I've put together a list of apps that I tend to use. The ecology of apple apps is so rich at this point. In any case, here they are:
Password Management
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- Excellent password manager
Menu Bar
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- Application launcher and more
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- Quickly adjusts the display size
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- Limits the traffic apps seem to think they have the privilege of using
Sound, Music, and Broadcasting
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- Useful for broadcasting music from Cubase
AudioTunes (no longer made)
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- really useful for making quick changes of audio format
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- magically makes music sound better
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- Useful for reverse engineering music
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- my standby Digital Audio Workstation
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- Useful for broadcasting live performances
- about to be discontinued and taken over by Wirecast.
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- Very useful for routing music from one app to another
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- Standby screencasting. This with Keynote were the main apps for Being Productive
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- Simple menu bar app to direct sounds to different places
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- Super cool app for learning the useful workings of a synthesizer
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- Powerful, free media player
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- Another very useful media player
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- Sound wave editor. Great for anatomically dissecting sound
File Management
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- Quickly rename a bunch of stuff
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- Quickly separate or merge files in folders
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- I have an external hard drive regularly copied to another drive as backup
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- Has been my a solid online backup service for years.
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- Useful for siloing different parts of my work and life. Deserves more than a couple of sentences of explanations.
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- A reliable cloud service for files
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- I’ll use this to send files from one computer to another via a Dropbox folder and a Hazel script
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- Tells me how much space I have left on my hard drive
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- Great for finding duplicate files and removing them
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- An excellent file manager. Set some rules and Hazel keeps my files tidy. See my post on using Hazel to sort.
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- Keeps my OmniOutliner files synced
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- Another approach to Finder files. I like its preview set up.
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- Excellent visualizer for space used in my disk drives
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- Another one of those apps that I don’t use often, but when I need it, it is excellent for what it does.
Productivity
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- Hides or shows my menu bar items
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- My favorite calendar app - I particularly love the 2-week view
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- My favorite timer. I love the nagging feature.
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- I don’t really use it anymore, but it was useful to block websites
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- window size and placement management
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- my task manager of choice
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- great for designing concepts and spaces
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- an outliner that works well as a project house
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- copy and paste management
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- an app that can link to a number of files and documents
Figures, Billing
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- my financial tracking program of choice
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- a neat text-based program for quick doing calculations
Interfaces
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- great for managing multiple Gmail accounts
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- watch my movies on other devices
Writing, Drafting, and Text Editors
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- for when I’m doing rudimentary php coding, trying to break my websites
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- a text editor to focus on individual sections
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- great for helping me improvinate my sentences
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- A solid word processor and text designer
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- the workhorse of all text programs. This is what I write books with
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- a nice all around text manager
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- a free research assistant app
PDF Management
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- an unsung hero of default PDF tools
Images
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- great for managing and marking up screenshots
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- for when I need a screenshot to continue floating above other windows