{"id":3837,"date":"2012-01-22T16:42:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T21:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2012-01-22T16:42:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T21:42:45","slug":"my_favorite_os_x_apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/my_favorite_os_x_apps\/","title":{"rendered":"my favorite os x apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently had cause to refresh everything installed onto my Macbook Pro, which got me thinking about the applications I love and use the most. The first five apps I immediately download and install onto any computer I have to work on are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jumpcut.sourceforge.net\/\">Jumpcut<\/a> is a super minimalist clipboard buffering application that I&#8217;ve been using since 2003. It&#8217;s easily my favorite application of all time, as it&#8217;s saved my ass multiple times a day every day since I first installed it. You should get it!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfredapp.com\/\">Alfred<\/a> lets you easily launch applications and search your computer or the web for anything. I used to use Quicksilver for this, but I&#8217;ve found that Alfred does the trick quicker and better.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/\">Chrome<\/a> is Google&#8217;s browser, which I use because it loads pages faster than any other browser, lets you search in the address bar, and perhaps most importantly for my needs, it can handle having a gazillion tabs open in multiple windows at the same time for months at a time without constantly crashing on me like both Safari and Firefox are prone to doing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postbox-inc.com\/express_features\">Postbox Express<\/a> is my favorite mail client <a href=\"#appfootnote-1\">[1]<\/a>, which says a lot since I&#8217;ve been dissatisfied by every single OS X option available to me since I left Windows\u2014and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmail.com\/\">Pegasus Mail<\/a>!\u2014behind over a decade ago. I use privately-hosted IMAP for my primary email (instead of Gmail like most people do) partly because I&#8217;m paranoid and don&#8217;t want my entire life living on Google&#8217;s servers, and partly because I find myself far more productive with a desktop email interface. It just does everything I want it to do.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heat-meteo.sourceforge.net\/\">Meteorologist<\/a> lives in the menu bar and keeps you updated on current and future weather; it balances having a stripped-down view and being fully-featured better than all of the other current menu bar weather applications <a href=\"#appfootnote-2\">[2]<\/a>. I walk a LOT, and like being appropriately dressed for whatever temperature it is outside, so this app is key for me!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jfmoy\/Fraise\/downloads\">Fraise<\/a> is a super simple text editor. Everyone needs one, even if you don&#8217;t work with many text files and so don&#8217;t think you do, and this is the one I like best. <a href=\"#appfootnote-3\">[3]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few other applications I use and love: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/download\">Last.fm scrobbler<\/a>, for tracking the music I&#8217;ve been listening to over the past few years; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/tools\/uploadr\/\">Flickr Uploadr<\/a>, for when I have a huge bunch of photos to upload to Flickr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/\">VLC<\/a>, the best media player for OS X; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transmissionbt.com\/\">Transmission<\/a>, the best torrent client; <a href=\"http:\/\/derailer.org\/paparazzi\/\">Paparazzi<\/a>, for taking screenshots of webpages; <a href=\"http:\/\/foggynoggin.com\/dockdodger\">Dock Dodger<\/a>, for disabling dock icons of apps that are assholes about not letting you choose to keep them in the menu bar; <a href=\"http:\/\/dockdropx.com\/\">Dockdrop<\/a> lets you drop files onto its icon and immediately uploads them via ftp\/webdav\/Flickr; and everyone&#8217;s favorite, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/install\">Dropbox<\/a>, for syncing shared folders to the cloud. What apps do you recommend?<\/p>\n<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p id=\"appfootnote-1\">[1] I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postbox-inc.com\/\">Postbox 3<\/a> is fantastic, and I&#8217;d be more than happy to pay for an upgrade to it in the future if I need to, but Postbox Express currently meets all my needs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"appfootnote-2\">[2] I switched to Meteorologist after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colourful-apps.com\/products\/mac\/weatherdock\">WeatherDock 2<\/a>, which I loved, stopped working, and might eventually switch to WeatherDock 3 when it eventually comes out if it&#8217;s like the previous version.<\/p>\n<p id=\"appfootnote-3\">[3] Fraise is based on version two of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterborgapps.com\/smultron\/\">Smultron<\/a>, before the latter&#8217;s developer first stopped developing it and disappeared, and then reappeared, closed source, and started selling it. I might consider switching to Smultron 4 once I upgrade to Lion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently had cause to refresh everything installed onto my Macbook Pro, which got me thinking about the applications I love and use the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lliiaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}