What's on your clean machine?

Jul 20 2007

I’m configuring a new PowerBook for work (and a bit of personal use)—so far my download routine has been:

What are your first stops when faced with a clean install?

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José Carlos
350 days ago

- Quicksilver – Monolingual – Cocoa MySQL – Color Schemer Studio – Coda – Marco Polo – Phone Agent

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Richard
349 days ago

- Opera, – Netscape, – Music. Really need this to work! – Firefox, – TimeTrek (www.plaino.com/timetrek/), – Filezilla, for quick FTP access.

#2
Andrew Walkingshaw
349 days ago

Macports, subversion, Aquamacs, X11, Inkscape, GIMP, Python 2.5, sqlite3, libxml2/lxml, Django, Firefox (pretty much).

#3
Jason Beaird
349 days ago

Since you listed 10…

  1. Adobe CS3
  2. Textmate
  3. Transmit
  4. Firefox
  5. AdiumX
  6. Twitterific
  7. Quicksilver
  8. Reader Notifier
  9. Remote Desktop
  10. Last.fm
#4
blake
349 days ago

Others not mentioned: Adium, Adobe CS3, BBEdit, CSSEdit, Flip4Mac, LinoType Font Explorer, iGTD, Transmit, MenuCalendarClock, and iBiz

#5
Gareth Rushgrove
349 days ago

lots of command line goodness via macports; SVN, Vim, Ruby, Python, etc.

Oh, plus Textmate (editing), Last.fm and AirFoil (music), Skype (er, skype)Adium (IM), Colloquy (IRC), Skim (PDF) and Writeroom (writing).

#6
Matthew Pennell
349 days ago

I suppose I should add that I would have certainly installed Photoshop and CSSEdit if there had been any spare licenses, but this machine is mostly for coding rather than design. I might install the GIMP, I guess, although I’ve never figured out how to use it.

@blake: I’ve given up on IM clients when out-and-about with a laptop; I just use Meebo now.

@Gareth: Meh, command line. I am an artiste! ;)

#7
chuck
347 days ago

Don’t forget Google Notifier, Parallels and OmniGraffle.

#8
Jon-Michael
346 days ago

I just did a clean OS X install a couple weeks ago – in order of installation:

# Quicksilver

# TextMate with XSLT, XML, and JSLint bundles

# PHP5, MySQL, SVN – manual installs

# Safari add-ons: Inquisitor, Tidy

# Cyberduck

# Firefox and Firebug

# Opera

# Timeous – time tracking

# TexShop – how can a developer not like LaTeX?

# MS Office – for Excel

# Vienna

# Adobe CS3 (design std)

#9
Nathan Smith
335 days ago

Just one more to add: Camino.

#10