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13 Must Have Applications for Personal Use
The past weeks I’ve been listing applications specific to a certain type of profession so I thought I was a good idea to today list some apps that is great for personal use!
Things
Things we have covered before in a review. It’s a to-do list manager that helps you organize your life and to-do items so that you get more things done instead of thinking about what to do! It’s got an iPhone companion app that syncs with the desktop application so that you can have your to-do’s with you anywhere.
Developer: CulturedCode
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
Price: $49.95
NetNewsWire
RSS Feeds are available on almost any site and NetNewsWire is an RSS Feed reader for your desktop. It’s got a simple interface that lets you easily read through the incoming feeds. You can sort either by a specific feed (or organize the feeds into groups) or view them all at once.
Developer: Newsgator
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Price: Free
Adium
If you do a lot of instant messaging, Adium is going to come to your rescue! It’s a client that supports every major chat network like MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Gtalk and even Facebook (and more). With a nice interface and with many extensions (such as feature additions and themes) you can get Adium like you want it.
Developer: Adium
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Price: Free
Tweetie
Twitter user? If you are, and you are using the web interface, check out Tweetie. It’s a desktop client made specifically for the Mac and supports all major Twitter features. You can also view conversations by just clicking on a tweet, to see all messages that it is made of.
Developer: Atebits
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Price: Free (ad supported, $19.95 ad free)
Cha-Ching
As a personal finance manger, Cha-Ching helps you manage where your money is going. You can set up different accounts and simply add transactions as they happen. You can also keep budgets to make sure you are in control over your finances.
Developer: Midnight Apps
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Price: $39.95
Evernote
Instead of jotting down all notes on a piece of paper, try Evernote. It is a note application that is available cross-platform as well as on the web (meaning you can get to your notes from everywhere). You can write quick (or long) text notes as well as video and photo notes to store.
Developer: Evernote
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Price: Free
VLC
The swiss army knife in a video player format, VLC can handle just about any movie you throw at it. It’s a great tool to in your arsenal as it really is a nice video player.
Developer: VideoLAN
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Price: Free
SuperDuper!
Don’t forget to do backups! If your hard-drive dies, all your data will be lost, unless you have got a backup! SuperDuper! lets you simply clone your entire drive over to an external drive, creating a bootable copy. If your main hard-drive ever crashes, you can just boot up from the clone and be back working straight away!
Developer: Shirt Pocket
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Price: $27.95
iSale
If you are a frequent eBay seller, iSale will be an application that you really like. It lets you keep track and manage your eBay auctions as well as create good-looking auction pages for your item(s).
Developer: Equinux
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Price: $39.95
Flip4Mac
QuickTime is great in many ways, but when a website has got a .wmv file, it won’t help you. Enter the Flip4Mac player that lets you play up Windows Media files on your computer in most QuickTime based applications like QuickTime Player, iMovie and Final Cut.
Developer: Telestream
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
Price: Free
Handbrake
If you are moving videos from a DVD to your computer, HandBrake will help you tremendously. Upon launch, just choose which volume you wish to copy, and then where to copy it to and in what file format and HandBrake will do the process for you.
Developer: HandBrake
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Price: Free
Spotify
A recent hit is the free Spotify service that streams music to your computer from their vast library. In the app you can search for songs, play them and create playlists that you can also share with any Spotify user.
Developer: Spotify
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Price: Free
Delicious Library
Organizing your inventory of books and movies can be a tough job. Delicious Library will at least make it a bit funnier. Allowing you to add items (books, movies, gadgets, clothing and more) to the application library. It can even track rentals!
Developer: Delicious Monster
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Price: $40
About Erik Bernskiold
Erik is the owner of the Bernskiold Media Group and is a Web Designer, Photographer and Software-Trainer. He is interested in all aspects of graphic design and media production as well as gadgets and technology.
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Anybody able to provide a token for Spotify? Thanks.
Marty
iSale?! It’s totally slow and it submits all data to the developer’s server first, not to eBay. Those German data nazis won’t see my private data, thanks but no thanks!!
You removed my comment on iSale violating the eBay license agreements. Nice going, MacAppZone! Meanwhile, I don’t think it’s a good idea for the developer to be able to know which items I’m selling on eBay. None of their business.
Actually no, it was marked incorrectly as a spam message in the admin =)
I have to agree with most of the list as I use many of the apps listed.
Adium,Cha-Ching,Evernote,VLC,Fli4Mac, Handbrake, etc…are all on my Mac.
Delicious Library I also have, but don’t use it that much yet, as for iSale that i also got in MacHeist.
Tweetie is very good but for the use I give to Twitter, Adium is enough.
Spotify I don’t use it as it’s not available in my country. I don’t think it’s worth the list as there many others that are probably more useful than this.
SuperDuper! is good but I like use another kind of backup method
I just gave Adium a quick test of Twitter integration but it was just a bit too messy for my taste. Loving Tweetie for the simplicity and multi-account control.
Spotify is an amazing service, especially being free. It’s like featuring Hulu or any type of content provider that is region specific. Once you are able to use it, it is definitely a must-have for music!
I’m curious what type of other backup method you use? Personally I use a three way method, carbon clone with SuperDuper daily, backing up to the cloud using Mozy and also TimeMachine going.