Adium - Great multi-protocol IM application. Boxee - This is the best media center application in my testing. Evernote - Captures snippets of text, images, web page fragments, great universal search, text recognition from images, syncs with mobile devices. Uses FFMPEG so it handles pretty much the same stuff as perian, but has more features than the default quicktime player.ħ.
Movist - This is great movie player for when quicktime does not cut it. Perian - adds support to quicktime for all those unusual codecs.Ħ. Picasa - Prefer it over iPhoto by a large margin.ĥ. Quicksilver used to be the gold standard, but has been buggy when trying it lately under SL.Ĥ. My preference is QSB since it is free, Launchbar is quite nice as well, but is a bit pricey. Google Quick Search Box, Launchbar, or Quicksilver - Quick launch apps. Growl - This gives nice system notifications supported by lots of software, configurable.
It supports scripts that can update dock badges and generate growl messages. Fluid - This one allows creating SSBs (Single Site Browsers) for your common webapps.
I thought I would share some of my favorite software to get you productive in your new desktop. Perhaps some people building osx86 machines from scratch are new to OS X in general. If you are curious about Flock, it is definitely worth a shot, however odds are it will not become your main browser unless your primary use for the web is social networking and/or checking out and uploading media.Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide Also, based on observation alone (no testing was done), Flock seems to be a little slower than safari. I find it distracting and a little bit of a real estate hog. The menu bar is a little too cluttered for general web surfing (though you can hide the "flock toolbar" by ctrl+clicking on the tool bar and unchecking flock toolbar). Although Flock is great for social networking, it will not replace safari or firefox as my main browser. Flock has said that they are planning on developing vox support, though no word on when that will show up. The downside for me is that Flock does not support vox, the blog website that I use for my personal blog. So far, everything that Flock has promised has worked well. There are many integrated features that allow you to create blog posts without visiting the site (which I am doing right now), update twitter, upload photos to flickr or photobucket, and many more. Flock is by far and away a the best browser if you are concerned with social networking and sharing media. I have recently installed and been using Flock. There are quite a few web browsers for the Mac. While there are other paid applications that offer greater functionality than AppTrapp, AppTrap is an excellent free application uninstaller. I have not come across any issues while having used this application over the past few months. Whenever I test an application and decide I don't care for it enough to keep it around, AppTrap deletes the associated files and keeps my computer that much neater. I am constantly listening to podcasts and reading other blog sites, and I usually like to try all the free apps they mention. Once AppTrap is installed, whenever you drag an application to the trash a prompt will ask if you want to delete files associated with that application. AppTrap is a program developed to delete the unwanted files associated with applications you want to delete. There is a free "application" (it actually becomes a new pane in the system preferences menu) that allows you to delete those unwanted files. By just dragging the application to the trash, you could be leaving other unwanted files on your computer.īut, worry no longer. These files are usually preferences or other such settings. However there are often other files associated with the unwanted application. The most common way to delete unwanted applications (which, if you like testing out new apps, you do frequently) is to drag them to the trash.
Unlike windows, Mac OSX does not have a built-in 'uninstaller' program. One of the problems many Mac users face is uninstalling applications.