Another year has come and gone, and another set of applications have made there was into my everyday work flow. This was an amazing year for applications and four new applications have made it into my top ten list, including taking the top one and two spots away from previous top applications.
- Dropbox (new for 2010) No application or program has changed the way I use my computers more then Dropbox. The days of worrying about file changes and transferring files between computers are over! Dropbox syncronizes all your files in your Dropbox folder to all your Mac, Windows and Linux computers. The synchronization is so fast both ways that most files take just seconds before the changes appear on all your computers. All files are kept locally as well so you can access all your files even when you are offline. This is the one application I believe that everybody can benefit from.
Price: FREE for 2GB, $99.95/year for 50GB
- LaunchBar 5 (new for 2010) is an application and file launcher taken to the next level. I was a little bit hesitant to try LaunchBar because I thought Spotlight did a good enough job, but when I finally took the plunge, I got hooked. LaunchBar can not only launch applications, but can access data within them, go through your contacts, add events to iCal and so much more. Any power user must check out this application.
Price: 30-Day Free Trial then $35.00 USD
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While mimicking the OS X dock and stacks isn’t new, it’s certainly not common. Nettuts has shown us a few ways to do Outside the Box Navigation with OS X style docks and stacks navigation.
jQuery OS X Stack and Drop Stack is my favorite navigation style out of the three shown in the tutorial. It’s super lightweight (~1kb). It might be a little awkward having the navigation in the bottom right or left of the browser window but it would certainly be creative and save lots of space.
Macintosh computers are really known to bring out the creative side of people. To harness it, and refine your potential there are some great Mac tools that you can use online and some of them for free.
As Microsoft burdens you with tons of softwares that serve the purpose and slow downs the computer at the same time these serve as a better alternative. The best part is that abundant tools are available to do things from simple text editors to image processing tools. Most of these tools provide an easy to use interface and work efficiently. Here is a list of useful Mac applications, which looks really slick too.
Fontcase
Fontcase is an elegant font management software. It combines simplicity and raw power all underneath a streamlined workstream. It organises your installed fonts with a powerful tagging system to automate the process. Like iTunes is for music, Fontcase is for fonts!
Postbox
Postbox, powered by Mozilla Technology is a powerful email management software with cutting edge features that have set new standards for Email Clients. It has a powerful message and content search with autocomplete features. It provides a smarter message and content views that simplifies mail organisation as well as tracking them. It possess superior message handling and organisation features as well as strong security features.
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Sequel Pro is a free MySQL management tool for Mac OS X.
It offers full table management (including indexes), supports MySQL views, imports/exports from SQL/CSV files & compatible with MySQL 3/4/5 databases.
The application supports SSH tunnel connections besides standard local & remote connections for reaching databases behind firewalls.
It can connect to multiple databases at the same time, offers automatic syntax highlighting for your custom queries, supports ~30 different encoding options & much more.
P.S. The project is open source & you can check the source for improving it further.
