Lee Collins Top 10 Must-Have Mac App List

A lot of people recently have been asking me about my switch to Mac and how things are going.

In a word – AWESOME!

I love my MacBook and I don’t see myself EVER going back to a Windows-based machine. The entire experience has been incredible – from having a computer that WORKS, to the exceptional support, to, well… EVERYTHING.

And once you have your Mac you will want to outfit it with the coolest apps – right?

So here’s a short list of my
Top 10 recommended Mac apps
(in no particular order):

Jing – yes, you should install and love jing for making short screen capture movies :-)
http://www.jingproject.com/

Growl - Growl lets Mac OS X applications unobtrusively tell you when things happen. I have mine setup to display in a semi-transparent box in the top right of my screen.
http://growl.info/

Hidden – the cheapest and most advanced theft recovery solution for your Mac
http://hiddenapp.com
(normally $20, only $10 with code TUAW50)

Audacity – free audio editor and recorder
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Skype – so we can chit-chat homie
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/

Disk Inventory X - shows what files takes up how much space (similar to Sequoia for Windows)
http://www.derlien.com/

Firefox – the best web browser around in my opinion
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/firefox/

Gimp – free image editing program (free alternative to Photoshop)
http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html

Monolingual – I don’t speak Portugese, so why should my Mac?
(save disk space by deleting unnecessary languages)
http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/

MacJanitor - cleans up various system files & stuff to keep your Mac running smoothly
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/downloads.html

So that’s my list…

What Mac apps do you love and can’t live without?