My favourite Mac apps

F.lux
Simple little app that makes your screen easier on the eyes. Might seem a bit shite but use it for an hour or so and turn it off again and I bet you the brightness of the screen will kick you in the face.

Caffeine
A little tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back.

Simples *does meerkat noise*

Very handy for watching ‘movies’ online.

smcFanControl
Lets you set the minimum speed of the built-in fans. You can increase your minimum fan speed to make your Macbook run cooler.

Very handy for me since mines get hotter than the sun sometimes.

Tweetie
This presents a beautiful compact window for reading tweets, replies and, direct messages. Tweets are displayed in an iChat-like interface, regardless of whether you are viewing your friends’ timeline or a reply chain. The program has support for most operations, like creating a new tweet or switching between timelines.

Adium
Think of this as a more powerful version of iChat where everything is customizable and you can sign into pretty much any IM service. The only downside is it doesn’t have audio or video chat, but other than that it has pretty much every feature you could think of.

CandyBar
Trick out your Trashcan. Decorate your Drives. Mix up Mail. CandyBar lets you change the Mac OS X icons you usually can’t.

Like so: Clicky

Spotify
Excellent music app, available collection growing by thousands of tracks a week.
Listen to streaming music in good quality from your Mac. Also “scrobbles” your music to Last.fm if you link it with your last.fm profile. I use the free version which its only downside is that theres an advertisment every 6 songs or so, a small niggle but nothing too major

MacSaber
For the Jedi that lives within us all! Download MacSaber and turn your MacBook into a hybrid Apple / Jedi Light Saber. Just mind that you don’t fling your Mac into a wall like a did.

LiquidMac
This little application is the definition of a time waster; it performs no real useful function, and yet I can’t stop playing with it. It’s not a game, there is no goal and no score, but it sure is fun to play with.