pepperidge farm remembers

I am soon going to be macless. I expect this will only be temporary. So before I trade this on in, I'm going to write down all extra bits I can't live without. This is merely an aid to an aging memory.

Quicksilver

The application launcher to end all application launchers. Launchy and spotlight look like the start menu compared to QS.

TextWrangler

Any text editor that is both free and can regex replace, recursively over a directory tree, is a winner in my book.

Adium

It's kind of like Pidgin, but it, you know, works.

Transmission

Dead simple bittorrent client.

SmartSVN

Pretty good GUI svn client.

FileMerge (from Apple Xcode Utilities)

GUI diff on any two files. Very nice. Use it all the time.

Handbrake

DVD backups are really useful. Handbrake takes feckin forever, but it works.

Growl

Pop up notifications. It pretty much comes with everything these days.

instantShot

There are a multitude of "better than default" screen grab utilities. This one works well for me.

iStats menus

CPU and Memory graphs right in the menu bar, where you actually need them.

iStats pro

Super detailed stats about your computer, as a dashboard widget. There are a lot of these too. This is the one I like.

magiCal

Another thing I need in the menu bar: today's date.

Witch

Apple-Tab through windows, not applications. Kind of useful when you have three firefox windows and 10 terminals running, but I still find myself using expose most of the time.