Must have software and tools (Mac OS X Edition)

A couple of weeks ago Tim posted his must have software and tools. Always one to steal a good idea, and wanting to balance out his Windows focus, here’s my list.

General Apps

Safari - I’m not a huge browser plugin guy and Safari is pretty darn fast.

Firefox - The above being said, having a backup browser is a good thing.

Mail.app - Solid mail client with excellent free form searching.

iChat - I never got into Adium because this guy has always worked for me.

iCal - Really looking forward to true Exchange integration with Snow Leopard. Google Calendar integration means I actually know what is scheduled at home now.

iTunes - Does a wonderful job with podcasts and video podcasts.

Bloglines - All my RSS in the same place on any computer.

Twitter - Still not sure why I like it so much.

OmniFocus - No program has saved me more often than OmniFocus. Plus it integrates perfectly with Mail.app which makes Inbox Zero easy.

OmniGraffle - People always ask if there is a Visio for the Mac. The question is wrong. It should be is there an OmniGraffle for Windows? (Answer: No.)

Comic Life - If you have ever read one of my design documents you’ll know how much I love this one.

MS Word - Word is the standard for business documents.

Keynote - All my presentations and screencasts are done in Keynote. The animation support alone is worth the price of admission.

Snapz Pro X - Speaking of screencasts, this is my screen capture program…

QuickTime Pro - …and since I’m unable to do anything in a single take you gotta edit.

BBEdit - As far as editors go BBEdit is old school. Sometimes it is good to be old school.

Parallels - For those times when you have to run Windows.

Transmit - An FTP program that costs money? I know, but it makes up for it by being brilliant.

Developer Tools

Terminal.app - Before OS X I was on Linux/Unix. You can give a guy a great UI but you can never take away the command line.

TestTrack Pro - I have used this just about every day for the last seven or eight years.

Surround SCM - Well, since I kinda work on it and all…

Xcode - It baffles people coming from Visual Studio world but it has really turned into a nice IDE.

Instruments - Because sometimes we all leak memory.

Shark - And sometimes we just run slow.

UnitTest++ - Best cross platform C++ unit testing framework I have found.

BuildBot - Nothing more fun than getting emails about broken CI builds. Wait, there’s lots of things more fun than that.