Lifehacker has a nice post of software that there readers have bought this year and has turned into somewhat of a Meme with Marcus Vorwaller, Paul Stamatiou, Glenn Wolseyand, and Ronald Heft, Jr all jumping in too. Since this was my first year with a Mac, I thought it was a great idea to post mine. I think I bought more software for my Macbook this year than I’ve ever bought for the PC combined.
AppZapper - Great for cleaning up Apps and I mess around alot and with my small HD, every megabyte counts. Also nice for extending trials as I can just zap everything but the app and my trial resets.
ComicBookLover - Worth ever penny if you read comics in digital form. One of the reasons I started reading comics again.
Delicious Library - MacHeist bundle. Pretty much bought the MacHeist bundle for this alone. I can scan all my DVDs and Games into this to keep track then export right into GarageSale if I want to sell the stuff on eBay.
Disco - MacHeist bundle. I still prefer LiquidCD to this and dont get any of the eye candy due to the intergraged Intel graphics in my Macbook.
ecto - Best blogging software I’ve used. Bought this for both Mac and PC this year. Still waiting on 3.0 tho
endo - RSS reader from the ecto folks. Don’t really use it anymore due to Google Reader
Export Artwork - Purchased this to make my life easier when I was redoing my Music library. I now use CoverScout to load new album covers.
GarageSale - Great if you do any selling on eBay. Intergras with Delicious Library
iDefrag - Tho the Journaled Mac OS Extended Filesystem is pretty good at keeping stuff defragmented, this keeps everything performing good.
Netflix Freak - Help feed my netflix addiction
Newsfire - MacHeist bundle don’t use it due to using Google Reader
Parallels - Who doesn’t own this
RapidWeaver - MacHeist bundle. No use to me
Tangerine! - Great if you have the iPod+Nike Kit. Make playlists based on BPM.
TextMate - MacHeist bundle - Handy but not too useful for me
Transmit - Cannot live without this. best FTP program I’ve every used
Xslimmer - Awesome to help save any little space I can on my Macbook small HDD
Connect360 - Must have if you have a Xbox360
Shapeshifter - MacHeist bundle. Nice bonus currently using the iTunes 7 skin
Synergy - Bought it when it added support for Last.fm but moved back to iScrobbler
High Priority - Todo list in your Menu bar but I do not use anymore due to using Remember the Milk
FotoMagico - MacHeist bundle
iClip - MacHeist bundle
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