The Ever-Growing Free Mac OS X Software List

preview · 08-22-2011, 02:06 PM

What are you looking for in an editor? Something almost IDE-like to program in or something lean and mean just for text? How 'Mac-like' do you want it to be?

My own personal weapon of choice is TextMate ($60), which is a wonderful editor despite being all but abandoned by its creator. It handles both a multitude of languages and regular text and can be extended in all directions using something called bundles.

If you're only looking for free and opensource then MacVIM is a pretty good starting point. It has a steep learning curve, but once you've wrapped your mind around its ways of doing things, it's very powerful.

Both can enable or disable soft wrapping.

NesteaZen · 08-23-2011, 08:36 PM

No, a text editor. I was looking for something like Notepad++.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will give macvim a try.

Maziar · 09-06-2011, 04:57 AM

Great post Joker,rep added

I recently got my first-ever mac and I needed a list like this.

AppleUsr · 10-05-2011, 11:26 AM

Caffeine is a great free app. it keeps your computer from sleeping and other things. necessary when your burning or ripping a disk since the machine will still sleep for some reason and screw up the process.

also

clipmenu which is a clipboard history tool. its just a click away and sits in your menubar. it even organizes and keeps track of pictures. its been really helpful and I wouldnt do without it now.

cornrooster · 10-05-2011, 08:43 PM

Awesome, Thanks for this!

paradigm · 10-10-2011, 09:59 AM

anything in Mac's that might help a noob add networked drives to the desltop and automount them on startup....WITHOUT automatically opening up each and every drive on startup

mfh123 · 11-22-2011, 11:54 AM

Subler for converting MKV's to m4v Much faster than Handbrake

Any_Video_Converter for converting avi to MP4

paradigm · 02-06-2012, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by paradigm

anything in Mac's that might help a noob add networked drives to the desltop and automount them on startup....WITHOUT automatically opening up each and every drive on startup

anybody....please iam on 10.7.3

Bob Hobman · 02-26-2012, 08:34 PM

I have a trusty iBook G4 (OS10.5.8) and a longtime Me.com account which I look like losing when everything changes to iCloud since I seem to be prevented from joining up because the most ancient OS that can be upgraded from (to accept iCloud) is Lion (10.7.2). Do you have any idea how I can resolve this without buying a new Mac with an Intel chip? Thanks.....

masterchef341 · 02-26-2012, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob Hobman

I have a trusty iBook G4 (OS10.5.8) and a longtime Me.com account which I look like losing when everything changes to iCloud since I seem to be prevented from joining up because the most ancient OS that can be upgraded from (to accept iCloud) is Lion (10.7.2). Do you have any idea how I can resolve this without buying a new Mac with an Intel chip? Thanks.....

Lion requires an intel mac. You're out of luck. Sorry!