Essential Mac Software - 2008 Edition

It's been a year since I have written an article, on the Mac software I consider as essential for my daily work. A lot of new software has been released in the last year and I have changed some of my workflows, thus it's time for an update.

The following list presents a choice of my favorite MAC applications (in alphabetical order):

Plugins for Mail.app:

I don't longer use these applications, that were still on my list last year:

  • Carbon Emacs I have completely moved to TextMate. Although Emacs was my beloved editor for more than 10 years, I did never long back for Emacs. In particular I fell in love with my new LaTeX workflow based on TextMate and BibDesk.
  • Kinkless GTD obsoleted by OmniFocus
  • TeXniscope obsoleted by Skim
  • PdfView obsoleted by Skim
Written February 16th, 2008