I made the leap to the Mac less than two years ago. When I first made the move I read a number of posts which describes some of the best Mac applications. Over the last 20 months I have found my collection of applications I swear by. Some are from those initial lists but most I stumbled upon along the way- often by accident.

With so many of us here on the site using Macs these days I thought it would be worthwhile for us to begin sharing some of our favorite Mac applications. Hence our new “GD Must-Have Mac Applications” series was born.

At the same time, I also wanted us to be able to not only share a description but to show the EXPERIENCE of using the application, as well. I went in search of a good application for capturing a screencast of using a given application. I tried a number but wasn’t fully satisfied with any until I came upon ScreenFlow. It does everything I hoped for and much more. It is fully-featured yet simple to use right away. It only seemed fitting that a look at it should be the inaugural post for this series. Here’s a quick look at Telestream’s ScreenFlow.

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There are a host of applications that allow you to grab images from your computer’s screen. I’ve tried a number of them and many do a terrific job. For simple screenshots I use Evernote since those images are immediately synced with my online account.

For those times when I want to do more with an image such as add text, highlight portions or more there is only one choice… Skitch.

Here’s a look…

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