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State Of The Art Applications For Your New Mac

apple new mac OSI’ve needed to harness my new mac with some apps/tools I’m using daily. There are lots of good options today in the apple mac store. However, you might want to find some cool apps that are not there. Here is the list I’ve made:

Basic Apps

  • Quicksilver – Quicksilver is an excellent multi-application launcher. Quicksilver is a handy app and folder launcher has quickly.
  • Sparrow – mail app for the ones that are still not using gmail web interface…
  • Chrome (go with canary) / Firefox
  • VLC – VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player.
  • Dropbox – a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.
  • Google earth – lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.
  • Picasa – helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It’s free, and easy to use.
  • EverNote – works with nearly every computer, phone and mobile device out there.
  • Adium – Open source multi-protocol instant messaging client for Mac OS X, supports MSN, Jabber, Yahoo! and other networks.
  • Seashore – is an open source image editor for Mac OS X’s Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes.
  • Pixelmator – Excellent image editor that give you more then Seashore (and less then photoshop).

Developer Tools

  • Sublime Text 2 – my favorite editor these days.
  • Textmate / text wrangler – good editors.
  • Chicken of the VNC – A Mac VNC client that allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen.
  • Cyber Duck – is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Rackspace Cloud Files, Google Docs, Windows Azure & Amazon S3 browser for Mac and Windows.
  • IntelliJ IDEA – Powerful IDE for Java and if you are a web developer try Web Storm
  • Eclipse – Good IDE for Java/GWT/Google App and many more.
  • Netbean – Fully-featured Java IDE written completely in Java, with many modules available, such as: debugger, form editor, object browser, CVS, emacs integration etc’. It’s a good IDE (as eclipse) but I even more like their php/JS support.
  • MAMP – Install Apache, PHP and MySQL with few clicks under Mac OS X.
  • Zend Server/Framework – in case you live in PHP world.
  • Sequel pro – Sequel Pro is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.

Have I forgot something? Any other ‘killer app’ that should be part of each mac?

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Apple’s new Tablet or the big iPhone

apple's new tablet

Let’s be honest, the iPhone is an amazing device but you won’t say that its killer feature is the phone. I guess that apple, very inelegantly, understood that they now have everything in place to lunch the tablet and to make it a hit. Unlike microsoft that wanted to do it 6-7 years ago without any support to their vision, Apple now ‘have everything’ in terms of:

  • Business model with framework to support it. The iTune and then App Store give apple huge advantage (or you can look at that as very high entry barrier to all the other players in the game like: Microsoft, Dell, HP) when it comes to how people will consume software (who said games? movies? songs?) on such a tool. It’s all in motion and in place. Everyone today (I mean, all the ones that have iPod), know that you can lunch the iTune and there you can get all your: movies, Tv shows, Songs and now even free applications (again who said games? Farm Vil…). It’s easy and it’s working plus, it looks great.
  • The iPhone and it’s ‘know how’ will give apple very important knowladge on how to build this tablet to be useful. Keyboard usage… and other patents will play into their hands so this device won’t be like their 90′ Newton (Yes – I had one :).

I’m not an expert in hardware companies, but it seems that apple as a company (and as a stock) going to do very very well after this tablet will ‘get’ the high end market of ‘netbooks’. Just like Apple is doing with its laptop and their 90% share in the segment of expensive (=more then 1000$) laptop.

Kudos to Steve and his gang.

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