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Sep 6, 2005, 02:00 PM
 
Smultron is an open-source text editor written for Mac OS X with many of the features that you might need. It features easy selection of the opened documents, line numbers, support for syntax colouring for many different languages, support for text encodings, code snippets, a toolbar, a status bar, HTML preview, multi-document find and replace with regular expressions, possibility to show invisible characters, authenticated saves, command-line utility, .Mac synchronisation of preferences and many more features.

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Sep 9, 2005, 11:21 PM
 
Text editors:
TextEdit
SubEthaEdit
BBEdit/TextWrangler
TextMate
Smultron
Xcode
JEdit
skEdit
vim/gvim - Aqua or command line
emacs - Aqua or command line

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Oct 15, 2005, 02:43 PM
 
No descriptions yet, here's a category up for discussion:

Motion graphics and VJing

Motion
Quartz Composer
Adobe After Effects
Pure data
Max MSP
Neuromizer
ES-X
Vidvox
Digitalstage
Flowmotion
Modul8
Quartonian
Isadora

Please add suggestions and feel free to come up with a short description if you're familiar with a particular software - I'll try to add some later.

Granted, some of these are not perhaps 'commonly used', but then it's just a case of truncating the list.

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Jan 2, 2006, 11:44 AM
 
i think this thread should be updated now that we're in 06.
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Jan 2, 2006, 11:41 PM
 
hmm...will update the list "soon." Please let me know if any links need to be updated. I will also go through and delete/add as necessary.
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System Utilities:

OnyX Universal Binary (Donationware).

Cocktail 10-use demo, different version for each cat (jaguar, panther, tiger).

Mac Pilot 15-day unlimited trial.

Mac Janitor Freeware, not Universal yet, Panther, and Tiger versions.

Applejack Powerful, Single-user mode based troubleshooting utility.

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Congrats! That is a great post. Although you could add a new Chat program that can substitute MSN Messenger. It is called Mercury (Mercury - News) and it is great. Sometimes it shuts down, its a bug, but it works fine
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Maybe add some DVD/CD burning programs as well as ripping shareware also.
     
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Post some links and a short description and I shall add it.
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I would but I do not know of any that's why I looked there lol.
     
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Jul 21, 2007, 01:59 PM
 
what about animation and 3-D? What's the industry standard? What are the on-the-cheap substitutes?

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Jul 22, 2007, 01:32 AM
 
Originally Posted by trash80 View Post
BBEdit/TextWrangler - is my pick for web development / word processing
If you include that, you should include Smultron, a very nice text editor geared to writing code (as is Textwrangler).
Euhm what about... iTunes, ShapeShifter, CandyBar, Cocktail, Quicksilver, Launchbar, Stuffit Expander and UnRar ?
You should include Mighty Mouse (the software to change the cursor), The Unarchiver, and BetterZip; also do not forget Onyx.
For playing sound files, there are Cog, QMidi, Audacity, and VLC (good for audio as well as video).
     
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Jul 22, 2007, 01:43 AM
 
Originally Posted by alex_wlu_82 View Post
how about some news reader apps?
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Sep 1, 2007, 11:11 AM
 
iText Express - Freeware has extended TextEdit's open source to let you control TextEdit's many buried features.

Features include, but are not limited, to adjustable margins, page layout, multiple columns, headers, footers, editable URLs, tables, styling, font lists, high lighting background colors, footnotes, line numbering, multi-media, tracking, baseline shift, etc. In fact it is capable of quick and dirty DTP and multi-media, whilst still a very capable basic text editor.

Audio Hijack Pro US$32 Indispensible if you want to record web radio or audio from any source whatsoever on your Mac. You can filter, schedule, automate your audio capture.
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Nov 10, 2007, 04:52 AM
 
I don't know if someone already suggested, but:

For renaming a lot files (bulk) and some other nice "file operations":
File Buddy 9

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Along with the usuals (Mail, Safari, etc.), my two most commonly used applications are Bean (a free word processor better than iText or TextEdit, yet not bloated with features few will use) and Scrivener, the best app I've ever seen for writers; it makes organizing info and drafting stories (fiction, nonfiction, plays, screenplays) easier than anything I've ever used.
     
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3D Modelling/Shading/Rendering:

Blender - GNU GPL comprehensively featured 3D software package

Wings 3D - Open source subdivision modeller

Cinema 4D - Commercial mid-range 3D software package

Carrara - Commercial mid-range 3D software package

Zbrush - Pro level digital sculpting tool

Maya - Pro level 3D software package used by the film, TV and video game industry


There are many others of course, but the above should be a decent start.
     
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Apr 1, 2008, 10:44 AM
 
For web design apps, how about Flux from The Escapers

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Apr 3, 2008, 01:29 PM
 
Originally Posted by mindwaves View Post
Post some links and a short description and I shall add it.
Hi Mindwaves, what about updating the list a bit, as it originate from 2004?

I had to look for an app for a cousin, kind of Macpaint look a like, found Paintbrush: The Bitmap Image Editor for Mac OS X
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Good ideas people. I'll update the list accordingly.
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File System:

MacFUSE - OS X compatible binary of FUSE. Provides a fully functional file system in a user space. With appropriate plugins, you have read & write access to sshfs (SFTP), NTFS, ftpfs (FTP), wdfs (WebDAV), cryptofs, encfs, bindfs, unionfs, beaglefs, GmailFS, etc.
NTFS-3G - NTFS plugin for MacFUSE. Read & Write NTFS support.

FTP & SFTP:

MacFusion - Free, and very nice GUI for MacFUSE. Mount FTP & SSH/SFTP sessions right on your desktop like Finder, except fast. Absolute must-have for any Mac user that uses FTP & SFTP on a regular basis.
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