I a list of most Mac OS X applications that I use. Mainly a list so that I can rebuild my machines without thinking about which apps i need.

Color Schemer Studio : Great tool for mixing and machine colors, for those of use that can’t figure out what colors go together. They also have a great free version on their website if you don’t need the features of the desktop client.

Disk Inventory X : Figure out where all the space has gone to on your hard drive (Mac version of WinDirStat)

DockStar : Notes email totals in your dock for Mail.App. It can show up to 5 counts on your Mail.App icon at one time. Very handle if you track multiple email accounts.

Disco : Better CD Burning Solution than Apple’s Finder

Dragthing : Create various types of Docks and Drawers. I’m using it to replace the Apple dock.

Drop Box : Great file syncing tool, 2GB of free space. Syncs one directory, but you can symlink in to sync preferences, and other directories.

Firefox : Best Web Browser out there for ANY operating system. Get it. Now. I also use the following addons with it.

• Firebug
• Linkification
• Twitterfox

Flip4Mac : Windows Media Player plugin for Quicktime. Microsoft no longer develops media player for the Mac, but this is their ‘official’ work around. Seems to work well.

Google Earth : Googles great earth mapping application. I like using the flight simulator feature for flying before i go flying

HandBrake : Convert DVDs to iPod/Apple TV formats

Librarian Pro : Home cataloging software that handles many different media types.

Mac-The-Ripper : DVD Ripping software. Useful to put your movies on your iPod or to stream with the upcoming Apple TV or just Back them up in case the disc is ruined.

Microsoft Office 2008 : The only ‘really good’ software Microsoft has ever developed.

Missing Sync : Syncs my palm with iCal, Address Book, iPhoto, iTunes, etc …

NetNewsWire : RSS News Reader

Overflow : Application Launcher. Hit a hot key (user configurable) and up pops the launcher on your screen. Beats having the Application folder in your dock. I’m not currently using this piece of software, but I am leaving it on this list because I still highly recommend it. I might go back to using it one of these days if my current dragthing setup annoys me.

Parallels : Just started using this software when I got the new mac. Lets you run a virtual install of another OS in a window, much like VMWare. This means I can have windows running at the same time as MacOS X for those couple Admin tools (user/computer management) that I need at work.

Photoshop : I wish the gimp ran better on OSX than it does. Still requires X11, which really puts me off.

StuffIt Expander : Apparently this free app is no longer included in MacOS X, and MacOS X cannot uncompress .sit files natively. So you get to sign up for spam (they email you a download link) to get this … Or you can click just click here to grab it . I can’t believe people still use this format.

TextMate : Best text editor on MacOS X … this is the one that pulled me away from using Emacs on my Mac. I basically live in my text editor (22 textmate windows open right now), i highly recommend this one.

Text Wrangler : Free version of BBEdit. Personally I /HATE/ BBEdit, but for very large text documents (10mb to 100mb plain text files) it is the fastest text editor i have seen. As a result, i keep Text Wrangler around. I only use it for those super huge files though.

The Hit List : Best todo list software i have seen to date. This is what “Things” wants to be.

Transmit : sftp/ftp client. Nice client that handles editing with external editors really well. Needed a replacement for Emacs Tramp when I moved to textmate.

TunnelBlick : VPN software

Versions : Great Subversion software for the Mac

Yojimbo : Information management. Stores Serial Numbers, passwords, notes, web pages, printed PDFs, and book marks. Lots of software out there that does this, but I think Yojimbo has the best interface … its dead simple to use. I have this open several times a day to retrieve information.