![]() ![]() Tartini - a beautifully useable tool "designed as a practical analysis tool for singers and instrumentalists", giving highly detailed pitch contours.Audio Hijack Pro - allows you to grab the audio from any application and record it to disk.SuperCollider - programming language and environment for sound.If you're into music/audio they may be essential for you too: (Try ls -la bbedit, for example.) bbdiff provides a command-line interface to Find Differences. Coriolis CDMaker - Comes free with iDefrag, and lets you create bootable CDs for rescuing your computer when (in two or three years' time) something goes completely wrong. The bbedit command-line tool lets you open FTP and SFTP URLs from the command line, and behaves consistently with other Unix tools by allowing you to create files on the fly, as well as by accepting input piped from other Unix commands.You can get iTunes to flash up what tracks it's playing, among many many other applications. Growl - allows applications to send you unobtrusive notifications.MenuCalendarClock for iCal - really valuable little tool which gives instant access to your calendar.However, its not a big cost for the license, and for some users the extra features make it definitely worth. Jreepad - store all the notes you ever think of in a sprawling tree-like structure Unlike some of the other text editors featured here, though, Sublime Text isnt free.However, this text editor falls under the freemium category, meaning users can use Sublime for free but will have to buy a license to enjoy full features. It provides cross-platform support and is available in Windows, Mac, and Linux-based systems. Google Earth - sometimes you just need to look at the planet Sublime is an HTML editor that resembles Notepad++.WriteRoom - minimalist writing environment for people who need to concentrate.Chicken of the VNC - for accessing remote desktops.Then there's good software but not essential: Thunderbird does newsfeeds as well as email, and gives you lots and lots of control. Thunderbird - I don't like Apple's Mail software.Fetch - the nicest FTP software I ever did see.Firefox - I like Safari a lot, but it's often helpful to have Firefox too.JDiskReport - excellent graphical way to see what's on your hard disk, what's taking up all the space, etc.iDefrag - defragments your hard disk, improving your computer's performance.Excellent for programming but also just for opening text files etc. BBEdit - a high-performance HTML and text editor for the Macintosh.X11 (I think it also comes on the same disc as the developer tools.) X11 is a way for open-source software to create graphical interfaces (windows, menus, etc).Apple's Developer Tools (comes on a separate CD along with your OSX installer discs).But skip over this bit if you're not into Unix software: The first lot allow you to install a whole range of excellent Unix software, so I install them before (almost) anything else. Most of these items are free so the whole lot costs very little. So, largely for my own reference but for anyone else, here's my list of the really really useful software to install on a Mac. I'm thinking about practicalities of setting myself up in my new PhD position, and one of the things to think about (since I'll be doing a lot of computer work) is how to set up the Mac I'll be using. ![]()
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