[MojoRising022]

In the absence of major software releases, it seems the only apps worth getting excited about are shareware/freeware. Of all the programs I have purchased since I began using X (pre-public beta), all but one has been a small, reasonably priced shareware app.

I hope this is what we have to look forward to in the furture..it is these apps that will hopefully close the gap between macs and pc's (maybe just a little).

Of note, I'd have to reommend: Windowshade X, LaunchBar, Watson, Snapz Pro, anything by OmniGroup, Adium, Fire, and, of course, Graphic Converter, The most expensive of these costs about $60 - OmniGraffle)....not too bad at all.

What has caught your attention amongst the heap of shareware and freeware that has come out since March?

[Leonis]

Aren't Lightwave, Cinema, Maya, Freehand, Illustrator, Office, Painter majoy apps???????

[MojoRising022]

They are, but so is Photoshop, GoLive, InDesign, Pagemaker, Acrobat, Framemaker, QuarkXPress, Fireworks, Dreamweaver/Ultra Dev, Director, Flash, Palm Desktop, and Real Player...I think you get the point, though....Major releases have been few and far between and a lot of the apps we have come to rely on professionally over the last couple of years are not yet carbonized.

[genevish]

Definately Fire. The latest version does automatic language translation. Very cool. I showed a friend and he wished he had bought a PowerBook instead of the Sony Vaio.

[iNeusch]

Dragthing rulez

[boots]

This seems kinda dorky, but I actually went os X for the unix apps. The most used app I have is Gaussian. Then some of the modeling/visualization software that runs under the X environment.

I bought MS Office v.X because I could still get an academic discount. I haven't really used it much. (My wife likes the new word, but it's a little slow.)

I would love a copy of chemdraw/chem 3d that ran native OS X.

I'm still trying to find/compile the best opensource/free 3d visualization program for small molecules. Any tips or help would, of course, be appreciated.