First time Mac user - Apps to get?

How do you get your "legal and legit" apps?

And I would get Adium. Its an AIM client.

 

Flip4Mac is a must have if you watch any WMV videos online. I would also make sure you have growl because there are many apps that use it.

 

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=571489

 

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A few more you may want:

Adium - Same as Trillian, multi chat system
Office for Mac
Limewire - P2P
Flip4Mac - Helps with sites that gear video for Windows

 

mactheripper, rip dvds
acquisition, much beter than limewire imo.
toast titanium 8 -> burning software
VLC player - since quicktime can't expand =0 unless u go pro.
appzapper , easily delete and uninstall apps plus their hidden files
what size, to help you assess where you are allocating your space

 

Is there any particular kind of apps you're interested in? There's a lot of threads about great free, open source apps floating around if you use the search.

But as far as good $$ apps go?

I'd say invest in iWork unless you're tied to MS Office for work purposes. Even then, it's worth it for home use. It's a little lacking in Numbers vs. Excel, but Pages is a much better interface than Word, IMO, and Keynote blows Powerpoint away.

Hmm Toast 8 is also a good one.

Also, look into VMWare Fusion, too, unless you're already set on Parallels or can get it cheaper. Many find Fusion to be a better virtualization software. There are trials of both, though, so you can check out either before committing to one or the other. I use Fusion to run XP when I need it and it's worked great for me.

 

Terrible suggestion. If you're going to use P2P try out Acquisition or Frostwire.

As for the other necessities,

http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/ (if you have an iPod)

http://unrarx.sourceforge.net/

http://perian.org/

http://www.transmissionbt.com/

 

Handbrake
MarsEdit
NetNewsWire
Caffeine
Transmission
Camino

To name a few...

 

Quicktime can full screen in the non-Pro version, and i think it has been able to do so since 7.1 maybe

 

Yeah, regular Quicktime has been able to go fullscreen for a while...

I have VLC anyways for those files Quicktime handle, but Perian and Flip4Mac handles most of what I need, so I just use Quicktime usually.

 

Little Snitch.

 

oops, my bad, i guess i haven't been using quicktime since wayyy back.
i usually use vlc player thats why. sorry.

 

Great Link. Thanks.

 

ffmpegx -- video conversion tool converts from and to anything. Use it to import all sorts of video files into:
iMovie 06 -- forget about iMovie 08 if you'd like to edit video beyond the very basics.

 

Transmission
Perian
The Unarchiver

More Dashboard widgets!
Some games!

 

MacHacha.
http://homepage.mac.com/julifos/soft/machacha/index.html

 

Two Thumbs up for this link.

I'm a bit paranoid and I've heard that Little Snitch is a great app for people worried about traffic to and from a machine that is on 24/7. I guess they have a new version and its only $25? or so. I'm using comcast so I get a free firewall and antivirus from McCafee... the question is whether I should bother?

And if anyone would comment on Little Snitch's value and ease of use... that'd be helpful.

 

Well, i can tell you that the leopard compatible beta of LittleSnitch2 broke my leopard install. And yes, I realize that it is a beta, and there are concerns, but this was ridiculous. It wouldn't let Software Update run (so no updating the OS), Preview couldn't open images, and iPhoto wouldn't import from my camera... and those were just some of issues.

 

Stu...

Sounds like Beta-itis . That's always a risk, or at least it was in the MS/PC world. Many people waited until a noted stable version was released, and avoided all betas.

Hope that a few users of the current [working] version will jump in an offer an opinion.

Mike