With the successful installation of OS X Leopard today, I figured I would share my own strange little software world with you all. I'm a big fan of FOSS, so most of these are free.
- The User List
- Adium X - The only Instant Messager you ever need for OS X. And, it integrates with Address Book and Growl
- Firefox/NoScript - Browser of choice
- Safari - For those times when NoScript is just too annoying
- Mail/Address Book - Each is individually nice, and organized the way I like, but the icing to the cake is that they integrate amazingly well
- Quicksilver - So I don't need to go digging around my file system for applications
- Growl - It's just nice to be told what's going on, and when
- The Power User List
- iTerm - Because I'm uncomfortable without a terminal
- Deeper - I like to have control over my environment
- Spaces - I like desktop real estate, and I hate clutter
- Disk Inventory X - Because I want to know where my hard drive space goes
- The Multimedia List
- Handbrake - Who knows anymore whether DVD backups are legal. Screw it. I'm using it.
- iSquint - My iPhone likes videos too!
- VLC - I like to be able to play all of my videos, and Quicktime is unreasonably locked down by Apple
- Perian - This makes Quicktime just a little bit nicer, and so I can watch things using FrontRow (which uses Quicktime)
- Delicious Library ($40) - Because I have a lot of DVDs, and I like to keep track of them. The Girl just wants me to get rid of them so that they don't require cataloging
- The Developer List
- X11 - I like to sit on my couch and program, but most of my development environment is on my Linux desktop. With X11, I can run applications on my desktop, but display them on my laptop
- Eclipse - A nice, free IDE
Update: Wow! I just tried out FrontRow as well. It is WORLDS better than it was in Tiger. It is unbelievably more responsive (it looks like the properly threaded it this time), has a much more manageable layout, and is just generally much more fun to play with.
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