paragon ages ago.
Will definitely give Onyx a go, who doesn't love tweaking stuff?

Will also check for MPlayer X as well.

I would not go anywhere near MplayerX if was you.

 

[SYNERGY]

I would not go anywhere near MplayerX if was you.

Why?

 

[Lord Flacko]

It's a Trojan. It will cause havoc with Safari. Tabs will start opening to a MacKeeper webpage. Conduit search engine will be installed and not an easy process of removing said malware.

 

[GreGorGy]

mplayer OS X is okay. MPlayer X is trading on that reputation to do exactly what Lord Flacko says. mplayerosx.sourceforge.net to be safe.