My Favorite Mac Desktop Apps

1313 days ago in Useful Links by Brent | 3 Comments

This post has been a long time in the making. As many of you know, I love my Mac and all the apps I use on it are just as amazing. Since I am in the creative field, I didn’t want to focus on the typical apps that I figured were a given (i.e. Adobe products), but focus on some of the great simple apps for the Mac desktop that I use every day. This is just the ones that I thought of off the top of my head. There are plenty more but at 10, this podcast was long enough! Don’t you love how I say the number 5 twice? haha, what a dork! ok, Here’s the list:

NOTE: I have been informed that GrabUp isn’t playing too nice with Snow Leopard so honorable mention goes to TinyGrab for nearly the same simple functions as GrabUp.

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  • Shawn

    Without coming across this I wouldn't have known about dropbox so thank you. Perhaps I'm an idiot, but where is the code for extra storage for dropbox?

  • http://iboughtamac.com brentspore

    Sorry about that. It's actually coded to the Dropbox link in the post. It's a bit.ly link: http://bit.ly/dropboxrox

    Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for watching :)

  • http://virusremovalhelps.com/help-system-fix-virus-removal/ remove system fix virus

    They are really good apps!

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