Comments on: The Best FREE Mac Apps & Utilities http://audiogeekzine.com/2009/07/the-best-free-mac-apps-utilities/ Pro Audio news, nonsense and occasional debauchery Tue, 15 May 2012 23:52:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: CAMBAM http://audiogeekzine.com/2009/07/the-best-free-mac-apps-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-2250 CAMBAM Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:06:36 +0000 http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=1209#comment-2250 Alfred is amazing, check it out. It's like finder but you can limit what folders it searches (like just searching the applications folder or documents folder). It also searches the internet if it can't find what you are looking for. Alfred is amazing, check it out. It’s like finder but you can limit what folders it searches (like just searching the applications folder or documents folder). It also searches the internet if it can’t find what you are looking for.

]]> By: Dan http://audiogeekzine.com/2009/07/the-best-free-mac-apps-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-545 Dan Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:26:38 +0000 http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=1209#comment-545 www.videolan.org/vlc/ One of my favorite media players on both mac an pc is VLC, it handles pretty much every format, simple, lightweight and fast. http://sbooth.org/Max/ http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html For audio conversion I use Max and XLD, they're both very quick, know a lot of formats I really recommend them. I prefer Max though because I found XLD occasionally unstable when ripping from discs. http://perian.org/ Perian is a great utility that widely extends quicktime's native support for a lot of video formats. http://www.disktracker.com/ DiskTracker is a great disc cataloging application with lots of useful features. If you have a lot of discs like me, like hundreds or more it comes very handy. It's not fully freeware, if you don't buy it you have to wait about 30 secs each time you open it. It's not that bad. http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html Little Snitch is a great tool that is constantly monitoring all outgoing network connections of applications according to your preferences. For extracting .rar archives I'm using UnRarX. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/28158 Backup Disabler is a nice tiny tool if you have and iPhone, iPod Touch or iPod. When you're updating your device's system with iTunes, as default it backs everything up beforehand which can take hours for some silly reason. You could only disable it in terminal but they made an app that does the same thing but you only push a button. MPEG Streamclip is a nice video converter though I prefer VisualHub but VisualHub is not free. Agree with dyLAB, I just wanted to suggest spotlight with that shortcut (mostly because I tend to or at least try to use the keyboard only). Great post! Thank You! I'm checking out those I haven't known. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
One of my favorite media players on both mac an pc is VLC, it handles pretty much every format, simple, lightweight and fast.

http://sbooth.org/Max/
http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html
For audio conversion I use Max and XLD, they’re both very quick, know a lot of formats I really recommend them. I prefer Max though because I found XLD occasionally unstable when ripping from discs.

http://perian.org/
Perian is a great utility that widely extends quicktime’s native support for a lot of video formats.

http://www.disktracker.com/
DiskTracker is a great disc cataloging application with lots of useful features. If you have a lot of discs like me, like hundreds or more it comes very handy. It’s not fully freeware, if you don’t buy it you have to wait about 30 secs each time you open it. It’s not that bad.

http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Little Snitch is a great tool that is constantly monitoring all outgoing network connections of applications according to your preferences.

For extracting .rar archives I’m using UnRarX.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/28158
Backup Disabler is a nice tiny tool if you have and iPhone, iPod Touch or iPod. When you’re updating your device’s system with iTunes, as default it backs everything up beforehand which can take hours for some silly reason. You could only disable it in terminal but they made an app that does the same thing but you only push a button.

MPEG Streamclip is a nice video converter though I prefer VisualHub but VisualHub is not free.

Agree with dyLAB, I just wanted to suggest spotlight with that shortcut (mostly because I tend to or at least try to use the keyboard only).

Great post! Thank You! I’m checking out those I haven’t known.

]]> By: dyLAB http://audiogeekzine.com/2009/07/the-best-free-mac-apps-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-544 dyLAB Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:03:13 +0000 http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=1209#comment-544 No need for any icons in the dock Apple + Space bar Spotlight is great app launcher No need for any icons in the dock Apple + Space bar
Spotlight is great app launcher

]]> By: Tony Wallace http://audiogeekzine.com/2009/07/the-best-free-mac-apps-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-543 Tony Wallace Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:18:46 +0000 http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=1209#comment-543 Logic users should be aware that, if you use Yasu to clean your system caches, you will have to revalidate your Audio Unit plugins. However, this isn't really a big deal if you remember to launch Logic and revalidate before your next session. Logic users should be aware that, if you use Yasu to clean your system caches, you will have to revalidate your Audio Unit plugins. However, this isn’t really a big deal if you remember to launch Logic and revalidate before your next session.

]]> By: kj http://audiogeekzine.com/2009/07/the-best-free-mac-apps-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-542 kj Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:01:47 +0000 http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=1209#comment-542 plus one for swtich. love it! plus one for swtich. love it!

]]> By: Jon http://audiogeekzine.com/2009/07/the-best-free-mac-apps-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-541 Jon Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:59:35 +0000 http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=1209#comment-541 Thanks Anthony! Those look tasty :) Thanks Anthony! Those look tasty :)

]]> By: Anthony http://audiogeekzine.com/2009/07/the-best-free-mac-apps-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-540 Anthony Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:05:19 +0000 http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=1209#comment-540 Switch is another good one! It's a super lightweight audio file converter. I use it all the time instead of iTunes for converting to/from mp3. Also saves having to pay for the digi mp3 exporter option :) Also check out Filelist (for 10.4) or NameMangler (for 10.5) Great batch file renaming utility! Works much better than the auto rename function in the pro tools region bin. Switch is another good one! It’s a super lightweight audio file converter. I use it all the time instead of iTunes for converting to/from mp3. Also saves having to pay for the digi mp3 exporter option :)

Also check out Filelist (for 10.4) or NameMangler (for 10.5) Great batch file renaming utility! Works much better than the auto rename function in the pro tools region bin.

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