Favorite Software

Here are (currently) my favorite software applications.

open source — MacOS

• MacFusion: allows you to mount network drives (including ssh). Great software!
• NeoOffice: it is sluggish, but it is the best ODF office suite on MacOS. I think.
• Smultron: best text editor.
• Fink: pretty good package system containing many several good applications such as tetex and gnuplot.
• Skim: excellent PDF viewer.
• Camino: decent browser.
• Seashore: excellent graphics editor (bitmaps).
• Cyberduck: good sftp client.

open source — cross-platform

• Firefox: one of the best browsers ever made?
• MonkeyGTD: a really clever task-managed tool (GTD compliant)
• Style check: a must if you use LaTeX
• lacheck: another useful LaTeX checker
• Eclipse: decent IDE.
• WebSec: excellent web page monitoring application, for those time when a RSS feed is not available.

free (as in free beer) — MacOS

• PDF to Keynote: can convert any PDF file to keynote format (useful to few people, but very useful to those who need this!)
• Google Notifier: useful desktop tool to monitor Google Mail and Google Calendar.
• Jing: great screen capture to create flash tutorials and presentations.

free (as in free beer) — cross-platform

• Opera: an excellent browser, useful to test your web sites with.
• Skype: best teleconference tool.
• Google Mail: best email client, period.
• Google Calendar: pretty good standard-compliant calendar tool.
• Google Document: pretty good online word processor and spreadsheet software.

commercial — MacOS

• OmniGraffle: best sketching tool.
• Toast 8 Titanium: burn your DVDs without trouble.