re-installing Mac OS X: software I use
Friday, 24 April 2009
I recently wiped my Mac laptop to upgrade to 10.5. (Finally! At least I installed Leopard before Snow Leopard comes out.) This post is mainly for me to list all the stuff I install -- a list I generated when scouring my machine before wiping it.
~/bin/
wget
p4
darwin ports (/opt/local)
ActivePython (all versions)
ActivePerl (/usr/local/ActivePerl-*...)
MySQL (/usr/local/mysql)
XCode (from Leopard CD, dunno if need more recent one)
Growl
/Applications
Skype
Google Notifier
Caffeine
Firefox
Adium
Colloquy
Transmission
PDK
Komodo
Pixelmator.app
Snapz Pro X
Thunderbird
TweetDeck^H Twitterific
UnRarX
VLC
ffmpegX
iTerm
iTunes
iPhoto
ImageMixer 3 for Panasonic (for getting video off my video camera)
CanoScan Toolbox X (for my Canon LiDE 25 scanner, http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0028265.asp, driver: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=DownloadDetailTabAct&fcategoryid=351&modelid=11463)
Subversion (Leopard has 1.4.4, want 1.6?)
Mercurial
Git [TODO]
System Preferences:
Growl
MySQL
SlimServer (now called SqueezeCenter) [TODO]
Perian (http://perian.org/, teaches QuickTime about more formats, TODO)