Comments on: Air Install List

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:20:44 +0000

Oh, my … another great mac apps list

Well, my must-haves are:
- Firefox
- Coda
- CSSEdit
- AdiumX
- VirtualHostX (for developing many sites at once)
- iWork

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By: Brian Dusablon

Brian Dusablon — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:51:07 +0000

I’d add Fluid, which gives you the ability to create SSBs for certain sites. I use it for Netvibes, which I prefer to NetNewsWire. I also use it for Twitter, Gmail, Gcal and my work webmail.

It works for some sites, and not for others. Depends on the site, but it’s wonderful to switch between the main sites I visit as apps.

Other apps: MarsEdit, Coda, Jing and SuperDuper.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:20:12 +0000

I replaced it with iStat Menus a while back.

By: Trevor Turk

Trevor Turk — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:11:27 +0000

I’m surprised that you don’t have MenuMeters on there. I can’t imaging using a Mac without it.

http://www.ragingmen[...]/menumeters/

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Better Elevation » Blog Archive » Macbook Pro Install List — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:14:27 +0000

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By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:57:13 +0000

I do have Fusion actually, with stripped down IE6 and IE7 installs.

By: Matt Wiebe

Matt Wiebe — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:57:33 +0000

No vmware fusion or parallels in your list? I know that I use need to use fusion to fire up that dark, painful object called IE on occassion… Or maybe a stripped down virtual xp disk would still take up too much space on your Air?

By: Chris Pederick

Chris Pederick — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:51:32 +0000

You mention LaunchBar - have you tried QuickSilver…kidding, kidding! Whenever you mention LaunchBar someone asks if you have tried QuickSilver so I figured I’d beat them to it!

Have to agree with Coda and Growl, especially now that Firefox 3 supports Growl. For Growl I use the iPhonesque theme.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:16:37 +0000

Something installed Growl for me - I don’t recall doing it explicitly. I use it too, with the nano theme.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:10:14 +0000

I put Growl in there, and I use Growl to monitor lots of things. Throwing alerts in the top-right of the screen tends to not distract me unless I want the distraction. [Admission: I don’t truly work off of a Mac, as I’m chained to Windows at the office.]

By: Joe Casabona

Joe Casabona — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:57:33 +0000

I use Coda for my web dev and it’s a must have for me. It’s a nice little IDE that integrated FTP, an very nice CSS Editor (though I never use it), built in terminal access and ebooks!

Word is there is also a jquery plug-in, thought I haven’t looked for it yet.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:12:45 +0000

I dumped Twitterific in favor of TwitterFox - a Firefox add-in that saves a ton of real estate on screen. Sits nicely in the bottom of my Firefox window.

That’s an interesting way to look at it. I close Twitterrific a few seconds after it pops up and as a separate app it is available to me on any virtual desktop instead of just in my browser.

By: Tom Ransom

Tom Ransom — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:54:55 +0000

I dumped Twitterific in favor of TwitterFox - a Firefox add-in that saves a ton of real estate on screen. Sits nicely in the bottom of my Firefox window.

Also like the del.icio.us add-in instead of Pukka (but only works with a single account.)

My other must-haves (beyond yours) - OmniFocus, Mamp Pro and QuickSilver.