madmonkey Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Which of the newsgroup programs is the best? http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?keywor...&button.y=0 I also need a sweet torrent program,... whats the best? im used to using windows and running utorrent i can say that microsoft mac is amazing, and who doesnt love itunes lol... downloading is what i do alot of, both newgroup and torrent so i need some very good apps, like i said im used to utorrent and grabit, if someone can show me something compareable ill be super happy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-645254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
netcastle Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Which of the newsgroup programs is the best? Try Panic's Unison. Not free, but I think it is worth it just as a download manager. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-657754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PercySock Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 I'd like to recommend hellanzb, the best usenet period. It does literally everything and all you need to do is drag and drop a .nzb file , it'll queue the rest of it up, download, check pars, unrar it, and dump it into a finished folder ready to use! It'll even decompres flac and several other formats into .wav. http://www.hellanzb.com/trac/ have a gander, don't be intimated by it's unixness, just setup macports and your ready to go ;o. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-662354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panik Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 In no particular order: DockDodger MPlayer SABnzbd (better than hellanzb) Unison AppZapper DarwiinRemote CoverSutra Coda VisualHub Pacifist Macam Fluid Anxiety Little Snitch I could go on and on... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-666381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprogrammer Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Anyone know a good application to customize the appearance of the dock in leopard? I found one that can even change the "running" icon, but I lost it and forgot what its call... It might be CandyBar. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-679928 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionmuniz Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 excelent list dominoi agree about menumeters this lil soft is so cool I'd like to suggest someones: BBEdit (UB): Edit every .plist .xml and texts or configuration files is very fast usefull with load of options. Get Here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/726 Quicksilver: (UB): Find everthing on everywhere on your disk, you can use your spotlight, but i preffer quicksilver, is much fast and best with more options than this one from apple. Get Here: http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ Wrangler is almost as good as BBEdit, and it's free. It opens ANYTHING! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-688702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnaOnWeb Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 After so many good recommendations I would like to add: Default Folder X - see here: www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX ... makes pull down menues configurable (=shorter) And: SoundSource, freeware: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/ ... you can easily switch between sound sources from the menu bar - very helpful if onboard sound does not work and you have to switch between USB-sources frequentially I have another project running: Scanning all my paper documents with a semi-prof scanner which is fast and does a good job: about 10000 sheets already scanned. Without haassling around with a real database you can do all that indexing and searching with: Leap - find it here: http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/index.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-781270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 This just went on my list: MacGPG - Mac GNU Privacy Guard (Mac GPG for short) - the Mac OS X port of GnuPG. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-789823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I'm a good fan of Indev's software http://www.indev.ca/ They make MailTags and Act-On which are two plugins for Apple's Mail.app MailTags was once a featured download on Apple's download page. iPoco Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-795660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dany Boy Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 ReadIris: Convert Any PDF, image etc to a Text-editable document. TubeTV Download Youtube Videos directly for viewing off-line or to your non-IpodTouch Ipod. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-856183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leoopardoo Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Here is mine essential list: Onyx - system maintenance tool Remote Buddy - advanced remote control of your MAC Toast Titanium - powerful burning tool VMware Fusion - there are still some apps not available under OS X - not a prob. with Fusion :-) Audio Hijack - want to grab some music from your apps ? ;-) Audacity - audio editing tool Transmission - torrent downloader VLC - universal video player App Zapper - app. removal tool Adium - universal instant messaging client Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-876149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambientalien Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 FLAC Universal Binary http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html This new version have a gui interface. Enjoy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-896169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
std04003 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Any good burning program except Toast? It still gives me the well-known error messages... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-897480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kheilaize Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 does anyone has a serial no. for visual hub?..or anyone knows a freeware mod file converter..i need it badly.....tnx in advance!.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-908106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haibane Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 FFmpegX. Works wonders. Video converter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-908511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sup3r1or Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 Anyone knows a good CD/DVD burner like Nero in Windows? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-910523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakine Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 Toast works for me. Anyone knows a good CD/DVD burner like Nero in Windows? Toast Works for me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-910530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred_E_Neumann Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 IshowU for capturing movies from your Desktop... Salling Clicker to use your mobile phone as a remote ctrl (and more) for your (hack)mac via bt/wl Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-911968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sup3r1or Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Guys I wanted to ask for 2 programs that would be the best (doesnt matter free or not) 1st To convert video files to iphone format. 2nd IS a good video converter in general. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-918069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 i dont have a long list to give but every mac user must use this. You will wonder how you ever lived without it. Q U I C K S I L V E R What is QuickSilver?Download Its free and open-source. see the power here Other videos Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-922329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jovu Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Adium - Message Client iTunes - Media Player FireFox - Web Browser Guitar Pro - Tablature Editor Transmission - BitTorrent Client Photoshop CS3 - Image Editing Software Logic Pro 8 - Digital Audio Workstation Stuffit - Unarchiver Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-943360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
benutzer193 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 PathFinder - much better than original Finder Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-960463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluprint101 Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 very useful Thread you should check out MacTubes an app that brings you results of your youTube searches, in thumbnail, just like on the web site itself it has an inbuilt youtube player which can play & download the video in either FLV or MP4 file format its like a one stop shop to enjoying your youtube videos Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-965417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danl Posted November 16, 2008 Share Posted November 16, 2008 Guys I wanted to ask for 2 programs that would be the best (doesnt matter free or not) 1st To convert video files to iphone format. 2nd IS a good video converter in general. iSquint is what i use for iphone video format conversion Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-968286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauTau Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 I'm looking for a program to browse fonts. I tried the OSx native one, but it *installed* the fonts, which resulted in a big blowup (there's 12.000 fonts in a folder, some overwrote the OS fonts ). Already tried fontPilot, but it crashes (on the count I guess). Anything else? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7997-essential-applications-and-utilites/page/3/#findComment-972215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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