Mac Apps 2011

Having upgraded my Macbook Air the day OS X Lion came out, I settled down a last night to upgrade my main machine – my 2010 MacBookPro.

Plenty of people have already posted best practices for upgrading to Lion, so I won’t do bore you with a detailed explanation of backing up with TimeMachine and Superduper.

What I did find fun, was making a list of those Apps that I use on a daily basis and will need to install before I can be productive. Hopefully you’ll find some gems listed below that’ll help you in your day-to-day Mac workflow.

Productivity

• Notational Velocity (I use Brett Turpstra’s nvAlt 2.0 fork)

• OmniFocus

• OmniOutliner

• Google Chrome Beta-Channel

• Firefox Stable Channel (for Firebug)

• Pomodoro Timer

• iWork 09 (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote)

• TextExpander

• Hazel

Development

• XCode 4.1

• SublimeText 2.0 (Beta)

• Aptana Studio

• Textmate (somewhat out of date, by still a favorite)

• Sequel Pro (The best MySQL GUI)

• Navicat Postgres and PgAdmin 3 (depending on my mood)

• Versions (for Subversion)

• Expandrive

Design and Photography

• Photoshop CS5

• Lightroom 3

• iLife  (iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand)

• VLC

Social

• Twitter (previously called Tweetie)

• Textual (for IRC)

• Skype

• NetNewsWire

• CloudApp

Gaming

• World of Warcraft

• Steam

Unix Nerdary

• VirtualBox

• Homebrew

• Django

• Werkzeug

• PostgreSQL