A classic example of an application that started off performing a simple, useful task (i.e. displaying PDF documents) and has grown to an overly complex, slow, hulking beast of an application.

I got scared off by the 251Mb disk space the installer claims that it needs:

I’ll stick to Apple’s Preview.app, thanks.

Useless Mac Applications #1 : Sherlock

So, I’m now in the process of getting my new MacBook up to speed in terms of applications. Here are the apps that I decided were essential and needed installing:

• Yahoo! Messenger
• last.fm Client
• TextWrangler
• Cyberduck
• Inquisitor
• OpenOffice
• Firefox

Bingo!