Re: Suggestions/Recommendations

Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote:

I am creating a "wish list" of applications I might consider getting, and
would very much be interested in what others think. The best way to pose it
might be "Were price not an issue, which applications would you put in your
shopping cart?" Of course, price (in terms of "bang-for-the-buck")
ultimately will be a consideration, but I think it should be separated out
so as not to affect the initial "requirements analysis."
[snip]
In any event, back to my initial question: "Were price not an issue, which
applications would you put in your shopping cart?"

Instead I'm simply going to show you the contents of my current Dock:
<http://img87.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jamiesdockuk7.png>. From left
to right:

Finder, Camino (web browser), Vienna (RSS reader), Fetch (FTP client),
Transmission (BitTorrent), Mail, Fluid Site Specific Browser, MacSOUP
(offline Usenet client), Address Book, Ircle (IRC), Adium (IM), Skype
(VoIP), iChat, iCal, iTunes, VLC (video and DVD player),
GraphicConverter, iPhoto, Xee (image viewer), Preview, Delicious
Library, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (but I've remained a poor student
over the years :-D ), VoodooPad (Personal wiki), AppleWorks 6, Pages,
Numbers, Keynote, Bento 2 (database), iWeb, TextWrangler (text editor),
TextEdit, Excalibur (application independent spellchecker),
OmniDictionary (DICT client), Dictionary, Stickies, MathPad (graphing
calculator), Activity Monitor, Terminal, HardwareGrowler (Growl add-on
that notifies me when devices are attached/removed), System Preferences,
EasyFind (for when Spotlight fails me all too often), BOINC Manger
(distributed computing for charity), VMware Fusion (virtualisation,
mainly with Windows XP in my case).

What you cannot see are the contents of my favourite games stack (or the
_much_ larger contents of my game folder), but that's ok as I think
you're more into serious software in this case. Likewise there are my
often used collection of classic console and computer emulators which I
launch from elsewhere. Plus a bunch of more rarely used apps and
utilities I don't clutter the Dock with. Oh, and I have MS Office '08
lurking below in the Finder, should I require it for documents that
won't play nice with my preferred apps.

You also cannot see TypeIt4Me (text expansion), Jumpcut (clipboard
history menulette), Visor (systemwide Quake console type - if you know
what I mean - add-on for Terminal that is accessible by hotkey), and
iStat menus (various system monitors and a world clock/calendar as
menulettes) - all of which I use constantly.

Nor can you see my Dashboard Widgets, of which a few favourites are
Apple's Weather widget (for myself and friends far away), Sing that
tune! (automatically looks up and adds lyrics to tracks playing in
iTunes), Apple's unit and currency conversion widget, and Systrans'
language translation widget.

But back to my most often used serious apps in my Dock - if I had the
money right now (times are tight), I'd:

Replace iPhoto with Aperture 2.

Upgrade to VoodooPad Pro.

Buy Nisus Writer Pro now it's reasonably mature, which would replace
Pages for word processing, if not page layout.

Upgrade from TextWrangler to BBEdit.

Other than that I'm pretty happy with my current software toolset. I'm
sure there are improvements I could make, but my needs are pretty
modest.

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
.

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