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New PB! What are some cool apps?
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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?
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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..
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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?
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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.
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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!
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Adium
Snard
LimeWire
Toast
Office v.X
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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
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Watson
My favorite non-graphics app
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LauchBar
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Menu Meters 1.0
Galerie
Romeo (if you have a BT phone)
iBlog
Sidetrack
xnap
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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
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