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| Maker | Name | Type | Purpose |
| Adobe | Acrobat | publishing | reads and creates pdf files (portable document format) but you can create pdf files from any application |
| Adobe | Acrobat Reader | display helper | displays pdf files |
| Apple | Address Book | organization | for addresses and phone numbers of people. Is also used by Mail. |
| Apple | AppleScript | programming | for making different applications work together on repetitive tasks. |
| Bare Bones | BBEdit | text editing | a powerful plain text editing tool. Not for beginners. |
| Apple | Calculator | calculations | desktop calculator, also has menu for currency conversion (rates updated through the internet) |
| Apple | DVD player | display helper | for looking at DVDs on the screen. Note that it is set to zone 2 and this can be changed only 5 times! |
| gnu | emacs | text editing | editor and more popular with Unix programmers. |
| Microsoft | Entourage | internet | e-mail etc. |
| Qualcomm | Eudora | internet | |
| Microsoft | Excel | spreadsheet | spreadsheet |
| Microsoft | Explorer | internet | web browser |
| FileMaker | FileMaker | data base | for all kinds of lists and data bases. Can show many different views on the same data. |
| Apple | Finder | System | displays your file system and allows you to create folders and move/copy files |
| Apple | Font Book | utility | used to organize your fonts into visible and invisible sets. |
| x | GhostView | display helper | display PostScript files, mainly as they come out of LaTeX or TeX |
| Adobe | Golive | web | web site design & upload (webDAV or ftp) |
| Apple | Grab | authoring | for capturing the screen or parts of it as an image. |
| Leighton Paul | HourWorld | interface | time organizer: shows time in different time zones |
| Apple | iCal | organization | agenda with sharing of agendas over the network (see also Now Up to Date) |
| Apple | iChat | internet | instant messaging with other iChat users. You need an AOL account for this. |
| Adobe | Illustrator | drawing/painting | vector graphic drawings: diagrams, lines, curves (not suited for photos) |
| x | Image Capture | authoring | picture capture and import |
| Adobe | ImageReady | publishing | treatment of images before publishing on the web |
| Apple | iMovie | audio/video | digital movie editing tool |
| Adobe | Indesign | publishing | page layout, mainly for printing |
| Apple | Internet Connect | internet | for connecting over your modem; not needed for Ethernet |
| Apple | iPhoto | personal | organizes your digital photos |
| Apple | iTunes | personal | digital music organizing tool; also converts to mp3, plays CDs and internet radio |
| Apple | Keychain access | interface | organizes your user/password pairs and uses them automatically in certain circumstances. |
| x | LaTeX | text editing | for maths and physics |
| Apple | internet | e-mail tool | |
| Mozilla | Mozilla Firebird | internet | web browser |
| Apple | Netinfo manager | utility | organizes the base level of the operating system. DO NOT use this! |
| AOL | Netscape | internet | web browser |
| Power On | Now Up to Date | organization | agenda with sharing of agendas over the network (see also iCal) |
| CAERE | OmniPage | audio/video/scanning | Optical Character Recognition for scanned text documents. |
| Opera | Opera | internet | web browser |
| Adobe | PhotoShop | drawing/painting | pixel graphics: photos (not suited for diagrams) |
| x | PopChar | interface | shows character palette, useful for inserting special characters. Sits in a corner of the menu bar |
| Microsoft | PowerPoint | presentation | for making "slide shows". Limited to one level. |
| Apple | Preview | display helper | used by the Finder to display document types that have no obvious creator. Also used for pdf files, but you should use Acrobat instead. |
| Apple | Printer setup utility | utility | for making the list of your preferred printers, seeing the queues of printing documents, etc. |
| Apple | QuickTime | display helper | displays movies, streaming video, photos, panoramas, ... |
| Apple | Remote Desktop | utility | for looking at the screen of other Macs through the network. Useful in collaborations. See also Timbuktu |
| Apple | Safari | internet | web browser |
| Apple | Stickies | organization | Yellow stickies. A "disorganization" tool... |
| Apple | System Preferences | utility | for adapting the system's behaviour to your personal preferences. |
| Apple | System Profiler | utility | tells you all about your Mac: installed hardware, characteristics of the machine, ... |
| x | TeX | text editing | typesetting system |
| Apple | Terminal | interface | for accessing the full power of Unix. |
| Trans-Tex | Tex-Edit Plus | text editing | plain text editor |
| Netopia | Timbuktu | utility | for looking at screens of other machines (including Windows) across the network. (see also Remote Desktop) |
| x | TinkerTool | interface | allows changing OS X interface settings that System Preferences hides from you |
| Roxio | Toast | utility | for burning CDs and DVDs |
| Microsoft | Virtual PC | system | emulates an Intel Pentium processor, on top of which you can install Windows so you can look at documents for which there is no Mac application. |
| Wacom | Wacom Tablet | peripheral | for tuning a Wacom graphics tablet |
| Microsoft | Windows Media Player | display helper | for displaying content in Windows proprietary formats |
| Microsoft | Word | text processing | word processor with some style capabilities. |
| Apple | X11 | internet | X11 server for looking at other computers through OSX windows using the X protocol. |