If you’re working on a Mac, there are a ton of useful and affordable applications out there. Here’s a list of tools that I use regularly. How does your list of favorite apps look like?

Dropbox. A super-fast file sharing app that feels like it’s part of the Finder.
Little Snapper. Helpful for taking and organizing screenshots of your projects.
Quicksilver. The fastest way to start up an application or find a phone number without touching the mouse.
Screenflick. Simple screen capture app that we use to record trailers of our games.
Sequel Pro. A tidy graphical gui to admin your local and remote MySQL databases.
TextMate. The best text editor around. Lightweight and extendable.
Things. Simple, but powerful task management that syncs with it’s iPhone companion app.
Timepost. Unobtrusive time-tracking that syncs with Basecamp or Harvest.
Times. Beautifully designed RSS reader that feels much more like reading a newspaper instead of emptying your inbox.
Transmit. FTP-workhorse. Allows to edit remote files directly.
Versions. Well designed Subversion client. Makes things like tagging and renaming folders much easier.
Wallet. Stores all those user accounts, passwords, credit cards numbers and licence keys for you.
WireTap Studio. Easily record audio output from any application, system audio, microphone or line-in.

Matthew Gallant wrote at Thursday 14. January 2010:

I’m a big fan of Fluid (to access gmail), OmniGraffle (pricey, but the most intuitive diagram making software ever made), Adium, Twitterific and Pixen.

Andreas wrote at Friday 15. January 2010:

Matthew, thanks for sharing your list. Pixen looks great, but I wish it was still in active development. It feels a bit outdated with the last update from 2006 …

Marek wrote at Saturday 23. January 2010:

as a hardcore fan and longterm user of quicksilver I also want to add that I switched to launchbar. First I felt as a traitor but then I had to admit it’s just so much faster and reliable and just works like a charm. It looks ugly though and still can’t send emails directly.

Try also Fresh from ironicsoftware.com/ great for tagging and working with multiple programs on the same project.

Andreas wrote at Sunday 24. January 2010:

Launchbar and Fresh look interesting. I wish they supported having the app icon in the menu bar instead of the dock. I like to have real working applications that are currently running in the dock only to keep it less cluttered.