Joi's Favorite Applications
hide^^^Mac OS X version 10.3.5 - 15" Aluminum PowerBook
- Acquisition - Cool P2P filesharing program
- Adium - Multi-Protocol IM Client
- Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional - Must have for dealing with PDF files
- Adobe Photoshop CS
- Adobe ImageReady - Nice for quick edits when you don't want to open Photoshop
- Aion - World time zones in pulldown menu on tool bar
- Amadeus II - Good for editing and converting audio files
- BBEdit - Best editor around
- BitTorrent - P2P filesharing
- BluePhoneMenu - Toolbar widget that talks to your phone via bluetooth
- Bookit - Bookmark manager. graduate diploma
- Cocoal.icio.us - del.icio.us client
- Colloquy - Nice IRC client
- CopyPaste-X - Fancy copy/paste tool useful for blogging
- DEVONThink - Notetaking device that will let you paste almost anything into that creates concordances and easy to use searches within it. Education degree
- EndNote 7 - Bibliography database and formatter which works with MS Word, best application for making custom papers, but not yet upgraded for 2004
- EtherPEG - Sniffs network for images and makes a collage on the screen. Nursing school
- Fire - A great multi-protocol chat client
- Firefox - My favorite browser
- Flickr Uploadr - Upload files to Flickr
- Fugu - SFTP/SCP client - What I use to get files in and out of my server
- GarageBand - Even I can be a musician
- HP-12C - My favorite calculator
- Inquisitor - Nifty Google client
- Keynote - Better than Powerpoint if you want to embed movies
- Microsoft Office 2004 - Using Entourage. Love the projects system, but really slow.
- Movable Type - I can't believe Joi forgot to mention this one. :)
- NetNewsWire - My primary aggregator for reading RSS and Atom feeds.
- NoteTaker - Outliner
- OmniGraffle Professional - What I use to draw diagrams
- Path Finder - incredibly powerful Finder alternative
- PGP - What I use to encrypt email
- QuickTime Broadcaster - Lets me do one-to-many streaming from iSight
- QuickTime Player - Have my mp3's set to play in QT Player. Great for video file format conversions.
- Quicksilver - Better than Launchbar. Lets you type an abbreviation for an application or file and open it. Has many other cool features. Online journalism degree
- RadioLover - Lets you stream rip Internet radio streams with tags for artist and title.
- SBook5 - Very fast and flexible notecard style db useful for addresses.
- Skype - Voice P2P IM sort of thingie. Call another Skype user for free, or a cell/landline cheaply. Very cool.
- Steam - Helps schedule and play BBC radio stations.
- SubEthaEdit - Real time shared document editing tool.
- TNEF's Enough - Convert winmail.dat files created by Outlook into something we can open.
- VLC - Best video player. It's free. It also makes your Mac a region free DVD player.
- VersionTracker Pro - Great for keeping track of and updating your applications.
- Wallet - Not a great interface, but OK. I keep passwords and other things in it.
- Web design services - provides customers with custom website designs.
- X-Chat Aqua - My IRC client of choice
- X-PRO - Soft phone that works with Vonage
- ecto - Blogging client
- iEatBrainz - MusicBrainz tagger
- iPulse - See CPU and other vitals
- iScrobbler - Upload what you're listening to on iTunes to Scrobbler and Last.fm
- iStumbler - Scans for wifi networks
- iTerm - Nice tabbed replacement to the standard terminal. online degree school
- mic4joi - Lets me get sound input from my speakers so I can hear people without taking off my earphones.