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Universal Apps: the ones we want, and the ones we love...
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Feb 9, 2006, 09:16 PM
 
Just curious, now that the intel macs have been out a while, what are the universal binaries that you like on your core duo? What programs are you waiting for?

Favorites:
iLife - enough said, these apps sing on Intel
Camino 1.0rc1 - A beautiful browser. Near perfect in my eyes.
Handbrake - very nice app, moves along reasonably fast
Osirix - medical image viewer - these guys have an incredible, open source universal app

Wishlist:
Microsoft Office (though the PowerPC version is *faster* under rosetta than it was native on my old box)
Disk Warrior
Stuffit
EndNote
VLC Player/Flip4Mac


Well...??

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Feb 9, 2006, 09:20 PM
 
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Feb 9, 2006, 10:02 PM
 
Delicious Library is now universal, in addition to having a completely redone video UPC scanner. You can now use the fixed focus cameras on the iMacs and MacBook Pros to scan.
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 12:38 AM
 
MPlayer OS X would be nice too
YummySoup! - Recipe management and sharing at its best!
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 04:10 AM
 
Office and CS2. I think office works OK for me but it wasn't brilliant at speed on ppc and intel doesn't improve anything.
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 05:44 AM
 
Virtual PC 8 (or same type of program)
iMac Core Duo 1.83 Ghz | 1.25GB RAM | 160HD, MacBook Core Duo 1.83 Ghz | 13.3" | 60HD | 1.0GB RAM
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 06:58 AM
 
For VLC there is an Intel build now, but the Universal Binary is still a lot of work.
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=16725

Derk-Jan Hartman, Student of the University Twente (NL), developer of VLC media player
     
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Feb 10, 2006, 07:01 AM
 
Originally Posted by harrisjamieh
Virtual PC 8 (or same type of program)
That is one reason I would like to see darwinports or fink on intel working properly too as they have qemu and other virtualizers that could run intel windows at almost full speed. Even if it's not full speed it would be almost there, which is much better than vpc already on the ppc.
     
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Feb 11, 2006, 01:28 AM
 
Originally Posted by The DJ
For VLC there is an Intel build now, but the Universal Binary is still a lot of work.
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=16725

I'll take Intel-only - I only have Intel in my machine!

Universal would be nice, just to merge the development into one binary, looking forward to this app maturing - its a regular of mine.

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Feb 11, 2006, 08:38 AM
 
I think Transmit is pretty nifty, as well as Adium.
     
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Feb 12, 2006, 11:18 AM
 
PocketMac for blackberry. Yeah, need that. The site is claiming something about Apple's USB implementation that needs to be fixed for pocketmac to work on Intel.

http://pocketmac.com/updates.html

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