10 Missing Mac OS X Applications

You can get Gtalk working with ichat and jabber.

as bobby points out ichat works great with google talk. i use it nearly everyday with audio and video chats. text works fine as well. why would you want another client?

I like your list of wanted apps but I disagree that some are missing for Mac. Have a look below.

eWallet - There is an App called Wallet for OS X http://www.waterfallsw.com/wallet/ that I use and it works great for storing any sensitive into. Also OS X has a password keychain build into the OS that can be mannaged from Utilities/Keychain Access

ThumbsPlus - There is an App called iView Media that can do the same thing. It can view anything you can throw at it.

Picasa - I am with you a little bit on this one because I use a Windows PC sometimes and I have Picasa. It’s really nice and sometimes it feels faster and than iPhoto. I like iPhoto but I like the way Google does things better. I guess it’s the same as the Google Talk things vs. iChat. Apple needs to take a few tips form Google.

I hope this is helpful.

Seth

Some of your “missing apps” just show your newbie status…

Graphic converter by Lemkesoft is THE killer graphic ap for basic hard work. I wish there were an equivalent on the PC.

Try Adium for chat and cross all boundaries.

an idisk will aid in synching and then some.

Why would you want piccassa when you’ve got iphoto. No comparison!

There are turbo lister type softwares available. Since I don’t do bulk ebay though, I can’t say which to look at.

And when are you going to buy apple TV? Alchemy DVR and an Apple TV will make you wish you’d never spent money on Tivo.

As for the UltraVNC problem, just change VNC Server applications…UltraVNC is quite deprecated as well. I use TightVNC on all my machines and the machines i maintain at work and i couldn’t be happier with it.

No sorry, as I stated in my post Adium just isn’t the same. Especially for voice. But, I do use it.

Picasa is compeltely different from iPhoto and while iPhoto certainly does have a few things Picasa doesn’t, Picasa has some features iPhoto lacks.

iDisk has a 1GB limit and it doesn’t continously sync like FolderShare can.

I have an AppleTV but I wouldn’t give up my TiVos.

As for the syncing, I was checking out services like Egnyte. That might do the trick.
I don’t work for them.

As far as eBay Turbo Lister goes, GarageSale  http://www.iwascoding.com/GarageSale/) outperforms it at least tenfold. It’s easily the best and most feature rich eBay listing app there is - PC or Mac. Not free, but for $30, you can’t beat it. Give it a look-see!

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Winamp?

Re IM. How’s the voice and video interop? iChat working with Gtalk voice was news to me. But then I use Skype all the time.

I’m also a user of Thumbsplus on Windows and I recently got myself a MacBook Pro. I am also looking for a graphics manager like Thumbsplus on OS X. I have tried (still trying) GraphicConvert and iPhoto together with IPhoto Library Manager but they are not really similar in behaviour. The nice thing of Thumbsplus is that you can have multiple databases for different collections of graphics. You can have the database files anywhere you want, as many as you want and there is no real limit to the size. Then you can throw an entire directory tree at it and it will recursively scan all the directories and create thumbnails. Neither GraphicConvert nor iPhoto can do this. How about the product called iView Media? Can this do the things I just mentioned?

I just checked Iview Media Pro. Now there’s only a pro version and it’s quite expensive. Any alternatives?

I use Keychain to store encrypted passwords and notes, it’s only Firefox that I wish used this functionality as Safari does.

For images I use iPhoto, but for viewing ala. ACDSee, IrfanView etc, I use Xee on Mac. Try it out! (The same guy has supremely slick other applications as well… take a look!)

Yea, there is no way I can use voice to any windows gtalk users… iChat only supports voice and video to other iChat people… pity.

I’m currently using Foldershare on my MBP Intel. It seems to look like it’s working but my system has started to become flaky and rebooting from time to time. Is this what you mean by Foldershare not working on OS X Intel machines?

FolderShare encryption doesn’t work and it’s not a Universal build. It must run in compability mode as it was written for the PowerPC. This can create some instability.

Google Talk now works in the latest Safari 3.0 browser!