1. Reaper – 60 days trial period and US$60 for discounted license for personal use and US$225 for full commercial license. This DAW comes with plugins for all your needs and works any VST,AU and JS plugins. Super stable and light program. Fully customisable GUI to make it behave like any DAW you are already familiar with. I personally prefer its native look and feel. Play around for 60 days and buy it even if you don’t like it.
Cockos Reaper – Best low cost DAW software
Apple Garage Band – One of the simplest DAW’s I’ve come across and come pre-installed on new mac’s
3. Open office – Free The best replacement for Office
OpenOffice.org – Best Free Office Alternative
4. Gimp – Free The best free image manipulation tool you can find. Perfect replacement for photoshop or for people who cannot afford Photoshot at the moment. Layout and features resemble photoshop making it easy to use and migrate.
GIMP – Free Alternative to Photoshop
VirtualBox lets you run another OS like windows within Mac OSX like an application. Supports network and USB also.
6. Firefox Browser – Free Very quick light and lets you sync bookmarks, history and passwords with other devices including android etc. Was a breeze switching from my Windows laptop to this mac, all my passwords and bookmarks synced once I sign in.
Firefox browser with sync makes switching across devices seamless
7. MusicBrainz Picard Takes care of all my music tagging, has auto detect feature also for those files without any track information.
MusicBrainz Picard – Tag Music with right track information (id3) from online resources automatically
8. GnuCash – Free My accountant. Easy to setup and use. Some nice videos available online for ones like me who don’t really dig accounts
GNUCash – Free Accounts/Accounting Software for Mac
Room Eq Wizard REW
10. DropBox (or SkyDrive) – Free and paid version Sync files to a cloud and make them available on all the devices you use.
DropBox sync’s your files on a cloud and lets you access them from any device. You could even access files via internet browsers.
QuickSilver – Glorified ‘Spotlight’ with lots of possibilities.
12. Chicken of the VNC – Free VNC Client need I say more
Chicken of the VNC – VNC client, I use it to talk to Avid Venue Consoles at gigs.
14. Pocket – Free Read blogs and articles offline with this app. syncs pages you want and keeps an offline copy for you to read later. Also syncs with iOS devices like iPad.
Pocket for Mac – Lets you save web pages or stories in a clean readable format for offline use.
15. Evernote is a great notes app that syncs with your devices via apps. Has an array of other apps built in.
Evernote – notes app that syncs online
Skitch – Simple app for making notes on images. Sync’s with Evernote so you always have access to your images and notes.
17. Skim – Free PDF reader
18. Tweetdeck for OSX Twitter client with features to make managing your timeline easy. Add custom column for various stuff including search filters to track particular hash tags.
TweetDeck – Twitter client for Mac with features to make life easy
19. VLC – Free Play almost any video format with this player. Audio according to me is not all that great, but it’s relief when you want to just watch a video without having to wonder which player to use for a format.
VLC – Video player for almost any format
20. Blue Griffon – Free HTML and CSS Style editor in WYSISYG app.
Blue Griffon
21. COG – Free Play high quality FLAC and other lossless formats. (Alternative app is Clementine)
COG – Lossless Audio File Player
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