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My favorite MacOS software so far
I generate such as list on a regular basis, but I think it is still useful to rehash it. Here is the the software I use on MacOS currently.
- Fink, mostly for gnuplot, subversion and tetext.
- Python. My favorite language.
- Firefox. Firefox is good enough, but not great. Some applets do not work on Firefox, so I still need to use Safari.
- TextWrangler. The best free MacOS text editor. I tried the commercial upgrade, BBEdit, but it does not seem worth my time. It does not fix the annoyances I experienced with TextWrangler, so it is no good to me. Maybe if I were a Web designer, but I am not…
- PDFView. Great replacement for Preview. Unlike Preview, it automatically detects when the PDF file has changed on disk.
- Eclipse. Great Java IDE.
- iTunes. Decent podcast management tool.
- NeoOffice. When you really need to open this RTF file someone sent you. I tend to increasingly use Google Docs and spresent though.
- Skype. When you need to videoconference.
- Apple’s terminal. I am looking for a better alternative, but iTerm is not it (iTerm breaks the arrow keys!).
I still prefer Linux as a server machine, but for desktop use, I am now convinced that Apple has the best solution currently.