so i just bought a mac..

[sola sistim]

13" Macbook 2.16ghz Intel Core Duo. 1gb ram, 120gb hdd. 8x dvd burner.

should have it in next few days..


what are some good, handy,useful,must have apps?
anything i should steer clear of?


probs only be used for music,photos,internet, but post anything.

[Deckard]

Adium (http://www.adiumx.com)
- combined IM, speak to people on Yahoo, MSN, etc (better than iChat IMO)

NeoOffice (http://www.neooffice.org/)
- a free MS Office substitute - open, edit and save .doc, .xls etc files.

Depending on what you get (or rather, how you get it ;) ), you might find this one's essential...
Little Snitch (http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html)

Loads of things I can't remember at the moment (recently lost my bookmarks :mad: ) but check out what's posted here...
http://macspecialist.org/content/articles/essential_apps/
http://www.coolmacapps.com/

Will try and post more as and when I remember.

[lloyd]

Spam!


or not?

;)

[BrotherLovesDub]

Transmission is great for Torrents. Adium is the best chat client. Cyberduck is free for FTP.

google "Best Free Mac Apps" and use a link from lifehacker, tuaw.com, engadget or other similar tech site.

[patrick]

VLC is very handy for movies

iphoto is quite nice, if you are super keen though then there is aperture for organization and photoshop for editing...

[BrotherLovesDub]

yeah, you'll also need to download Perian, it's the Swiss Army Knife of video codecs for mac. probably Flip4Mac too, but Perian may handle it all.

[chuck]

Quicksilver

zen mac-ified.

although rumors persist of it's demise - it's a sweet little launcher - and has so much extension power built in.

Growl - is dead handy - system-wide and nifty.

seconded VLC - although with Perian and Flip4Mac - most content plays in QT. Get QT Pro-d.

get more RAM - 2GB if you can. that'll make everything better.

If you feel like mucking around - VMWare's Fusion is super. I've got Ubuntu and Windows XP virtual sessions that I fire up every now and again. Although Ubuntu is so GUI - it doesn't feel very hackish at all.

I like TextWrangler for text editing.

I use Firefox 3 on my personal iMac - but on my school supplied Macbook - FF3 eats itself - so trial your browsers.

Fluid - is neat. Helps you make stand-alone web apps. Try it out.

Appcleaner is good for tidying up your files/apps - and deleting associated crud.

I should have done links with all of those - but just do a google for them.

[IsiliRunite]

Google Earth and

QUICKSILVER

Quicksilver is the navigation-interaction all-in-wonder that works like Spotlight should!

[sola sistim]

Spam!


or not?

;)
U R.

thanks for the links.

currently downloading Guitar Pro, already got it for windows and got 55000 tabs for it.
will get google earth too.
whats best soulseek client? solarseek?

[chuck]

Yojimbo - from Barebones Software.

Great app for organising and tidying up all that digital crud you have hanging around your life.

[chuck]

Freeware apps for Mac (http://macapper.com/2008/01/10/mac-os-x-freeware-list/)

and a few free games (http://www.pcfastlane.com/features/top-20-free-mac-games/).

[Winston]

parralel if u wonna run xp, iglasses for fooling around with your cam

try projectw.org, lot's of mac stuff

[chuck]

parralel if u wonna run xp, iglasses for fooling around with your cam

try projectw.org, lot's of mac stuff
I would say use VMWare Fusion (http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/) over parallels. Runs a lot smoother in my experience.

Obviously if you want full hardware access for XP - then you'll have to run Boot Camp - but if you're wanting to run OS X apps side by side with XP - Fusion is brilliant.

Dragging and dropping a file from the OS X finder into the XP desktop - and then using said file is very cool.

[sola sistim]

awesome.
well my mac actually has 2gb ram, so im happy with that.
just got transmission and quicksilver.