[ankle_brains]

so what application do you have that you really hate and don't like, but keep around because you must use it?

mine is internet explorer because nobody else has a (scrapbook) feature like explorer.

what about you?

[sanity assassin]

oh that'll be lightwave 3d, my nemesis, and most irritating program ever made.
i need it kicking about cause i have some old projects i made in it going back 10 years now, but haven't transfered them to what i use now, softimage xsi.

it's one of those love it/hate it programs, love it cause i used it over so many years but the thing just bugs the life out of me, hehe.

[Cipher13]

MSN.

[driven]

Windows.

[MacGorilla]

IE. Sometimes a website wont work properly unless I am using IE.

[Minty Fresh]

Originally posted by MacGorilla:
IE. Sometimes a website wont work properly unless I am using IE.

Ditto

[Lateralus]

In it's current itteration: Office.

[ink]

Microsoft Access.

Don't get me started on how AWFUL Appleworks is. OpenOffice is 2 orders of magnitude better (and I actually use it instead of Word or Excel).

[gorickey]

Originally posted by ink:
Microsoft Access.

So you mean VPC?

[driven]

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
In it's current itteration: Office.

I'll take the current iteration of Mac:Office over the current Windows version. :-)

(And the NEW mac office is supposed to be even better!)

[Lateralus]

Originally posted by driven:
I'll take the current iteration of Mac:Office over the current Windows version. :-)

(And the NEW mac office is supposed to be even better!)

Well, the Windows version actually:

1) Is fast
2) Does not lock up
3) Renders fonts better
4) And did I mention that it is faster?

[driven]

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Well, the Windows version actually:

1) Is fast
2) Does not lock up
3) Renders fonts better
4) And did I mention that it is faster?

It's also much faster!

[gorickey]

Originally posted by driven:
(And the NEW mac office is supposed to be even better!)

Is it supposed to be any faster? Never heard.

[Lateralus]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Is it supposed to be any faster? Never heard.

Haha. No way in hell it will be faster. They said it would have 'new features'. And we know what that means from Microsoft.

[Truepop]

Premiere 6.5 I hate the damn thing but all my work has to be turned with really Premiere Pro but they don't make it for Mac. I prefer FCP but the prof wrote the book on Premiere (really) and so we are forced to use it.

I don't know why he won't let us use what ever editing suite we want as long as the final product is good but ohh well.

[Kilbey]

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Well, the Windows version actually:

1) Is fast
2) Does not lock up
3) Renders fonts better
4) And did I mention that it is faster?

Does that mean you'll be able to type faster whilst using it? More words per minute? Less tyops?

I could really use a boost in that area. Maybe if I bought a faster computer.

[King Bob On The Cob]

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Well, the Windows version actually:

1) Is fast
2) Does not lock up
3) Renders fonts better
4) And did I mention that it is faster?

It's friggen word processor/spreadsheet/presentation apps, how fast do these things need to be to keep up with your amazing WPM?

[Lateralus]

The whole application is very non-responsive. And yes, I do mean that it is not fast enough to keep up with my WPM. It could not keep up on my iBook 700 G3 with 640MBs of RAM. Yet the Windows version runs like butter on my friends Duron 800 with 192MBs of RAM running XP.

[cszar2001]

I hate IE-but one important website doesn`t work with Safari.

[OreoCookie]

MSN -- to chat with some of my friends (ICQ doesn't work with a webcam)

IE (yak) -- Internet banking, Safari as well as Gecko-derivatives won't work

[driven]

Originally posted by OreoCookie:
MSN -- to chat with some of my friends (ICQ doesn't work with a webcam)

IE (yak) -- Internet banking, Safari as well as Gecko-derivatives won't work

Sorry for the digression but:
Does the Apple iSite work with MSN's messager? (How about Yahoo?)

I have not bought one because, well, I know NOBODY that's available on AOL or iChat.

[dlefebvre]

Same here. IE that I am happily using less and less.

[funkboy]

Internet Explorer.

My college's registration system *still* doesn't work with Safari, even after numerous emails/bug reports to them.

Wonder what I could do about that...

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by OreoCookie:


IE (yak) -- Internet banking, Safari as well as Gecko-derivatives won't work

Idiots coding for IE only need to be shot.

[ambush]

Originally posted by sanity assassin:
oh that'll be lightwave 3d, my nemesis, and most irritating program ever made.
i need it kicking about cause i have some old projects i made in it going back 10 years now, but haven't transfered them to what i use now, softimage xsi.

it's one of those love it/hate it programs, love it cause i used it over so many years but the thing just bugs the life out of me, hehe.

Softimage forever.

[Chris O'Brien]

MSN messenger for me too. The majority of my mates use it, so I kinda have to. Problem is, the OSX version is crap compared to the windows one. Hopefully the next version will have webcam support etc.

Ah well. The life of a mac user whose mates use windows...

[ambush]

MSN Messenger

it's slow
ugly
big
obstrusive
buggy

[Chris O'Brien]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Idiots coding for IE only need to be shot.

Hopefully this will come true. But I doubt it.

[ambush]

Originally posted by Kilbey:
Does that mean you'll be able to type faster whilst using it? More words per minute? Less tyops?

I could really use a boost in that area. Maybe if I bought a faster computer.

no, but frustration due to office lags stops creativity flow

[Worst. Episode. Ever.]

QuarkXPress

[sanity assassin]

Originally posted by ambush:
Softimage forever.

heh, definately. it's another world using xsi when compared to LW. it's a tool that you just know has been made for animators, it almost feels as vast as an operating system due to the amount of features and flexibilty.

Rumour is, that SI are considering a Mac port, if that happens, I can move all my production to OS X.

You gotta love the Canadians for making the best animation tools, EVER!!!

[Kenneth]

Under Mac OS X;
1) RealOne Player
2) Windows Media Player
3) IE (The browser of choice for pogo.com)
4) ICQ (some people decided NOT to switch to AIM, I have Proteus, but seldom fire it up for checking MSN buddies)

Under VPC;
1) IE (integrated to the system, Thanks M$)
2) Office XP suite (again.. more robust than Mac: Office v.X)
3) VisualBasic.Net (for school)
4) COBOL (for school)

[ghost_flash]

Anything Windwos.

[Superchicken]

AppleWorks... I don't have anything free that does word count and it opens my old apple works docs. Other than that I would trash the app.

[Brien]

Originally posted by driven:
Windows.

And IE.

[ink]

Originally posted by cszar2001:
I hate IE-but one important website doesn`t work with Safari.

Really? I didn't install IE with Panther, and I still haven't missed it at all. Anything that doesn't work with Safari works fine in Firebird.

Originally posted by goricky:
So you mean VPC?

Naw, I rdesktop from my linux machine to a Windows 2003 box at work to run it. OSX still sucks at ipsec/pptp. :-(

[OwlBoy]

MSN, and at school Quark 4 in classic.

-Owl

[Truepop]

Originally posted by Black Book:


Hopefully this will come true. But I doubt it.

All I care about is the damn css support in IE and PNG. I don't like having to curve my design to meet the needs of that browser.

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by Worst. Episode. Ever.:
QuarkXPress

That is mine... It's a love hate thing for me. I love it, but hate it because it reminds me of a 1980's application. It needs a major redesign.

[typoon]

MS Office. Hate it but still need to use it.

[wdlove]

I don't have any applications on my Mac currently that I hate.