The Best Applications and Programs for Mac OS X

      Shop for Mac App Store that all users of Apple we have in our Mac, has been filling in its few years of life with a multitude of applications and programs, some more successful than others, that allow each user to have, with security included, exactly the configuration they want and need in their Mac. To this we must also add the large amount of third-party applications external to our App Store, very useful on many occasions, but with which we must be cautious and make sure of your confidence to avoid future troubles like the one we told you a few days ago in "QuickTime generates a security flaw ...".

      According to the use we give to our Mac We will need some specific applications and not others. For example, a professional user who deals with images will need applications that I do not require. That is why I am going to focus on what, in my experience, are the best applications for any base user, those that allow us to obtain maximum performance and increase the incredible user experience on board our Macs. Obviously I cannot know the thousands and thousands of applications available today in the Mac App Store, so I invite you to add in the comments those that I have not considered and briefly explain why you use them.

Applications and programs for Mac

Evernote y Dropbox. For cloud file management these are the two star applications. Evernote It is more oriented to the capture of notes, web pages, etc., although we can also upload complete files as in Dropbox that, with a more "classic" organization, allows us to upload all kinds of files. The best thing is that both have both desktop applications and for iPhone and iPad, so the timing between devices and the availability of documents anywhere and anytime is more than assured. In addition, both have a free account (enough for most average users) and premium.

degrees. With a really minimalist design, this application allows you to know the time of the area where you are without having to open the Dashboard. Also, it hardly consumes resources in your Mac, which makes it more functional if possible.

SmcFanControl, simple enforcement that allows us to increase the speed of the fans of our MacBook o MacBook Pro manually, something especially useful at this time of year and in excessively hot spaces (like my room).

Coffee. Another application of the most useful and simple and also available for free in the Mac App Store. With just one click on its icon in the menu bar (a nice cup of coffee) we will prevent our Mac go to sleep indefinitely or for as long as we want.

FreeMemory. Also available in mac appstore, It has a free version and a paid version. The first will be more than enough to free memory in our Mac, especially when we have many applications open and / or we have been working with it for a long time.

Free Space Tab. Free utility to quickly view the available space on both our hard drive from the menu bar. Mac as in all that we have connected. It has a very careful interface and we can choose between seeing only the icon, the free percentage or the gigs that we have free in each and every one of the mounted units (not recommended for those obsessed with available space, such as a server).

Rename me. This is one of those really practical utilities because, as its name indicates, it allows us to rename files but in bulk. We can transfer, for example, the three hundred photos from our last trip and at once assign a name to all of them as well as order them by establishing a numerical series before or after the title, among other options. Very highly recommended.

CleanMyMac2. With a minimalist and functional design, this enforcement will allow us to clean our Mac of all kinds of garbage that accumulates over time and occupies space on our hard drive: cache of all installed applications or the system itself, temporary files, program logs or browser cookies. This second version also incorporates another series of utilities such as the possibility of managing duplicate photographs in iPhoto or secure deletion of compromised files from OS X. If you have never applied something similar to yours Mac, you will be surprised by the amount of free space that you will gain the first time you start this utility. There is a fee (€ 39 for the license for a Mac) but if you look for….

VLC Player. There is little to say about this well-known application, it is simply the player that plays everything. In all the time that I have been using it, there has not yet been a format that has resisted it. It is also completed with other applications for iPhone and iPad that allow their remote control.

Tux NTFS for Mac. A very useful tool because sooner or later all users of Mac we see ourselves in the need to read or write in  NTFS formatted disks, the file system that Microsoft uses and is widely used. With this extension installed in our Mac we will never have any problem about it. Although it is a paid option, it has a trial version and also, surely you have many resources to find it.

All this is not a ranking of applications, they are simply the ones that I consider the most useful based on my experience and daily use. If you just bought a Mac, I recommend each and every one from the first day, surely you will enjoy it even more if possible.