If you were stranded on a tropical island which 5 apps could you not live without.
Mine would have to be:
- Camino - I prefer it to Safri and it can handle all my feed reading and mail for me
- Quicksilver - How did people survive before it?
- Textmate - For all text editing
- Omnigraffle - Such a versatile app it can do anything
- iTunes

13 Comments
chris
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
- Firefox + Greasemonkey. I have 5 billion Greasemonkey scripts to automate most of my browsing and stuff
- TextMate (on Mac) or EditPad (on Win)
- iTunes
- Photoshop
That's about it. I'm off to the tropical island now.
weisheng
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
I'm going to have to say only Quicksilver and iTunes are apps I can't live without. I'm good with any browser although I prefer Safari.
Griffin
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
I've been hooked on Camino for awhile now but if it was taken away from me I'm with weisheng, anything will do.
four more huh? on a tropical island?
-iTunes
-Newsfire
-Mail
-iChat (or Adium)
kinda practical picks given the environs but together they'd make me a goovin', connected, sunburnt fool.
Josue
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
Safari, Newsfire, iTunes, Quicksilver and iChat!
Pablo
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
Here is my thoughtless, recklessly thrown together list, it might differ if I put some thought into it
1. Quicksilver
2. Firefox + Greasemonkey
3. TextMate
4. WordPress(web apps count right? :-P)
5. Path Finder - file browsing is thus far unmatched IMO
... pretty much anything else is not Application specific but rather task specific. Got to have an mp3 player, an IM client, ftp client, feed reader, terminal client, etc
Kyle
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
1. Quicksilver
2. Adium
3. Firefox
4. UNO
5. Virtue Desktops
isdereks
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
1. Quicksilver
2. Newsfire
3. UNO
4. Virtue Desktops
5. Pukka
karmatosed
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
1. Quicksilver
2. Colloquoy
3. iCal
4. OmniOutliner
5. iPhoto
ender
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
1. Creative Suite 2
2. iTunes
3. Fireworks
4. FireFox
5. TextEdit
JPhill
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
1. firefox
2. photoshop
3. winamp or iTunes (I just need music)
4. Wordpress
5. aim
cavemonkey50
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
Quicksilver, iTunes, Firefox, Smultron, Transmit
Scrivs
Written Jul. 21, 2006 / Report /
1. Mail.
2. Acquisition.
3. iTunes.
4. Firefox.
5. Quicktime for the educational videos.
Cas
Written Jul. 22, 2006 / Report /
1. Thunderbird for email (Mail upped and died on me and I just can't face setting it up again).
2. Firefox
3. Vienna (for rss)
4. TextEdit
5. Photoshop