Mac OS X Essentials


A friend just bought one of the new 12″ PowerBooks and since this is his first mac, I wanted to send him a list of some applications that I use all the time.

Here is the list:

Quicksilver

Application launcher

VLC

Video player.

MPlayer

Another videp player

Httpmail-plugin

Download your Hotmail email to Mail.app

Skype

Talk with your friends (supports multiple OSs)

Microsoft Messenger

Microsoft Remote Desktop Client

Connect to PCs running Windows XP.

TextWrangler

Text Editor