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GraceMolloy

macrumors regular
Original poster
Oct 28, 2006
162
4
Kentucky
So I was playing with my new baby (yes the computer) and installing some "necessary apps", and I thought I would ask for opinions on can't live without it type apps for the typical mac user.

Installed So Far
Firefox
Perian
Flip4mac
Skype for OSX
App Zapper
Handbrake
Mac the Ripper
Stuffit Expander
VLC

Anything else really good to have?

Specifically USENET binary applications.

On the windows side I am deeply in love with :
Newsleecher
QuickPAR
uTorrent
Tag&Rename


Any information would be appreciated

Thanks!
 

neonblue2

macrumors 6502a
Aug 25, 2006
523
0
Port Pirie, South Australia
GIMP - Graphics manipulation (like Photoshop)
Adium - MSN, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, etc
ffmpegX - Video/audio conversion
Shiira - Web browser of my choice, based on WebKit and faster than Safari
Aqua4iTunes - In case you don't like the look of iTunes 7
Audacity - Audio manipulation
Burn - Disc burning
Camino - Lightweight Mozilla web browser (like Firefox)
ClamXav - A/V program, only if you want to protect Windows computers
Disk Inventory X - Visual guide to your HDD
iSquint - Windows Media and FLV conversion (and iPod if you have one)
Onyx - System maintenance and optimisation
Transmission svn - Lightweight Bittorrent app (but is banned on some trackers)
 

Chaszmyr

macrumors 601
Aug 9, 2002
4,267
86
NetNewsWire - Shareware RSS aggregator... also available in a slimmed down freeware version
Handbrake - Freeware DVD ripper (Edit: that's probably what you meant when you said handbreak, actually)
Transmit - Shareware FTP client
 

ozontheroad

macrumors 6502
Aug 4, 2006
293
0
the reef
Popcorn ( i think Toast 7 does the same thing)

Quinn (tetris)

Pac the Man X

MacJanitor (daily - weekly and monthly maintenance scripts)

Maintenance (like Onyx - light version)
 
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