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Best Apps Utilities and customisation for your new mac pro!?

jamesedward

jamesedward

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So your new mac pro is on its way! whats the best Apps Utilities and customisation to enjoy on it?

I totally recommend Connect360

http://www.nullriver.com/products/connect360

I use it daily, you can stream movies from movies folder over your wifi to a xbox360

if you someone that plugs you mac to TV a lot its totally worth it.
 
cool idea, i'd like to know whats like the "must have" apps to install.

i heard "little snitch" is kind of popular
 
harlem said:
cool idea, i'd like to know whats like the "must have" apps to install.

i heard "little snitch" is kind of popular
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It's useful for preventing applications from "calling home" when entering a serial number to activate them 😉
 
Jaxdialation said:
Gotcha, I was tactfully explaining that Mac Apps are Mac Apps. And this is covered over and over in that forum.

Is there any upgrade or application which is distinctive to the Pro?
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yeah obviously, Mac Apps are Mac Apps.

I thought seeing as many people such as myself have a nice new mac pro on the way that it might be interesting to see whats out there to utilise there new purchase
 
Vylen said:
It's useful for preventing applications from "calling home" when entering a serial number to activate them 😉
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re Little SNitch: In general, its nice to have something sniffing your network looking for network transfers. Even if your software is legit, this can be really useful finding spyware, etc. etc.
 
I don't think that there are any apps that are special for the Pro.

Anyway, Little Snitch, CCC for bootable backups and Dropbox are on all my computers. Very useful tools.
 
Another vote for iStat Menu. Nothing better than seeing little graphs of all your cores processing like crazy.
 
mism said:
Another vote for iStat Menu. Nothing better than seeing little graphs of all your cores processing like crazy.
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That's a lot of money for watching some little graphs about CPU utilisation, especially considering that iStat Pro for the dashboard is free. 😉
 
Transporteur said:
That's a lot of money for watching some little graphs about CPU utilisation, especially considering that iStat Pro for the dashboard is free. 😉
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Having just spent £4289 on a Mac I don't think £10 counts as a lot of money 😉

I believe Menu Meters is another free alternative, not tried it as yet.
 
Must-have app's for me:

SuperDuper

Default Folder X

Max

MacTheRipper

Toast Titanium*

*This might not be useful to some, but I work in the video industry, so it's a swiss army app for me. I use it constantly for making and burning DVD disc images. You can also batch export various video formats. For personal use, it's great for archiving DVD movies. You can easily burn directly from a VIDEO_TS folder and merge VIDEO_TS folders, copy/make a disc image, shrink, etc. You need MacTheRipper if you're backing up your protected DVD's, though. Oh another thing...Toast muxes MPEG-2 and ac3 files (without re-encoding) which is sweet.
 
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