| These are my 'must-haves', or very close to it, and most of them are free or offer a free version. Alfred 2 (search and a lot more) aText (text expansion) Adium (Chat) Adapter (audio/video filetype conversion) Caffeine (prevent display from dimming or sleeping) Chrome (browser) Colloquy (IRC client) Dash (documentation and snippet browser) Dashlane (password management) Doubleplane (window resizing) Dropbox (cloud storage) Evernote (notes, bulky) Firefox (browser) F.lux (smart display brightness) Handbrake (video transcoder) Hazel (file/folder automation) iTerm (terminal replacement) Jumpcut (store and recall clipboard history) MailMate (email) Mou (markdown editor with live preview)
Readkit (RSS reader) Screenmailer (free, easy screencast creation and sharing) Simplenote (notes, lean)
Skype (calls) Spark (hotkey) Sublime Text Editor 3 (text editor) TicToc (time tracking) VLC (media player) |