Mac Apps thread

[Claus31000]

but the fact non the less.......the guys behind mac themselves made it possible to run windows on your machines....Mac or PC ...i think if u cook that question down ...then it's back from the good old days when a pc was more of a txt based editor...today with all those fine or less fine OS....many people choose a pc...more programmes to choose from and so so on.....Hats off to you guys who stick with mac.....hats off to the guys playing around with linux and other OS as well.....
Think most people are stuck with windows something..it is almost preinstalled on any PC or notebook you buy....and the wont lower the price if u don't want anything preinstalled so i've heard any way........So Mac , PC the difference is only in the heart of the users....Both platforms seem to get whatever task the user want done....just in different ways......I'll stick to my PC Notebook......


Claus

[buad hai]

Originally Posted by Claus31000

So Mac , PC the difference is only in the heart of the users....

Well said Claus. Too bad it's a message that BF can't get his head around.

[melvbot]

if you havent heard of it already lookout for macheist.
They do shareware bundles every now and again.currently doing a bundle for $49 for 12 apps.Last one was good I got Pixelmator,Cha Ching,Cover Sutra,App Zapper,1 Password and a bunch of others for £25.Bargain

[Butterfly]

Originally Posted by buad hai

Too bad it's a message that BF can't get his head around.

too bad you can't your head outside the MacOS, have you tried Unbuntu Linux for Macs ? quite good I was told

[The Gentleman Scamp]

I knew a guy in the UK who drove a Vauxhall Nova and was always slagging off my neighbours Masarati saying it was just for show and was too expensive.

I think he was jealous deep down.

[cimboc]

To get things back on topic he's a couple more.

Audacity - Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder
Used to record and edit sounds.

Azureus - Azureus Now Powers Vuze - High Definition Movies and Videos
Great Mac BitTorrent Client for beginners through to advanced (although I think everyone knows this one already).

[nikster]

[Note: I am not providing links - you have Google, use it]

I should really get back to exploring QuickSilver. The stuff you can do with this program is amazing.

I use Adium for YM and AOL chat, works very well. Don't use MSN so don't know about that, but Azureus is based on a widely used open source instant messaging library so if MSN doesn't work it will be fixed fairly soon.

iPulse for system info. I have now learnt to read the initially mystifying display and it's really a bit like a pulse. I can see the vital signs in an instant. Whenever the machine slows down, I glance at iPulse to see what's causing it.

MenuMeters - MenuMeters has a ton of options you need to turn off to make it not annoying. But it provides an excellent textual display of Tx/Rx network throughput right in the menu bar. This is extremely useful because in Thailand, I find myself judging the quality of a connection almost constantly and this makes it very easy. iPulse can do this too but it shows colored bars - pretty, but not nearly as useful.

Azureus, in my tests the fastest BT client, and the one with the most options. I don't get the whole "Vuze" thing, I always just switch to advanced to make it go away - I think it's possible to get Azureus without that, if anyone knows how plz let me know.

I also use Miro with TV-rss for TV shows. It's super nice, you can search, download, and consume all in one very simple interface. The problem with Miro is it's not as reliable as Azureus about surviving the constant connection outages as one experiences in this country.

Didn't know there were still "Mac haters" out there. How quaint. Here's a newsflash: It's 2008 and the OS wars are long over. Whatever may or may not have been true about Macs 10 years ago, it's not true anymore.

One reason I love using Macs is the actually the available software - lots of stuff that has only sub-par equivalents on Windows. There are certain things, iPulse and MenuMeters, Quicksilver or even just Spotlight, that don't exist on Windows. For whatever reason. Oh, how about a decent mail client? Thunderbird is as good as it gets on Windows...

[melvbot]

For site building theres an app called Flux. Its based on CSS rather than tables.I cant quite figure it out yet but I think its made by a couple of English guys

The Escapers

[melvbot]

Im getting a bit pissed off with Safari.Since the last update Im getting loads of "cant open page due to bad sever response".Anyone else or is it just me?

[MeMock]

I get a warning from safari everytime I open the programme but I just click ok and then it runs fine.

[buad hai]

I'm now using Transmission as a bit torrent client. Much smaller cpu footprint than Azureus. Not quite as feature-full but does the job.

[melvbot]

Originally Posted by MeMock

I get a warning from safari everytime I open the programme but I just click ok and then it runs fine.

Whats the warning?

Been using transmission for a while.Works fine for the amount of stuff I d/l .I tried azureus on windows and couldnt get on with it so never bothered on a Mac.

[cimboc]

Just went searching for a newbie - I want to backup a few DVD's to my ext hdd.

Found this HandBrake looks to be quite good so will give it a whirl over the next few days.

[melvbot]

Its not really an app as such but I find this pretty useful if you use Safari

Clicky

[melvbot]

Ive used this for a while and have nothing but praise for it

Xslimmer - Your Mac, on a Diet!

Strips all the unwanted code/languages out of apps. If you have a lot of UB apps it can reclaim a fair bit of disk space

[melvbot]

Found a funky little app if you do any web design, logo's, banners etc

Art Text - Where Text Becomes an Art

Ive used it to make a few buttons etc and the results came out pretty good. Good range of things you can tweak to modify text,buttons or whatever you fancy.

[cimboc]

Originally Posted by melvbot

Ive used this for a while and have nothing but praise for it

Xslimmer - Your Mac, on a Diet!

Strips all the unwanted code/languages out of apps. If you have a lot of UB apps it can reclaim a fair bit of disk space

Holly batman I just downloaded this and it tells me it can reduce my applications by nearly 3gb

Now the question is do I buy it? the free component is only 50mb I hate buying stuff

[melvbot]

$13 or £6 odd quids cheap. Ive used it for a while and with the amount of apps I buy/test/install its been a keeper. If youve got a massive HDD might not need it but there are some real fat apps out there that I like having the disk space back from.

[cimboc]

With 120gb on my hdd I'm running with about 20gb up my sleeve

I recently got and external firewire 500gb hdd for less than 50c per gig (I was stoked) so I guess I really need to start moving a lot of stuff over to it rather than just using it for backup and ripped movies....

[melvbot]

Ive only just started to use this but it looks like a good little app

Sidenote

If you make a lot of notes (me) or use stickies this is a good app to have. It sits at the side of your screen and appears/disappears like the dock, move the mouse to the edge of the screen and it pops out or you can assign it a hotkey. I prefer the hotkey as I cant seem to get it to stay on top so when another apps open you dont have to switch to it with expose or whatever. Its small,its freeware and its made by a French bloke but it seems to work.