What are your top 5 mac apps
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i leave my mac running all night, shut it down once a month for calibration.
like someone said just close the lid
Just got a MBP recently - 17", fuck you for thinking it's too big, my shoulders can take it.
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Dropbox <- love this and the iPhone app
Evernote <- don't use it as much as I should, for keeping tasks/ideas organized. Also has a great iPhone app.
Bean (Word alternative, very nice)
Chrome <- just came out of beta for OSX, using it right now, very fast.
VLC
Handbrake
FileZilla
Final Cut
@OP: I check Lifehacker.com from time to time, they're always putting out "The Best Mac Apps for Free" and stuff like that. They do Windows too.
I haven't given the whole VM/Parallels thing a go yet, but will probably jump in soon.
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Dropbox <- love this and the iPhone app
Evernote <- don't use it as much as I should, for keeping tasks/ideas organized. Also has a great iPhone app.
Bean (Word alternative, very nice)
Chrome <- just came out of beta for OSX, using it right now, very fast.
VLC
Handbrake
FileZilla
Final Cut
@OP: I check Lifehacker.com from time to time, they're always putting out "The Best Mac Apps for Free" and stuff like that. They do Windows too.
I haven't given the whole VM/Parallels thing a go yet, but will probably jump in soon.
Are you kidding me. An HD works like a heart. For every rotation it's wasting life. Eventually it will die out. So keeping your computer on 24/7 is gonna kill your HD eventually regardless if you have a cooler or not.
Cryptix this is a sick list i can use all of these and have been looking for awhile now. Thank you and +rep
Finder
Safari
Firefox
Thunderbird (email)
IE 6
Maya (3d)
CS5
Transmit (best ftp)
1password (password management)
Gruml (RSS)
Adium (yes, billy mays)
Coda (html, css, php etc)
Eclipse (java)
Versions (subversion)
Skype
jDownloader (manage rapidshare downloads)
PandoraBoy (plays Pandora radio from outside the browser)
iTunes
GarageBand for making beats
Pro Tools which I've never used and should delete...
Audacity (sound editing)
VLC (media player)
Quicktime Pro
OmniGraffly (making sweet diagrams)
OmniFocus (keeping life in order)
HitList (old way of keeping life in order)
Genius (one of many study tools) another I use is iFlash
And the 17" MBP is sick. It's not big enough to be annoying and it is totally worth it for the extra screen real estate. Even my older 15 inch seems like everything is crammed now.
I've played around with other people's Macs but never owned one so naturally I don't have much experience with Mail since I don't - you know - check other people's mail.
Is Thunderbird much better than Mail or is Mail suitable? I like Thunderbird but I don't LOVE Thunderbird. One thing I was actually looking forward to with a Mac + iPhone (currently Win + BB) is that everything will be drop-dead stupidly easy seamless. While BB + Tbird is possible, there's hoops to jump through and always the possibility of something not shaking hands somewhere at a crucial point. Bringing Tbird into the mix with a Mac seems like the whole point is Moot for an email standpoint.
So my long-winded question is: does the Mail app do fine for business and handle many different email accounts well enough to leave TBird alone?
Is Thunderbird much better than Mail or is Mail suitable? I like Thunderbird but I don't LOVE Thunderbird. One thing I was actually looking forward to with a Mac + iPhone (currently Win + BB) is that everything will be drop-dead stupidly easy seamless. While BB + Tbird is possible, there's hoops to jump through and always the possibility of something not shaking hands somewhere at a crucial point. Bringing Tbird into the mix with a Mac seems like the whole point is Moot for an email standpoint.
So my long-winded question is: does the Mail app do fine for business and handle many different email accounts well enough to leave TBird alone?
I don't really remember why I stopped using Mail and switched to Thunderbird, but they should both be fine... I don't really understand why you need to have the same mail clients on different devices in order to keep them sync'd...
Anyway, You're also going to want to download Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime components And Transmission for torrents. iCal is good if you need to keep a calendar.
Useful keyboard shortcuts:
Command + spacebar = Spotlight, which searches for shit on your hard drive
F4 = brings up the weather, calculator, and a calendar.
Command + alt + escape = ctrl + alt + delete
Four finger swipe down = display all windows
Four finger swipe up = show desktop
Setting up Hot Corners in your system prefs is nice too. Check that out.
And a lot of new people don't realize that you can set up right clicking and shit in system preferences like on a PC but you probly knew that...
Anyway, You're also going to want to download Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime components And Transmission for torrents. iCal is good if you need to keep a calendar.
Useful keyboard shortcuts:
Command + spacebar = Spotlight, which searches for shit on your hard drive
F4 = brings up the weather, calculator, and a calendar.
Command + alt + escape = ctrl + alt + delete
Four finger swipe down = display all windows
Four finger swipe up = show desktop
Setting up Hot Corners in your system prefs is nice too. Check that out.
And a lot of new people don't realize that you can set up right clicking and shit in system preferences like on a PC but you probly knew that...
This thread is money. I just got a MBP a few weeks back and had the same question.
Another question is...does having FireFox and or IE downloaded instead of using Safari present any problems...I want to be able to check browser compatibility on sites I create...
Another question is...does having FireFox and or IE downloaded instead of using Safari present any problems...I want to be able to check browser compatibility on sites I create...
get VMWareFusion and run Windows XP. Use IETester
....and since Browsershots.org sux balls for testing IE6, check this. Quick Tip: Top 5 Ways to Browser-Test your Website | Nettuts+
command-shift-n = create new folder
command-click background window = move window without bringing it to front.
command-click file name in bar at top of open document to see path to where it is stored. Release mouse button to open said folder.
option-click a close button to close all windows of that program, also works with zoom and minimize buttons
put a shortcut of your drive (or any folder) on the dock, right-click it to quickly navigate to any folder on your drive
Don't want to use an ftp program, command-k in finder to connect to server. Useful for many situations.
When in finder command-shift-a opens applications folder, command-shift-u utilities. Also works in file open/save windows where command-d takes you to the desktop
In a finder window command-j to change view settings, watch the this window only or all windows option buttons
Also forgot to add that I never used to be a trackpad person - always had a dinky little Logitech mouse, even for my laptops. The MBP's trackpad is awesome, especially the three-finger swipe to get to the top/bottom of pages and back/forward - although unfortunately this isn't possible in the new Chrome... yet.
Get used to Expose... watch at about 1:30
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I have expose set so when I drag the mouse to the lower right, it spreads em.... and the lower left to hide all Windows to reveal the desktop.
I cant imagine not having this feature.
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I have expose set so when I drag the mouse to the lower right, it spreads em.... and the lower left to hide all Windows to reveal the desktop.
I cant imagine not having this feature.