My Dock
As an effort to help acclimate two of my buddies to the Apple world, I am sharing the contents of my dock. This idea was inspired by a writeup over at macdevcenter.com. Reading left to right.
Finder - Obviously this isn't really an application but I figured I'd mention it.
iTerm - A better terminal application. Allows tabbed terminals.
Console - Standard OS X application. It is used to view log files located in /var/log
JEdit - a full featured editor written in Java. Plugin API available for extending it's already capable feature set.
CheckBook - An alternative to Quicken. I prefer it's simple interface.
Apple Mail - Standard OS X application. Full featured email client.
iChat - Standard OS X application. Fantastic instant message client. Works with AIM or .mac account.
Adium - multiple protocol instant message client that I use for yahoo and msn messenger accounts.
Firefox - only the greatest browser around.
NetNewsWire - Flagship RSS reader. Perfect product to make your PC user friends jealous.
Safari - Standard OS X browser application.
Sherlock - Standard OS X application. Nifty application that display's dynamic content authored by the channel provider. Have a look, it's worth it.
Address Book - Standard OS X address book application.
iCal - Standard OS X calendar application. Publish/Subscribe to WebDAV repositories.
iPhoto - Standard OS X digital photo organizer.
iTunes - Standard OS X digital jukebox that frontends the iTunes Music Store.
iMovie - Standard OS X movie editor. Simple but powerful for home movies.
iDVD - Standard OS X DVD Creation software.
Activity Monitor - Standard OS X System Resource Monitor.
SubEthaEdit - Rendezvous enabled collaborative text editing. Simply one of a kind.
IntelliJ IDEA - Plugin based Java IDE by the folks over at JetBrains.
Eclipe - Open Source Plugin based Java IDE.
Grab - Standard OS X screen capture utility.
Honorable Mention Applications that are not on my dock but worth a look.
MacStumbler - Wardriving application for OS X.
BBedit - Legendary HTML/Text Editor for the Mac.
CocoaMySQL - MySQL GUI client used for writing queries or backing up databases.
Desktop Manager - Simple and powerful desktop manager. Multiple desktop's at your fingertips.
FetchArt - Applescript utility that pulls album art into iTunes.