Top Macintosh Utilities

Published: May 12, 2007Posted in: technologyTags:


From Lifehacker comes a list of Top 10 Macintosh util­i­ties:

It’s not always the full-​​blown soft­ware appli­ca­tions that make the biggest dif­fer­ence on your com­puter; often it’s the small do-​​one-​​thing-​​well util­i­ties that enhance our com­put­ing expe­ri­ence that much more.

Here’s a few of my per­sonal favorites:

Preview.app, the most ubiq­ui­tous, most use­ful, most under-​​appreciated appli­ca­tion on my Macintosh. I use it every­day, all the time, for all sorts of image types, from PDF to TIFF.

Makes for a much more attrac­tive bat­tery dis­play, tak­ing up only a sliver of space instead of an elephant-​​sized chunk. Available from: http://​www​.orange​-carb​.org/​S​BM/

Another favorite of those who wish to view their video with­out wor­ry­ing about for­mat or any­thing else. Regardless of the for­mat, VLC just works. Available from: http://​www​.vide​olan​.org/​v​lc/

Newly avail­able for Mac, Mozy is still tech­ni­cally in beta. At first, it grad­u­ally reduced the size of my data stored remotely… a few megabytes less each day… but in the last few weeks, it’s been rock solid. It’s nice to know my key doc­u­ments are auto­mat­i­cally stored off-​​site, sev­eral times a day. (I also irreg­u­larly back every­thing up to a local server, too, just in case.) Get it from: http://​mozy​.com/​m​o​z​y​/​m​a​c​m​ozy

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