[JKT]

I haven't actually used it at all, but from what others have been saying about it, perhaps Shiira should be added to the Browser list?

Also, a couple of other suggestions as essential utilities:

MacJanitor (esp for i/PowerBook owners) for manually running the system crontab that clears the system.log file etc.

Cronnix for much the same reason (its a GUI app for altering crontabs, including the system crontab which enables you to re-schedule the times for the daily/weekly/monthly tasks to more sensible times).

[Judge_Fire]

*bump*ing this up to see whether Mindwaves feels my and others submissions worthy

J

[ryaxnb]

Word processing and spreadsheet:
1. Mariner Write & Calc: Just the right amount of features. To it's credit: liked by ATPM.
FTP:
2. Captain FTP: Nice Cocoa FTP client. To it's credit: acclaimed by Moore.
A new text-editing section mentioning BBEdit, BBEdit Lite, TextWrangler, Tex-Edit Plus, TextEdit, etc.
A new HTML/CSS/JavaScript section.

[Randman]

F10 Great launch management utility.

Safari Enhancer Deactivates the cache and more.

Pithhelmet More control over blocking ads.

Transparent Dock

TinkerTool More options for the dock.

DejaMenu Brings the menu to you.

Pacificst Manages packages.

CookieMuncher Manage your cookies.

DeLocalizer Manage language packs.

ReFresh iCal Date

Carbon Copy Cloner

WinSwitch Changes Fast User Switching to icon or short names.

[Devin Lane]

It might be kind of helpful to have a translation between Windows apps and their corresponding ones for Mac. That way, people who are switching from Mac to PC can figure out what apps they need to do the same things they did on PC.

[Fonzie]

Why would anyone need an extra app to refresh the date in the iCal Dock graphics ? It does it by itself. I started iCal at around 10pm and when midnight came closer and the hour turned to midnight and then some- I noticed that it changed by itself. OMG WOW.

Atleast it does this with the latest versions of iCal and Panther. Can't tell if it does it on Jaquar aswell.

[Moonray]

No one is missing

Do some basic sound editing:

1) ...

? I'm out of ideas for the commonly used apps right now, but maybe someone can help out.

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[Randman]

Originally posted by Fonzie:
Why would anyone need an extra app to refresh the date in the iCal Dock graphics ? It does it by itself.

If open, it does. I don't always use iCal. Some days I don't use it, but when I had it in my dock (I use F10 now), I liked having the current date without having to open and close iCal.

[CatOne]

Backup needs to include:

ChronoSync (simple, VERY effective file/folder synchronization utility, with background scheduling support)

You Synchronize (same functionality, slower than ChronoSync, but can be more accurate due to use of checksums instead of file dates)

Impression -- Backs up to disk images, CDs, DVDs, remote folders, etc.

[LaGow]

A page and a half of suggestions and we haven't covered the completely obvious (other than Word):

Desktop Publishing
Adobe Photoshop - the premier image-editing app on the Mac (or probably any other platform)
Adobe Illustrator - the original vector-based illustration tool
Macromedia FreeHand - another great vector-based illustration tool
QuarkXpress - the more-or-less standard for page layout, from the company that hates you
Adobe InDesign - an excellent page layout tool, but not as ubiquitous. From the company that, deep within its soul, wishes you were on Windows (but will never admit it).

Web Publishing
Macromedia DreamWeaver - WYSIWYG web authoring environment
Adobe GoLive - DreamWeaver's main competitor
CSSEdit - an excellent standalone shareware CSS editor
Tag - probably not commonly used--since it's so new--but promising shareware HTML editor

Pro-Level Font Management
FontAgent Pro
MasterJuggler
Suitcase and/or FontReserve

[LaGow]

More of the obvious:

Video Editing
Final Cut Pro - taking Hollywood by storm, they say. Steep learning curve if you're new to this kind of thing.
Final Cut Express - for mere mortals, at least in terms of price, but still a bitch to learn. Fortunately there are books for this. And a diety who goes by the unlikely name of Tom Wolsky who inhabits the Apple Final Cut Express user forums.

Sound Editing
Logic Pro
Logic Express

This post brought to you courtesy of Apple friggin' Computer, Inc., who seem to have cornered the market on this sort of thing.

[Shades of Gray]

Desktop Publishing

RagTime Available for both OS X and OS 9, as well as cross-platform for Windows. This German developed program is very capable, including high end word processing, page layout, spreadsheet, drawing, etc.

The Solo version can be used for free for personal use. I am laying out a personal writing project of 300 pages (text and photos). I am very satisfied with it.

[LaGow]

Oh, good grief, I just checked the main list page and Mindwaves kept all my little smart remarks. What I get for trying to be cute.

[BlackGriffen]

For making organizational graphs:
OmniGraffle
GraphViz
XFig

For making vector drawings/diagrams:
OmniGraffle
XFig

BG

[threestain]

For Open-Source WYSIWYG Html editors:

Nvu

[Mastrap]

I know this has been mentioned already, but Quicksilver is really coming of age. I'm pretty sure that once Tiger is out it'll be of no use whatsoever but until then it is fantastic.

http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/

[Judge_Fire]

I suggested a title 'Manage files differently' here on the first page of this thread, including Quicksilver (links and all).

Any new additions to that list?

J

[the_glassman]

Originally posted by trash80:
BBEdit/TextWrangler - is my pick for web development / word processing

Goliath is a great WebDAV file transfer program, i use it to transfer files to my iDisk, it works so much faster than mounting the thing with Finder

Another vote here for Goliath, it's the only WebDAV program that I'm aware of for X and works great for uploading files.
Also for simple HTML editing nothing beats Taco HTML.

[monkeybrain]

I'd like to add Nice Player to the video section. It plays all Quicktime but in a stylish and minimal window with no border, title bar etc and has native full screen support.

[darrick]

i'm humbly suggesting wordperfect, which runs in classic:

a short list of wordperfect resources

a longer list of wordperfect resources