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Any Cool Apps/Tricks for Mac?
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You can find lists of essential applications in this thread, as well as these sites: here and here and here.....and here.
If you search the forums and don't find what you're looking for, just ask! There's lots of friendly help here! Enjoy your new Mac!
Apple - Find Out How online tutorials on many topics
Mac 101 a tour of the Mac OS X
Switch 101 a tutorial on the process of migrating to a Mac
Apple Support search Apple Support and the Knowledge Base
MRoogle for searching the forums with Google (always a good idea before posting new questions)
How to set up a quick right-click search of the MR forums.
MacRumors FAQ
MacRumors Rules
MacRumors Guides Very helpful stuff!
A list of the MR Forums (so you'll know which forum is best to post a new question)
Maximizing your MacRumors troubleshooting experience. (if you really need help, this is valuable to know!)
Apple Find Out How
Apple Keyboard Shortcuts
You can find lists of essential applications in this thread, as well as these sites: here and here and here.....and here.
If you search the forums and don't find what you're looking for, just ask! There's lots of friendly help here! Enjoy your new Mac!
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I love the app better touch tool for mouse gestures. Also lux deluxe is a cool o online rissk type game. Tinker tool is a good app for adjusting some hidden osx settings. Perian is good it's a package of QuickTime codecs. Flip4mac is a plugin for QuickTime to play wmv files. App delete is a nice utilty for deleting apps a bit more completely than osx does (deletes preferance files as well. Perian ntfs is a nice program that allows your mac to read and write to ntfs partitions which helps if you are sharing files between windows and mac. Vlc is a nice music player. Handbrake is good for video transcoding. Transmission is a nice torrent program. Frostwire is a very nice p2p program that also handles torrent files. And of course it's always a good idea to have either iWork or office for productivity type tasks
I love the app better touch tool for mouse gestures. Also lux deluxe is a cool o online rissk type game. Tinker tool is a good app for adjusting some hidden osx settings. Perian is good it's a package of QuickTime codecs. Flip4mac is a plugin for QuickTime to play wmv files. App delete is a nice utilty for deleting apps a bit more completely than osx does (deletes preferance files as well. Perian ntfs is a nice program that allows your mac to read and write to ntfs partitions which helps if you are sharing files between windows and mac. Vlc is a nice music player. Handbrake is good for video transcoding. Transmission is a nice torrent program. Frostwire is a very nice p2p program that also handles torrent files. And of course it's always a good idea to have either iWork or office for productivity type tasks
