| Maker |
Name |
Type |
Purpose |
| Apple |
iMovie |
audio/video/scanning |
digital movie editing tool |
| CAERE |
OmniPage |
audio/video/scanning |
Optical Character Recognition for scanned text documents. |
| Apple |
Grab |
authoring |
for capturing the screen or parts of it as an image. |
| x |
Image Capture |
authoring |
picture capture and import |
| Apple |
Calculator |
calculations |
desktop calculator, also has menu for currency conversion (rates updated through the internet) |
| FileMaker |
FileMaker |
data base |
for all kinds of lists and data bases. Can show many different views on the same data. |
| Adobe |
Acrobat Reader |
display helper |
displays pdf files |
| 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! |
| x |
GhostView |
display helper |
display PostScript files, mainly as they come out of LaTeX or TeX |
| 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 |
QuickTime |
display helper |
displays movies, streaming video, photos, panoramas, ... |
| Microsoft |
Windows Media Player |
display helper |
for displaying content in Windows proprietary formats |
| Adobe |
Illustrator |
drawing/painting |
vector graphic drawings: diagrams, lines, curves (not suited for photos) |
| Adobe |
PhotoShop |
drawing/painting |
pixel graphics: photos (not suited for diagrams) |
| Leighton Paul |
HourWorld |
interface |
time organizer: shows time in different time zones |
| Apple |
Keychain access |
interface |
organizes your user/password pairs and uses them automatically in certain circumstances. |
| x |
PopChar |
interface |
shows character palette, useful for inserting special characters. Sits in a corner of the menu bar |
| Apple |
Terminal |
interface |
for accessing the full power of Unix. |
| x |
TinkerTool |
interface |
allows changing OS X interface settings that System Preferences hides from you |
| Microsoft |
Entourage |
internet |
e-mail etc. |
| Qualcomm |
Eudora |
internet |
e-mail |
| Microsoft |
Explorer |
internet |
web browser |
| Apple |
iChat |
internet |
instant messaging with other iChat users. You need an AOL account for this. |
| Apple |
Internet Connect |
internet |
for connecting over your modem; not needed for Ethernet |
| Apple |
Mail |
internet |
e-mail tool |
| Mozilla |
Mozilla Firebird |
internet |
web browser |
| AOL |
Netscape |
internet |
web browser |
| Opera |
Opera |
internet |
web browser |
| Apple |
Safari |
internet |
web browser |
| Apple |
X11 |
internet |
X11 server for looking at other computers through OSX windows using the X protocol. |
| Apple |
Address Book |
organization |
for addresses and phone numbers of people. Is also used by Mail. |
| Apple |
iCal |
organization |
agenda with sharing of agendas over the network (see also Now Up to Date) |
| Power On |
Now Up to Date |
organization |
agenda with sharing of agendas over the network (see also iCal) |
| Apple |
Stickies |
organization |
Yellow stickies. A "disorganization" tool... |
| Wacom |
Wacom Tablet |
peripheral |
for tuning a Wacom graphics tablet |
| Apple |
iPhoto |
personal |
organizes your digital photos |
| Apple |
iTunes |
personal |
digital music organizing tool; also converts to mp3, plays CDs and internet radio |
| Microsoft |
PowerPoint |
presentation |
for making "slide shows". Limited to one level. |
| Apple |
AppleScript |
programming |
for making different applications work together on repetitive tasks. |
| Adobe |
Acrobat |
publishing |
creates pdf files (portable document format) |
| Adobe |
ImageReady |
publishing |
treatment of images before publishing on the web |
| Adobe |
Indesign |
publishing |
page layout, mainly for printing |
| Microsoft |
Excel |
spreadsheet |
spreadsheet |
| Apple |
Finder |
system |
displays your file system and allows you to create folders and move/copy files |
| 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. |
| Bare Bones |
BBEdit |
text editing |
a powerful plain text editing tool. Not for beginners. |
| gnu |
emacs |
text editing |
editor and more popular with Unix programmers. |
| x |
LaTeX |
text editing |
for maths and physics |
| x |
TeX |
text editing |
typesetting system |
| Trans-Tex |
Tex-Edit Plus |
text editing |
plain text editor |
| Microsoft |
Word |
text processing |
word processor with some style capabilities. |
| Apple |
Font Book |
utility |
used to organize your fonts into visible and invisible sets. |
| Apple |
Netinfo manager |
utility |
organizes the base level of the operating system. DO NOT use this! |
| Apple |
Printer setup utility |
utility |
for making the list of your preferred printers, seeing the queues of printing documents, etc. |
| Apple |
Remote Desktop |
utility |
for looking at the screen of other Macs through the network. Useful in collaborations. See also Timbuktu |
| 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, ... |
| Netopia |
Timbuktu |
utility |
for looking at screens of other machines (including Windows) across the network. (see also Remote Desktop) |
| Roxio |
Toast |
utility |
for burning CDs and DVDs |
| Adobe |
Golive |
web |
web site design & upload (webDAV or ftp) |
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