Software on my Mac

This is a list of the software that I use on my Mac, and have installed by myself, that is it wasn’t something that came with Mac.

The list is primarily for me, so that I can remember what to install when I get a new machine. But it also serve as a list of recommendations. Thus, if you think I need something on the list add a comment or send me a mail.

XCode

Find your copy on the DVD that came with your Mac, or download from Apple. A machine without a C compiler is a sad machine. I don’t care much about the GUI parts of XCode, but the trusted command line tools are needed for Macports.

Macports

• First thing to install (morally) is macports. Download it from: http://www.macports.org/install.php

• Your first port to install should be bash-completion:

  $ sudo port install bash-completion

  Then you need to configure bash-completion

  • Add the following to your .profile (found in your home directory)

      # bash-completion
    
      if [ -f /opt/local/etc/bash_completion ]; then
    
         . /opt/local/etc/bash_completion
    
      fi

  • And to make sure to install bash completions for future packages installed via macports add the following line to the file /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf:

      + bash_completion

  See http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/bash-completion for the full story.

• I have (at least) the following ports (variants indicated with plus) installed:

     git-core +svn
  
     mercurial
  
     emacs-app
  
     ocaml
  
     erlang
  
     gimp2 +quartz +no_x11
  
     inkscape +quartz +no_x11

  Warning gimp2 and inkscape ports will pull in an awfull lot of dependencies.

Firefox

Available from http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

And I’m using the following add-ons:

• Sync (formally known as Weave)

• Greasemonkey (direct [addon

link](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748/)

• After the Deadline – Spell and Grammar Checker

Thunderbird

Available from http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-GB/thunderbird/

Dropbox

Available from http://dropbox.com

Let me know if you want an extra 250MB when you sign up for the free 2GB account, then I’ll send you an invitation. Or just use this referal link.

Adium

Available from http://adium.im/

And I’m using the following from Adium Xtras:

• Color Adiumy Menubar Reborn

• Skype

Skype

Available from http://www.skype.com/

iStat menus

Available from http://bjango.com/apps/istatmenus/

FileZilla

Available from http://filezilla-project.org/

Transmission (BitTorrent Client)

Available from http://www.transmissionbt.com

Haskell platform

Available from http://hackage.haskell.org/platform

Eclipse

Available from http://eclipse.org. I got the Eclipse Classic download for Mac Cocoa 64bit.

Calibra

I use Calibra to manage my e-books. It is better than the program provided by Sony.