I’ll now be working from home two days a week, and took a work iMac home with me. (Doing coding on my 12″ iBook would be too painful to contemplate.)
So last night, and this morning, I did a complete, from-scratch build out on this iMac. I’ve been building up a list of the software I need to get a base level of functionality on a new OS X box. They are ordered largely in the order in which I installed them — which is why QuickSilver is first; it’s far too painful to work on a box without QS installed. I’ll post more about WHY these apps are so important to me if anyone is interested.
- QuickSilver
- Google Notifier
- Firefox
- Firefox Extensions:
- Yojimbo
- TextMate
- Twitterific
- OmniOutliner Pro
- OmniGraffle Pro
- OmniFocus
- VPNTracker
- Microsoft Office 2004
- Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client
- Excel
- Word
- Powerpoint
- Not Media Player or Entourage
- Adium
- Growl
- SSHKeychain
- Now Up To Date & Contact
- MouseLocator
- Microsoft Intellipoint Mouse Driver for the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 4.0 (My favorite mouse.)
- wClock
- AppleJack
- TextExpander
- Delivery Status Widget
- DashboardStarter
Dashboard Kickstart - StopIt (Dashboard Timer App)
- Shuffle Saver
- Flash Player
Comments 3
Do you lose your mouse a lot?
Posted 09 Oct 2007 at 7:43 pm ¶Actually, yes. It can happen. At work I have two 23″ monitors — at home only one 20″. Still, that can be a lot of real estate in which to locate a tiny cursor.
(As I write this, it sounds RETARDED. Yet I swear, MouseLocator is actually very useful!)
Posted 09 Oct 2007 at 7:47 pm ¶I lose my mouse cursor all the time, but I just thought I was a dork.
Posted 09 Oct 2007 at 11:08 pm ¶