[cliff]

I just picked up a 17 during Night of Panther. I'm a switcher from windows so I'm not familiar with the OS X community. Wat are some "must have apps" to download?

[(",)PB12]

Originally posted by cliff:
I just picked up a 17 during Night of Panther. I'm a switcher from windows so I'm not familiar with the OS X community. Wat are some "must have apps" to download?

1) OpenOffice (if you're not willing to pay for Officev:X)OpenOffice
2) VLC (for all your VCD, Movie, DVD needs)
VideoLan
3) ICQ for Mac OSX(need i say more)
I SEEK YOU

THat's all for now..

[Sakino]

Originally posted by (",)PB12:
1) OpenOffice (if you're not willing to pay for Officev:X)OpenOffice
2) VLC (for all your VCD, Movie, DVD needs)
VideoLan
3) ICQ for Mac OSX(need i say more)
I SEEK YOU

THat's all for now..

People still use icq? LoL I have a 6 digit number (2-----) from when it first came out, I should give a try sometime.
I have just resorted to aol im, since everyone in college uses it.

[kidtexas]

Launchbar.

http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/

[11011001]

Originally posted by Sakino:
People still use icq? LoL I have a 6 digit number (2-----) from when it first came out, I should give a try sometime.
I have just resorted to aol im, since everyone in college uses it.

I still think other things, even iChat, suck compared to it.. but that's just my opinion.

[workerbee]

Originally posted by kidtexas:
Launchbar.

http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/

LaunchBar, absolutely. After a few days of using it, you won't be able to imagine how you ever got by without it.

If you used a Wintel laptop with one of those fancy trackpads they have, you might be interested in SideTrack (haven't tested it myself though, just d/l'd it.)

[JasonBourne]

Sidetrack is nice if you use your powerbook touchpad all the time. You can scroll horizontal/vertical using your touchpad.http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/
Konfabulator is also nice.
http://www.konfabulator.com/

[Bostic]

Originally posted by JasonBourne:
Sidetrack is nice if you use your powerbook touchpad all the time. You can scroll horizontal/vertical using your touchpad.http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/

I'm planning on rejoining the Mac community again with a 12" rev b and Sidetrack looks like a winner app for me. Does it allow mapping the 4 corners of the track pad to do things like right click, forward, back, like the Synaptics drivers on Windows notebooks?

[spatterson]

Originally posted by 11011001:
I still think other things, even iChat, suck compared to it.. but that's just my opinion.

I haven't used ICQ, IRC, whatever since '96.

[threestain]

Launchbar is the best shareware app I've come across especially for a mac newbie - it solves all the hassle of finding where applications are. Brilliant!

[ae86_16v]

Adium
Snard
LimeWire
Toast
Office v.X

[IronPen]

In no particular order:

DVD Cache - catalog your DVD collection
Fugu - free FTP/SFTP app
Meteorologist - free weather retriever
Proteus - mutli IM client
MPlayer and VLC - media viewers
Watson - Sherlock, but better...shareware, but worth it IMO.
Wednesday's List - retrieve your comic book list, including prices, weekly

[voyageur]

Watson
My favorite non-graphics app

[babynino]

LauchBar

[PBG4 User]

If you use IRC, get X-Chat Aqua. Totally free, with downloadable source code.

Linky --> http://xchataqua.sourceforge.net/

[The Placid Casual]

Menu Meters 1.0
Galerie
Romeo (if you have a BT phone)
iBlog
Sidetrack
xnap

[forcelite]

Ok I think I got you covered

ill rate them with numbers (1-5)

MlMac 5 - Kazza for mac but better

Poisoned 3 - Kazza for mac but not as good as mlmac IMo

Acquisition 4 - limewire but better

Forty-two 5 - The best, easiest to use all in one program to rip and convert a dvd to divx, vcd or a dvd-r


VLC 5- very good divx, dvd, everything player

Keynote 4 - very good powerpoint type app, one thing that ercs me and keeps from getting 5 stars is there is no suport for audio, it can be jimmied to put audio in with a quicktime export and adding via imove, but should be easier and all within the app.

Toast 5 - very good burning app

Dragon burn 4- A very easy burning app, easier than toast but has a more kiddie feel, still great though

Nero for mac 4- was a great prog, but no loger supported so youll have to get an old copy and I dont know if it works with the new dvd-rw drives (prolly does though)

I'll add more if I think of them