Wow. You could get lost in all of this.

Great list - here’s mine:

http://www.bryanstrawser.com/archives/006953.php

Bryan

I made a small list of apps I’ve used in an educational setting for teachers who are using G4 iBooks and OS X Panther.

http://www.johnhendron.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2004/06/15#softwareapps

A month ago, when I got my PowerBook, I asked what tools I should download/buy. The results are at:

http://jtauber.com/blog/2004/08/13/mynewpowerbook

Here’s a good one: http://www.jluster.org/indispensable

Never one to shy away from an opportunity at techno-exhibitionism, I captured what I run on a daily basis here: http://www.astrogoth.com/index.php/MacOSXSoftwareInventory

And here’s mine, created a couple of weeks ago:

http://weblog.mrbill.net/archives/2004/09/02/my-favorite-os-x-apps/

I have posted the list of software that I run at: http://www.paulstimesink.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=159&blogId=2

Back in April I responded to Mark Pilgrim’s Digital Colophon post with:

http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/link/03972 and http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/link/03974

I’ll amend that list from April with

http://www.instiki.org/show/HomePage

and second your recommendation of Markdown.

Here’s my list:

http://www.inluminent.com/weblog/archives/2004/07/19/mybestofmacosxsoftware/

Fun list… thanks.

Trackback should be working now. Sorry about that, gang. Re-ping away, please.

Oh boy, that’s a lot of inventories. Here’s adding mine to the pyre:

http://jace.seacrow.com/tech/macosx

Well, I’ve got a mixed set of hints and useful apps over at http://the.taoofmac.com/space/HOWTO/Switch%20To%20The%20Mac (which is mostly UNIX-switcher oriented), and an application directory at http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Applications

But I could never really grok the notion of “essential” apps. I mean, what else do you need besides Terminal and Quicksilver? :)

Here’s mine. I’ve also got some articles I’ve written on configuring various networking and development things. My point of view is mainly switching from linux. I’ve done some writing on my experience with switching.

I just started my own – mostly opensource and shareware apps which I absolutely can’t live without.

To paraphrase Anil, this place is turning into a sausage factory.

Where’s the Mac-loving women?

Here is an article that talks about setting up one’s computer to increase productivity. While it is a bit old, this article has some interesting ideas.

Here’s my shot. It’s mainly from the point of view of an OS X / Linux web developer, and does tend to concentrate (whenever possible) on Open Source applications.

Essential Applications

Being as we are discussing OS X apps, I am curious if anyone has any experience with MenuCalendarClock and how it performs/works over CalendarClock (freeware) did and if it is worth the $15.

Thanks

I’d totally forgotten that I posted this - a while ago. But I’ve listed links to other osx app lists, as well as my own list.
here: http://phbz.org/bloggersblock/archives/000052.html

One comment about the Mac OS in general. I’d bet half of these don’t work on my version of Mac OSX (I’m stuck back on 10.2.3, because I’m on a G3 and need to upgrade at least the video card to go any higher.) I have never seen an operating system with so little backward compatibility.

Here’s mine:

http://matonmacs.blogspot.com/2004/09/it-begins.html

A short list of some (mostly) free apps can be found here:

http://www.educationaltechnology.ca/dan/archives/2004/05/04/mac-os-x-must-have-utilities/

I provide a variety of Mac OS X troubleshooting FAQs available here:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/faqs.html

Here are joi ito’s:

http://joiwiki.ito.com/joiwiki/index.cgi?joisfavorite_applications&login=user11827

Here is my favorite free applications for Mac Os X : http://erinch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=1

These folks over at MacZealots.com have a mess of good things put together, and they add stuff all the time.

And if you want to find out how to do something, they’ll try to figure it out and show you how it’s done.

I use Hog Bay Notebook to record Someday/Maybes and reference material under the following categories: Work, Career Development, Household/Personal, Health/Fitness, Leisure/Social, Potential Projects, and Consider Buying. Any subcategory more than 5 items gets its own folder.

Next Action items get dragged to these folders, as appropriate: Tickler (organized by Weekday, Month, 2006), Contexts( organized by place or situation), Agendas (by person), and Projects. Finished actions are checked off, and, after a while, deleted.

Sciral Consistency is great for managing those noisome chores you have to get to every so often, and helps you fine-tune a household routine. I also use SC to keep track of my Weekly Review “collection buckets” and how often I refer to them. These can range from mere to-dos to stuff on my Amazon wishlist and del.icio.us bookmarks. I can tell where my WR left off if it was half-assed.

Information overload!!! Anyone know of solution to ‘archiving your resources’. For instance, I consider this site a resource with a considerable amount of useful information that I like to reference when I need to. However, what if this site goes down some day? Then what? Any ideas? You can email me directly.

I’ve been keeping a list of apps & tips for people coming from UNIX (mostly):

http://www.faisal.com/docs/osxforgeeks.html