• Macbook Pro Install List
June 21, 2008 – 7:14 pmAlex King has posted a list of the software he can’t live without on his Macbook Air. In response, here is my must-have list:
- Adium - Despite some issues with XMPP XEP-0045 (MUC) support, this is still my favorite IM client ever.
- Caffeine - Doing lots of presentations means that sometimes you forget to plug in. It’s embarrassing to go to screen saver (or worse) while talking to a slide.
- smcFanControl - Some of us are obsessive about our CPU temperatue.
- ScreenFlow - There’s simply nothing better for screencasting.
- Sofa Control - Turn your Apple Remote into a slide clicker. Or just pause Quicktime from across the room.
- OmniFocus - Despite some interface flaws, an invaluable organizational tool.
- OmniGraffle - Visio doesn’t even come close.
- Saft - This little piece of code makes Safari perfect.
- Adobe CS3 - My life would be empty without Photoshop and Illustrator.
- TextMate - A recent addition. Replaced vi as my primary text editor.
- Garageband - If you buy iLife and delete every other application, you’ve still only spent a third of what this single program is worth.
- Delicious Library - My favorite app to show off to non-Apple people. Plus, my DVD collection is ridiculous.
Honorable mention to Mail.app and Terminal.app.