Top Utilities For Enhancing OS X

Rob Williams · 06-26-2007, 10:40 PM

OS X has been praised for its simplicity, power, sophistication and functionality. But can this power and flexibility be improved upon? Today we will examine three OS X utilities, Quick Silver, OnyX and Path Finder that all claim they can. But can they? We are about to find out.

Please welcome Don 'MacMan' Williams to the site as a contributing editor. We at Techgage look forward to his occasional injecting of Apple content onto the website. God knows we are overdue

You can read the article here and discuss it here.

Matt Serrano · 06-26-2007, 11:44 PM

Nice job! TextExpander would have been a nice mention, but I have no complaints regardless.

Here's a quick list of general OS X applications I would recommend:

Adium - The best instant messenger out there. Honorable mention: Chax, an iChat plugin
Chicken of the VNC - Program that lets you access machines romotely
Handbrake / VusualHub / MacTheRipper - For all your legal DVD backup needs
Parallels / VMWare Fusion - running virtual machines within OS X
SuperDuper! - For backing up (until Time Machine debuts, at least)
Transmit - One of the best FTP clients available

MacMan · 06-26-2007, 11:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hotsoda

Nice job! TextExpander would have been a nice mention, but I have no complaints regardless.

Here's a quick list of general OS X applications I would recommend:

Adium - The best instant messenger out there. Honorable mention: Chax, an iChat plugin
Chicken of the VNC - Program that lets you access machines romotely
Handbrake / VusualHub / MacTheRipper - For all your legal DVD backup needs
Parallels / VMWare Fusion - running virtual machines within OS X
SuperDuper! - For backing up (until Time Machine debuts, at least)
Transmit - One of the best FTP clients available

How right you are! All of the programs you mention above are indeed great OS X programs and hopefully, I will get around to reviewing them someday?

All-in-all, I must say you have great taste in OS X programs hotsoda!

Matt Serrano · 06-27-2007, 02:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MacMan

How right you are! All of the programs you mention above are indeed great OS X programs and hopefully, I will get around to reviewing them someday?

All-in-all, I must say you have great taste in OS X programs hotsoda!

Thanks.

Now that I think about it, I forgot to mention Max, ffmpegx, VLC and OpenOffice (since NeoOffice has been super-seeded, though the current version sans X11 is apparently pretty buggy).

MacMan · 06-27-2007, 02:19 PM

For any who might like to see Quick Silver in action applegazette.com has just released two videos of it.

Enjoy. This is absolutely a most amazing program. Its also amazing that Black Tree makes it available for FREE!

http://www.applegazette.com/quick-ti...ics/#more-1575

Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EydTYOeqIrk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DYb56xxnh4

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Matt Serrano Coastermaker Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 126	Nice job! TextExpander would have been a nice mention, but I have no complaints regardless. Here's a quick list of general OS X applications I would recommend: Adium - The best instant messenger out there. Honorable mention: Chax, an iChat plugin Chicken of the VNC - Program that lets you access machines romotely Handbrake / VusualHub / MacTheRipper - For all your legal DVD backup needs Parallels / VMWare Fusion - running virtual machines within OS X SuperDuper! - For backing up (until Time Machine debuts, at least) Transmit - One of the best FTP clients available __________________ Follow me on Twitter \| flickr profile \| digg profile \| last.fm profile PC - Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit - E6300 @ 3.2GHz - abit IP35 Dark Raider - ASUS 8800GT Macbook - 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo - 2.5GB RAM - OS X 10.5 What I'm up to..

06-27-2007, 02:19 PM	#5
MacMan Coastermaker Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 213	Quick Silver video For any who might like to see Quick Silver in action applegazette.com has just released two videos of it. Enjoy. This is absolutely a most amazing program. Its also amazing that Black Tree makes it available for FREE! http://www.applegazette.com/quick-ti...ics/#more-1575 Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EydTYOeqIrk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DYb56xxnh4 __________________ http://www.my2cents4theday.blogspot.com/ M a c OS X!