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on nov 16th, 2005

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and for no reason, here is my latest list of applications and utilities i'm using (regularly) in mac os:

  • adium for jabber
  • application enhancer for:
    • pulltab to disable command+tab binding, for witch
  • bitplayer to play multiple videos in a playlist fashion, because i'm used to "mplayer *"
  • chicken of the vnc for vnc
  • cyberduck for a gui ftp client when downloading lots of files (i usually just use the command-line one)
  • firefox 1.5 for web browsing with extensions:
  • growl tied to:
    • adium
    • cyberduck
    • firefox downloads (see firefox extension list above)
    • growltunes (included with growl)
    • macbiff for new mail notification (through imap+ssl)
  • ical for running my life, synched to my razr via isync
  • itunes because i can't concentrate in silence
  • quicksilver for application launching and other keyboard-controlled goodness
  • sshkeychain as my ssh-agent, stores keys in keychain which locks when the screen saver comes on; kinda buggy
  • startupsound to disable the stupid startup chime on power-on
  • stickies for putting todo lists on my desktop so i see them all the time
  • tomato torrent for downloading bittorrents
  • virtue (fork) for virtual desktops, because i cannot function without them
  • witch, bound to command+tab, for a better application switcher (includes all windows of all apps)
  • x11.app hosting a bunch of xterms (terminal/iterm/uterm/weallterm are all way too slow) with:
    • gimp because i've used it for years
    • mutt-ng for e-mail via imap over ssl (with header caching) because nothing else allows me to efficiently process >700 e-mails a day
    • pkgsrc for building/managing third-party command-line packages (ok, not really an app, but whatever)
    • rdesktop for terminal service connections, because microsoft's mac client is ridiculously slow and only allows one connection at a time
    • screen for fast switching between a few full-terminal applications
    • vim because gui editors suck

apps i'm no longer using:

  • check off was nice, but i never remembered to look at it; replaced by stickies
  • desktop manager - now using virtue since it has more features and is still under development
  • global hotkey flaked out and would lose its key bindings
  • synergy - growltunes does the same thing for free (although i already paid for synergy)

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