Ten OS X indie applications I love
It’s time for a list of independent software that I can’t do without on my Mac. It will mean more to some than others, so forgive the slightly technical slant to some of the choices.
- TextMate – Ultimate text editor
- I’m not sure what else to say about this one, it does EVERYTHING that you could want or imagine from a text editor. I use it for blogging, building websites, and for €39 it was a welcome relief from Dreamweaver®.
- Quicksilver
- Launches applications by typing part of their name. Helps keep my dock uncluttered and saves me hunting for applications.
- Newsfire
- RSS reader which is a fantastic bit of UI design and a complete pleasure to use.
- Handbrake/Mediafork
- DVD Ripping and video encoding made incredibly simple. I’m not sure how this application is legal, but I love it.
- Adium
- The mother of all [IM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging) clients. It talks to just about any network you can think of and has a really nice customisable user interface.
- Omnigraffle/Omnioutliner
- Help you think, plan and sort ideas.
- Delicious Library
- A media library, for books, DVDs and CDs that includes barcode scanning, this one still really amazes me. Definitely something for the inner librarian in everyone.
- svnX
- Subversion GUI for common commands. It’s not perfect and doesn’t have an extensive set of commands, but if you’re learning to use Subversion, it helps speed up simple operations and slowly eases you into the command-line.
- Camino
- Because I really like [Firefox](http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/), but it’s bloated and ugly.
- Cyberduck
- I could wish for more from an FTP tool, but I’d expect to pay for something that does less.
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