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After switching to a Mac a while back ago I’ve spent a lot of time searching for new apps to use to see what’s so special about a Mac. I’ve found a lot of really cool apps in the past and some that I just didn’t care for. Here’s a short list of my recent favorites.

Adium — A multi-protocol chat client. I use it to chat on AIM, MSN, and even Facebook. Supports all type of different

TweetDeck — This app isn’t Mac specific but I still added it to the list. It’s just a simple Twitter client that uses columns to seperate tweets. You can even set up custom coloumns that search for specific things.

iStat Menus — Display different information on your menu bar. You can display network traffic, temperature, hard drive activity and all sorts of other info.

MultiClutch — Adds extra features for those who have glass trackpads on their MacBook. I used it to set a three finger swipe to the left as going backwards in Firefox.

Growl — Shows notifications in a neat and clean manner.

Fruux — Sync Safari bookmarks and contacts across Macs.

QuickSilver — Task launcher.

CoconutBattery – Check the status of your battery. You can see your battery health, how many cycles you’ve used and current battery charge with the maximum battery charge.

BBedit — Single window, multiple file, code editor.

BowTie — Displays album art work, song title, rating, and other information about the current song playing in iTunes neatly on your desktop. You can create your own themes using simple HTML and CSS.

Fetch — Just simple , straight out, FTP.

Silk — Change system fonts.

Connect360 — Connect your Mac to your 360 so you can watch videos, view pictures and listen to your music.

Theres are some of my favorite Mac apps. Whats yours?

Here’s a little quickie about how to take a time consuming task like re-sizing and renaming pictures and making it extremely easy and quick with Automator.

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If you own two Mac’s like myself, maybe you’re wondering “How can I sync things without paying the $99 a year for MobileMe?” Well friends I’ve found a way.

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Instructions from support.apple.com:

The battery calibration for the PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD) and any model of MacBook or MacBook Pro has been updated because of a new battery released with this computer. With these computers, follow these steps to calibrate your battery:

1. Plug in the power adapter and fully charge your PowerBook’s battery until the light ring or LED on the power adapter plug changes to green and the onscreen meter in the menu bar indicates that the battery is fully charged.
2. Allow the battery to rest in the fully charged state for at least two hours. You may use your computer during this time as long as the adapter is plugged in.
3. Disconnect the power adapter with the computer still on and start running the computer off battery power. You may use your computer during this time. When your battery gets low, you will see the low battery warning dialog on the screen.
4. Continue to keep your computer on until it goes to sleep. Save all your work and close all applications when the battery gets very low, before the computer goes to sleep.
5. Turn off the computer or allow it to sleep for five hours or more.
6. Connect the power adapter and leave it connected until the battery is fully charged again.

Tip: When the battery reaches “empty”, the computer is forced into sleep mode. The battery actually keeps back a reserve beyond “empty”, to maintain the computer in sleep for a period of time. Once the battery is truly exhausted, the computer is forced to shut down. At this point, with the safe sleep function introduced in the PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD) computers, the computer’s memory contents have been saved to the hard drive. When power is restored, the computer returns itself to its pre-sleep state using the safe sleep image on the hard drive.

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