Mac Software I Own Licenses For
Even after years of using and contributing to open source software, I think good software is worth paying for. To inspire gift ideas this holiday season, here’s a list of the Mac software I own licenses for:
- 1Password – the best password manager ever.
- BluePhoneElite – when I had a phone this was compatible with, it was awesome. Control your phone from your desktop, pause music when you get calls, all kinds of future-is-now stuff.
- growliChat: – long since rendered obsolete, but was worth paying for at the time. Hooks up the Growl notification system to iChat.
- Hazel – moves around files for me. I mostly use it to file away downloads and clean up after deleting applications.
- MailPlane – A lovely Cocoa wrapper around Gmail. The best of the web and the desktop. This is how I survive email.
- MarsEdit – I’m writing this blog post in it.
- NetNewsWire – if I could tear myself away from Google Reader, I’d probably read my feeds with this. I used to live in it.
- PandoraJam – another web/desktop fusion, this time making the Pandora streaming music service a joy to use on your Mac.
- PodWorks – it gets music off your iPhone or iPod. Essential.
- SuperDuper – the only backup utility I have total and complete faith in.
- TextMate – the ur-editor. All the power and flexibility of arcane editors like Vim and Emacs with a beautiful Mac face.
- Twitterific – how I interact with Twitter more often than not.
- Videobox – a simple, cute way to get videos off of sites like YouTube and Google Video and onto your iPhone or hard drive.
- Visual Hub – a simple, fast way to get other kinds of videos onto your iPhone or iPod.
- Xtorrent – My preferred Torent client. Subscribe to feeds of torrents (great for shows) or search right from the application. Speedy and stable.
- Yep – they say “like iPhoto for your PDFs”, I say it’s more like iTunes. Regardless, I can’t live/work without it.
I’ve also been given licenses for the following applications by their generous, attractive developers:
- Acorn – a superb, lightweight image editor that completely obviates the need for me to keep Photoshop on my system.
- Pukka – a pleasant way to save bookmarks to del.icio.us on your Mac.
- VoodooPad Pro – a desktop wiki notebook thing that I use from time to time.
Good software is good. Buy some!