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OS X Applications

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Application Sources

• Mac OS X Downloads Apple's list of new/interesting applications.
• OS X Developer Documentation
• OS X Links An extensive list of links to applications and other information (over 8400 applications listed on October 18, 2003).
• VersionTracker tracks new/updated software releases.
• MacUpdate tracks new/updated software releases.
• OS X FreshMeat.net Lists new/updated open source (mostly) software releases.

Software that I use

• Aladdin Systems StuffIt and other useful utilities
• Editors
  • Alpha Home Page Another very good text editor---high performance, low cost. Shareware.
  • Bare Bones Software, Inc. BBEdit: my text editor of choice.
  • emacs
• TeX/LaTeX
  • TeXShop my primary class notes preparation environment.
  • TeX on Mac OS X More specific details about installing/using teTeX on OS X.
  • Equation Editors for TeX/LaTeX
    • MathEQ Expression Editor is probably the best (I'm biased, since I was involved in developing it a number of years ago).
    • Equation Editor
    • Equation Service
• Graphical FTP Clients
  • Fugu an open-source graphical FTP client
  • Transmit graphical FTP client
• Drawing Applications
  • OmniGraffle exports figures in EPS and JPEG (more)
• Information Management/Outliners
  • OmniOutliner In addition to its outlining capabilities it also has some spreadsheet capabilities and can export to LaTeX.
    • OmniOutliner to LaTeX AppleScripts.
  • NoteTaker
• Miscellaneous Applications
  • NetNewWire a news aggregator.
  • PathFinder a powerful Finder replacement. The preview capability is really nice!
  • SnapzProX a screen capture program.
  • iPulse a system monitoring tool.

Other useful links

• MacTech Magazine Useful articles and information---all neatly archived

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Modified: October 18, 2003
Created: October 18, 2003