[geeks] Apple software: the stuff you "gotta have"

[John Francini]

Hmmm.

For serial terminal stuff, what about screen(1), which comes with OSX?

For (local) disk duplication (i.e., to make fully bootable snapshots  
and updates of disks), either SuperDuper! from Shirt-Pocket software,  
or Carbon Copy Cloner, from Mike Bombich.

Inquisitor, to give 'clairvoyance' to Safari's search box.

For a full-blown text editor with programmer's features, BBEdit.

Airfoil (from Rogue Amoeba Software) to send any audio to an AirPort  
Express.

John


On 9 Oct 2007, at 18:24, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> For all you mac-heads on the list, how about a list of the software
> that you "just gotta have".
>
> I've already collected a dozen or so things for my new Mac, but I'd
> be interested in what you guys really like.  Free preferred of
> course, but not a requirement.
>
> Some programs I used in Linux that I'd like to get equivalents of in
> MacOS X:
>
> 	- Basket: a KDE notebook/organizer program, notebook on steroids
> 	- Amarok: yes, I like it better than iTunes
> 	- *OR*: things you can add to iTunes to make it better
> 	- a good Usenet program
> 	- a good backup program that can use CD and DVD media
> 	- ditto but one that can use remote systems and/or CIFS servers, can
> 	  be the same program if it does media and server backup both
> 	- a program to index my documents (text files, PDFs, word processor
> files,
> 	  etc) and possibly also organize them into neat directory trees
>
> Things I've found that I like, at least for now:
>
> 	- Adium: for chatting with almost all of the chat systems
> 	- Colloquoy: for IRC
> 	- HandBrake: copying DVDs to my media server
> 	- OmniOutliner: as a possible replacement for Basket
> 	- Yep: for organizing/searching through documents on my system and
> 	  in remote locations.  It's nice, but I'm open to suggestions since
> 	  it doesn't quite do everything
> 	- iTerm: has tabs and bookmarks so it works better for some terminal
> 	  needs than terminal.app
> 	- zterm: for all of my serial terminal needs, works great so far
> 	- VMWare Fusion: for running FreeBSD and friends to keep me from  
> having
> 	  to constantly fire up real servers.  Room much cooler now.
>
> -- 
> csh
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