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Must Have Apps !

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Deshke

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What are the MUST HAVE apps for Mac OS X in your opinion ?

What apps makes your life more comfortable ? Or are just cool ...


Tell me :) SPEAK UP !
 
Snowtape - Great radio app
Spotify - Music streaming
MSN v.8 - This new version actually works with the Mac and webcam at last
EyeTV - For Streaming live TV remotely from my home Mac or work Mac
Office 2011 - In particular I use Outlook for my emails and calendar, for some reason I have never adopted Apple's iCal or Mail, I don't know why, I just prefer Outlook for this kind of thing.
 
Firefox
VLC
Graphic Converter 6.x (7 screwed up the slideshow, so I won't upgrade until they put that functionality back in)
Openoffice
Lux Deluxe
EyeTV
 
LOL (sorry for shout)

:D thanks guys, i will look into this ones :) im also new at mac os x so wanted to know the handy apps ;)


and how about Openoffice vs Office for mac, the only thing that is gonnahelp me for choosing wich one it , wich one uses the least battery




edit : Cocunut Battery : do you really see some improvements? :)
 
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Firefox
Espresso
Photoshop
Mail
Minecraft

:D

Deshke said:
LOL (sorry for shout)
and how about Openoffice vs Office for mac, the only thing that is gonnahelp me for choosing wich one it , wich one uses the least battery
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Quite honestly, Apple iWork is the best office suite apart from Microsoft Office for Mac (which, in my opinion, surpasses MS Office for PC!).

OpenOffice is super though, but I like Google Docs. You should take a look at both OpenOffice and Google Docs and see which one you like.



edit : Cocunut Battery : do you really see some improvements? :)
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Coconut Battery doesn't change the way the battery operates, it just shows you live statistics about the battery. It will not increase battery performance by any means.
 
oke thx :) hmm google docs, i always thought google docs were basic programs for simpel editing ?


i really can't deside what to install :p openoffice vs office for mac or iWork (what is goign to be updated shortly :) )
 
My opinions;

iChat - supports chating, video conference, file transfer, and screen sharing with AIM, ICQ, MobileMe, gtalk, Facebook, and all other Jabber services. (my personal IMer.)

Microsoft Messenger:Mac - If your contacts prefer MS Live Messenger and Yahoo Chat AND/OR your company uses that MS IM server, (MS Messenger and Yahoo users can cross talk.)

Yahoo chat! - If your contacts prefer Yahoo Chat and MS Live Messenger, (MS Live Messenger and Yahoo chat users can cross talk.)

Skype - If your contacts prefer Skype. Just use the Skype official client.

Perian - It will enable Quicktime to play almost anything.

VLC - It will play anything. Also needed for DVD reading of handbrake

Handbrake - Useful to convert DVD to iTunes

Mac Office 2011 - most people like it for office apps, personally, (I find it difficult to work with and extremely over-priced. However, I seem to be in the minority. I perfer mail.app, contacts.app, iCal, + iWork)

Openoffice - some people like OO. The price is excellent. (As I mentioned, I prefer the Apple products)

Google Docs - some people prefer it. (I'm just not that cloud suave)

Firefox - If you like Firefox, (I use Safari on mac, chrome on anything else. Xmarks to sync my bookmarks between them)

chrome - If you like Chrome, (see above)

Xmarks - If you use more then one computer, Operating system, or browser it'll keep your bookmarks in sync

Dropbox - keeps a couple gigs of files synced across multiple machines, (windows, linux, mac, iphone, web.)

ClickToFlash - If you need flash installed, CTF will disable most of the junk pop-ups you'll come across.

Cyberduck - GUI (S)FTP client

iPhoto - awesome photo management (for personal use, not good for professional use)

keka - for uncompressing files in pretty much any format

Parallels Desktop - if you need virtual machines (you get sometimes get it on sale for really cheap, otherwise get VirtualBox)

VirtualBox - opensource virtualization software from Oracle

MS Remote Desktop Connection for Mac - best RDP software made for doing RDP connections to anything MS.

Smultron - for editing UNIX files

MacFUSE - for reading/writing other filesystems (you know if you need this)
 
Deshke said:
LOL (sorry for shout)

:D thanks guys, i will look into this ones :) im also new at mac os x so wanted to know the handy apps ;)
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You would find much more information in the appropriate forum. This is the Macbook Air forum, head over to the OSX forum for this type of information.
 
Deshke said:
oke thx :) hmm google docs, i always thought google docs were basic programs for simpel editing ?


i really can't deside what to install :p openoffice vs office for mac or iWork (what is goign to be updated shortly :) )
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iWork is very likely to see an update next month. MS office for mac just came out last month, and the next OpenOffice will be LibreOffice. (currently in RC1.)
 
logandzwon said:
iWork is very likely to see an update next month. MS office for mac just came out last month, and the next OpenOffice will be LibreOffice. (currently in RC1.)
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I do understand that waiting for an iWork update could generally be considered to be wise, but seriously: How many users do actually use all the features of the already available office suits? For writing letters I could still use my old copy of Office 2000 without feeling limited.

Maybe some new keynote features could be interesting for people who rely on great presentations. I am employed as a trainer in the field of photography and I have to use PowerPoint at work, but I try to keep the usage of presentation materials at a minimum and like to improvise a lot - depending on the audience.

Maybe some new features in keynote could be interesting for businesses. But for private usage I really don't see the big improvements. Maybe the next iWork will prove me wrong.

However, I really would like to know which of the many features of office suits you are using. Maybe I could improve my office experience. ;)
 
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Little Snitch: A firewall type that monitors and lets you set what has outgoing connections. Great for catching those apps that trying to send stuff home even though you wouldn't know it without little snitch.
 
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Little Snitch: A firewall type that monitors and lets you set what has outgoing connections. Great for catching those apps that trying to send stuff home even though you wouldn't know it without little snitch.
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Alright , Nice one :) thx
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2 like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C134 Safari/6533.18.5)

Unfortunately, only about half of the aforementioned applications will be allowed into the MAS.
 
kas23 said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2 like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C134 Safari/6533.18.5)

Unfortunately, only about half of the aforementioned applications will be allowed into the MAS.
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True. Good thing we can still install apps like normal.
 
Adium - Chat
Cord - RDP
Colloquy - IRC
Dropbox - tho not nearly as much anymore since the MBA goes everywhere with me
PDANet - free droid tethering.
InsomniaX - for when i need to close the lid WITHOUT dropping all my sessions
 
The just released UltraEdit for Mac.
MS Office
iLife of course.
1Password
VMWare Fusion (just in case you need to run windows)
 
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