Henrik Werdelin

A friend of mine just converted from PC to a Mac and asked me what  smart programs he should install. As I was writing the list, I thought, I might as well share it here on the blog. So here goes in no specific order:

• Numbu – for a simple twitter client
• Evernote – for taking notes and have a backup of them online and on my iphone
• Cocktail – for cleaning of the mac on a weekly basis
• FormulatePro – to sign pdf files with my scanned signature
• Freemind – for making quick mindmaps
• Skitch – for taking screen shots and sharing them quickly
• Firefox – for browsing
• Firefox plugins:
  • - Drop.io – for quick big file sharing
  • - GreaseMonkey – for installing all sort of geeky scripts
  • - FireBug – for doing quick changes to websites to explain changes or see how cool stuff is done
  • - Delicious – for quick bookmapping
  • - FireFtp – for easy and quick ftp tasks inside firefox
  • - Google Redesigned – for a nicer design of gmail and google apps
• Skype – for video and video calls
• Adium – for being online with msn/aim/jabber/gchat
• Google Quick Search Box – for general quick search across my computers and the web
• Dropbox – for quick/easy file sharing with girlfriend and freelancers
• Logmein – for quick remote controlling my mac when I am away from it
• TimeMachine – for doing local backups of my pc
• JungleDisk for remote backup of my archive and my weekly backup
• MobileMe – for sync of my settings across multiple macs and calendar sync to Iphone
• CardScan – for keeping digital copies of all the business cards I get and having an online backup of them
• 1Password – for keeping track of all my passwords (and sync’ing it with my Iphone)
• Iphoto – for general handling of my pictures
• Imovie – for editing of my videos
• ITunes – to listen to call podcasts and buy tvshows for long haul travel (as well as music of cause)
• Smultron – for the few times where I wanna read code – or hack up some html/css
• Balsamiq Mockups – for doing quick prototypes and mockups
• FacebookSync – for getting my friends pictures into “Address Book”
• GrandPerspective – for cleaning up my harddrive and figure out where all the harddisk went
• Opera 10 - for when I am on a super flacky wifi or gprs connection and still want to browse
• Seashore – for free very basic picture editing
• VLC – for when people send me a odd video format that nothing else will play
• ScreenFlow – for when I need to do screencapture to explain something. (think there is a cheaper version out there)
• Ical connected to Google Calendar – for getting a calendar for work, private and a shared one with my GF

Online services (I use many online services almost like apps, so they are included here)

• Gmail – for all my emails
• MotionBox – for cloud storage of all my videos
• Picassa – for cloud storage of all my pictures
• Facebook – for getting in touch with friends
• Twitter – for getting in touch with friends I dont know yet
• Delicious – for getting track of all the websites I find and like
• WordPress – for writing random thoughts and keeping some info about myself online
• Google reader - for reading RSS feeds and subscribing to blogs
• Last.fm - for listening to music I didnt know I would like
• Jigsaw – for when I want an 1-click music video channel
• Joost – for when I watch great TV

Think thats about it.