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Nov 30, 2004, 04:59 AM
 
As you may have read in the other post i should be getting my iMac G5 very soon...

Never owned one before but know quite abit about them apart from the software side....

So what software do people recomend for

Downloading
Picture editing
Compressing Files
CD / DVD Burning
etc.. etc...

Also i know they rarely get virus's but what software should i get to prevent them??
     
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Nov 30, 2004, 05:02 AM
 
Downloading
From what? Safari or Bittorrent

Picture editing
How advanced? iPhoto or Photoshop

Compressing Files
Mac OS X has zip-compressing and zip-decompressing build-in

CD / DVD Burning
CD and DVD Burning also build-in.
     
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Nov 30, 2004, 05:12 AM
 
Thanks for the reply

Downloading
- Bittorrent

Picture editing
- Just want to resize pics and put watermarks over them, nice and simple to use.

Compressing Files
- Nice one

CD / DVD Burning
- Nice one again
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Nov 30, 2004, 05:13 AM
 
Link from one of the other posters here. Very helpful.

Btw, there are other threads on this. Many of them.

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Nov 30, 2004, 05:21 AM
 
Originally posted by Randman:
Link from one of the other posters here. Very helpful.

Btw, there are other threads on this. Many of them.
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Nov 30, 2004, 07:53 PM
 
Originally posted by Noonster:
Picture editing
- Just want to resize pics and put watermarks over them, nice and simple to use.
You can use iPhoto to resize photos and use iWatermark, EasyBatchPhoto, DropWaterMarkX or Downsize to add the watermark.
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Dec 1, 2004, 09:10 AM
 
Originally posted by Old Toad:
You can use iPhoto to resize photos and use iWatermark, EasyBatchPhoto, DropWaterMarkX or Downsize to add the watermark.
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