Prepping a new Snow Leopard build

Submitted by shrop on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 2:42pm

So I am rebuilding my 15" MacBook Pro for work. I decided to make a list of apps I need for rebuilding. These are the apps I think are necessary for me. Thoughts? Missing apps?

  • Novell Client
  • Cisco VPN Client
  • Alfred
  • ZumoDrive
  • Evernote
  • 1Password
  • Microsoft Office 2008
  • Adobe CS4 Design Premium
  • Google Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Opera
  • VMWare3
  • Linkinus
  • Socialite
  • iState Menus
  • VirtualHostX
  • Art Text 2
  • Bru Server Console
  • Carbon Copy Cloner
  • Changes
  • Color Schemer Studio
  • Chicken of the VNC
  • CoRD
  • Cornerstone
  • CSSEdit
  • Navicat
  • Disco
  • Fluid
  • Tempo (Fluid App)
  • GitX
  • Git
  • Google Wave (Fluid App)
  • HTTP Client
  • LightSpeed
  • Lingon
  • Jing
  • iLife '09
  • iWork '09
  • Growl
  • HardwareGrowler
  • last.fm
  • PandoraBoy
  • MailServe for Leopard
  • Marsedit
  • MindNode Pro
  • OmniFocus
  • Picturesque
  • Apple Remote Desktop
  • Server Admin Tools
  • SOAP Client
  • Sound Student 3
  • BigFix Client
  • VisualHub
  • WebKit
  • WireTap Pro
  • XML-RPC Client
  • Yojimbo
  • VLC
  • Handbrake

Comments

Submitted by Matt Parker (not verified) on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 8:38pm.

Hey Mark,

Nice list. I would add Perian, Flip4Mac, Echofon, Delibar, DropBox, an FTP client, an RSS reader (NetNewsWire, Gruml or a Google Reader Fluid app) and Apache Directory Studio. I don't even install the Novell Client any longer, the built-in Snow Leopard client works great.

Submitted by Darrin (not verified) on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 9:19am.

A lot of the same things I would add. But you already know we like the same software :) For me I would have to add, Accordance Bible Software, Transmit,ColorSchemer,Espresso,Fission,Screenflow,Phototshop, and lastpass

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