As I have the developer mentality (it comes with the job!!) to have a tendancy of wiping my machines every 6 months; I thought it would be a good idea to keep a list of all the software I really couldn’t do without for both my Macs and my PCs.
Online Solutions
- del.icio.us – Favourites, quick and widely use, JSON and XML APIs
- LinkedIN – Business Networking
- FaceBook – Social Networking
- WordPress – Blogging engine with massive theme and plugin extensions available
- FeedBurner – Monitor who is reading your blog
- Remember the Milk – Simple Ajax-style online todo list (ical support)
- Box.net – Free online storage
- Flickr – Online photo album/sharing
- Plaxo – Keeping all my address books in sync
- HostingRails – Great paid & free hosting for Ruby, CGI, Rails, Php, MySQL etc..
- Stikkit – Stikkies web service
Macintosh
- PhotoShop and ImageReady – Photo editing software you should ask your boss to buy!
- iRooster – Alarm Clock app for iTunes
- CyberDuck – Ftp program
- CssEdit – For editing CSS stylesheets… obviously!
- delimport – Allow spotlight to search your del.icio.us favourites
- Flame – Searches subnet for Rendezvous services
- Flip4Mac – Play those file extensions you really shouldn’t in Quicktime! (xvid, divx, wmv etc…)
- FolderShare – Microsoft bought app for folder syncing between Windows and Macs
- HandBrake – Rips Dvds onto your computer (for backup purposes of course!)
- ImageWell – when photoshop is too much hassle to startup for simple image re-sizing etc…
- iRed Lite – Control all apps with the apple remote
- iTerm – terminal replacement
- iStumbler – Searches for open/WEP/WPA wireless networks
- MacSaber – Turns my macbook into a light-saber!
- Parallels – VMWare like app for OSX; use until VMWare releases a faster OSX client
- QuickSilver – My favorite app of all time! Quick access to anything on your mac (like slickrun for a mac, but better)
- Apple Remote Desktop – Control all your macs using this enhanced VNC app by Apple
- SharePoints – Control shared folders on your mac
- smcFanControl – Control how hot you allow your macbook to get
- TextMate – The worlds greatest IDE
- Vienna – A great free RSS Reader
Windows
- E Text Editor – A port of TextMate for Windows
- AlphaXpLite – Makes your taskbar transparent like the new Leopard menu bar
- Ants Profiler – .NET profiling tool for finding performance issues in .NET code
- del.icio.us buttos for IE - Tag and maintain del.icio.us favorites from Internet Explorer
- Etheral - Network sniffer for troubleshooting complex remoting/web service call problems
- Fiddler - Simple Http monitor (use this before trying Etheral)
- FolderShare – Microsoft bought app for folder syncing between Windows and Macs
- Ghost Doc – Documentation generator for Visual Studios (good for copying comments from interface to implementation)
- Google Desktop – Event drivenindexing service for Windows (just ignore the gadgets.. they suck!)
- iColorFolder - Colour code your folders, like recent versions of OSX
- iTunes - If you don’t know what this is.. where have you been for the last five years?!!
- Resharper - Tool for speeding up Visual Stuidos development
- MacDrive - drivers for reading Mac Partitioned disks (like your iPod when HFS partioned)
- Snarl - Growl for Windows
- ObjectDock - Free dock for Windows
- Orca - Open and edit MSI files (for hard-core geeks)
- Stuffit - Zip program for Windows which opens zip, tar, gz, rar etc..
- Taskbar Shuffle – Allows you to re-order the apps as they appear in your taskbar
- TaskSwitchXP - light-weight Alt-Tab replacement
- TopDesk - Exposé for Windows
- TortoiseSvn - Subversion source control client for Windows
- Visual Task Tips - Vista-like previews for windows when minimised
