Desert Island Apps

The fantastic British Mac podcast by Will Green has a Desert Island Apps feature where,in a strikingly similar format to BBC Radio 4s Desert Island Discs, people send him a list of their 5 apps they would want on a desert island.

Well, I took the plunge and sent him mine. Here they are, what are yours?

1. Quicksilver

The does-everything workhorse utility app is fantastic, from basic App launcher, through quick image uploader to Flickr, to hardcore file manipulation it does it all. Fantastic.

2. Twitterrific

How else could I keep my followers on twitter.com up to date on the status of the desert island weather or the colour of the sand this week. Fun and ultimately pointless, I love it.

3. TextMate

I probably wont need to do much coding on a desert island but this would certainly come in hand in emergencies. The shortcuts make this for me.

4. Transmission

Ill need something to do when it's stormy weather on my desert island and the only way to download those legally available torrents on my Mac is of course Transmission.

4. AppleJack

Every Mac user should have this, not just those of us on a desert island. Should my Mac show any signs of ill-health a quick reboot and run through AppleJack and all is well. Recently made Intel compatible it is the first port of call for a flakey Mac, reboot, hold apple-s to get into the single-user (or command line) mode, type "applejack auto restart" and leave it alone. A short fsck, permissions repair, cache clear out, pref file check, etc later and it's rebooted and good as new. If you have any one Mac utility, get this one.

So there you go, now tell me yours.