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September 20, 2011

Must-Have Mac Apps: Federico Viticci’s Lists

MacStories’ Frederico Viticci updated the list of his must-have Mac apps. I don’t want to spoil your pleasure of comparing these lists against yours, but while going through them I wrote down some comments:

  • Clipmenu: I’ve never used a clipboard manager and I cannot imagine the scenarios to use one for. Any ideas?

  • OmniFocus: I’ve only used it for an extended trial period and it came close to my perfect task manager. The Hit List is showing a lot of potential, if only its developer would be more active.

  • Sparrow: I love this new email client, but hate its lack of scriptability. You cannot really integrate it with either OmniFocus or The Hit List and that made me go back to using a specialized bookmarklet.

  • Reeder: even if I had it installed on my iOS devices and my Mac since its launch, on my laptop I still go back to using Google Reader with Pure Reader as it gives me access to all Google Reader functionality.

  • Keyboard Maestro and Hazel: I briefly tried both of these apps. I have concluded that with some (advanced) AppleScript wizardry you can get exactly what these two applications give you.

  • If you are using Lion, you must try BetterTouchTool

  • I totally hate services that are available only to some countries.