I have compiled a list of a few essential mac apps that I use on a daily basis.
- Hulu Desktop – With the Hulu desktop, it transforms your mac intro the essential set top box. It’s powered by the wide variety of diverse content on Hulu, and brings it to your mac desktop. Use your Apple remote to navigate the menus and watch your favorite movies and tv shows with ease and simplicity.
- Google Quick Search Box - With the Google Quick search box you search your computer the ease. The standard universal search the is pre-bundled with Mac Osx is Spotlight; the major differences between them is that Google Quick search box can search both the files on your computer and web content. Also it can launch applications, search contacts, and even information stored on your Google account.
- Handbrake - Handbrake allows you to rip dvds in excellent quality and save them on your mac or transfer them to your other devices; such as your iPhone or iPod. It does become stressful to have 100 dvds stuffed into a drawer, when you could just rip them over using Handbrake and sync them with your iPhone for flicks to-go.
- OpenOffice – OpenOffice is fairly similar to Microsoft’s Office suite. OpenOffice bundles spreedsheets, word processing, and presentations into a simple application bundle that allows you to create projects for personal or business and export them into the file format of your choice. With the tools that are within OpenOffice, the possibility are certainly endless.
- Adium - Adium is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Mac OS X, that supports a variety of chat and instant messaging services in one application. From Facebook to Google talk. and from Yahoo Messenger to bonjour. Adium connects your favorite chat services and you together, with a simple and intelligent interface that will keep you in the loop with others.
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