My Favourite Macintosh Applications

Thanks Darren for asking me to list my favourite apps for the Mac.
Here they are! [Based on my personal use and my use in a primary/elementary school]
I've put them into categories, with the ones near the top of each list being my most preferred.
The ones with an asterisk [*] are my top ten or so.

[As with any software recommendations in my blog, what I write about is my opinion only and I take no responsibility for anything going wrong with your computer, server, network etc.. Please read the conditions and product disclosures and EULA for each application. Always exercise care and caution!]

Desk Top Publishing / Productivity
* AppleWorks [still a favourite, great for junior students, although no site licencing available and no longer bundled]
* Pages [ part of iWork 08]
Office for Mac 2008 [if licencing costs not huge, e.g. covered centrally in DEECD schools]. Otherwise OpenOffice or NeoOffice are alternatives. As is Bean [word processing only]
Paintbrush

Presentation / Multimedia
* Keynote [part of iWork 08] a true multimedia presentation tool, that will not crash even with lots of video content
* Comic Life [This is one of my all time favourite apps]. Also check out Skitch & Doozla - all from plasq.com
* Scratch
Kahootz3 [not sure whether it is running natively on OSX yet!]
PowerPoint [has to be in the list]

Images
iPhoto 08 [part of iLife 08]
* PhotoBooth [now with green screen in Leopard]
* GraphicConverter [Just a great image editor]

DV /Animation
* iMovie HD6 [now free download for iLife 08 users] I haven't made the switch to iMovie 08 yet
* iStopMotion
iDVD 08 [part of iLife 08]
* GarageBand 3 [For music /soundtrack composition][part of iLife 08]
iTunes [part of iLife 08]
Pencil
VLC
QuickTime Pro
Perian
Flip4Mac

Database
Bento [haven't used it much, but looks easy to use]. Bento 2 just released 14.10.2008

Spreadsheets
Numbers [part of iWork 08]
Excel

Mind / Concept Mapping
CMap Tools
FreeMind

Podcasting
*  Garageband 3
Audacity [open source]
Keynote [esp. to all video into podcasts]

Web Browsing
Safari 3
Mozilla Firefox
Camino
Opera [Speed Dial is great when teaching]

ScreenCasts
* SnapzProX

eMail
Entourage
Mail

RSS
NetNewsWire Lite

Web Authoring
* iWeb
Bunny 2 [allows to publish multiple iWeb websites]
DreamWeaver [teacher use only]
Also NVU or RapidWeaver are cheaper alternatives to DreamWeaver

FTP
Transmit

System Administration
Apple Remote Desktop 3 [See my blogpost on 01 October 2008]

Useful Links
Apple Media Series Tutorials for iLife 08 & iWork 08 K-12 http://www.apple.com/education/k12/applemediaseries/
Using Web 2.0 Tools for ICT Lesson Planning http://ictedservices.typepad.com/icted_services/2008/07/using-web-20-to.html
Open Source Mac http://www.opensourcemac.org/
The Free Mac Classroom http://web.mac.com/simon_elliott/simon_elliott@mac.com/Software.html