iUseThis works much in the same way as Digg. But instead of digging news stories you are digging OS X applications. The site contains pretty much every application imaginable and provides registered users with the ability to declare that ‘they use this’ application via a voting system.
iUseThis displays similar and related applications on the profile view of each application as well. This is a handy way to find cheap alternatives to expensive applications such as Photoshop. If you take a loot at the profile page for Photoshop you’ll see that iUseThis recommends Goldburg and Gimp as alternatives.
The iUseThis top list of applications features VLC on top followed by Firefox, Adium, Safrai and Quicksilver.
There is a bit of an FAQ on their about page if you want to know more but I covered pretty much all you need to know in this short post. It’s a simple but powerful website and is especially useful for those looking for free alternatives to expensive software or those who are new to Macs.
I setup my own profile this morning and I have already added a good few of the applications which I use on a daily basis.
Do you have a profile? If you do then post a link to it in the comments.
Cheers.
July 30th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
A good companion to this is Wakoopa (http://wakoopa.com/PaulMWatson/) which monitors what you actually use and for how long. I’d like to give Wakoopa a year and then compare it what people say they use and like best.
July 30th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
56hours on Textmate! By jiminey that’s a lot of LOC!
July 31st, 2007 at 12:20 am
Cheers Cormac, just found an app I was looking for to plugin to iTunes and allow me to control playback from my menu bar…. nice!
July 31st, 2007 at 12:22 am
No probs Chris.
July 31st, 2007 at 7:58 am
What did you find, Chris? I use Synergy.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Nice review Cormac. I only recently caught on to the whole iusethis community but I have found it so useful I wish I had found it ages ago!