Just bought my first Mac!

[Reach9]

First of all, I feel like an idiot for not switching to Mac earlier.

The new MacBook Pro is phenomenal, and I could have not asked for more. Today i picked up the baseline 13" one because i'm starting another school year in university next month so i thought i'd go in fresh.

Btw, I don't see why people are complaining about the battery life, I'm getting 10:30hrs to 12:11hrs while typing this up after full charge. (bluetooth off, brightness at 25%, surfing the web, no backlight) I absolutely love the new battery, kudos to you Apple!
If anyone is hesitating about buying one, I say drop that and go for it, you won' regret the purchase.

Does anyone know of a plug in which removes Flash advertisements? And any nice and useful widgets i should download?

Pic:

 

[guydude193]

First off, congratulations! Secondly, here's a free Flash killer.

 

[HLdan]

Nice! And how did you get Microsoft Office 2011 when it hasn't been released yet?

 

[Jason Beck]

Nice! And how did you get Microsoft Office 2011 when it hasn't been released yet?

Probably same way I did.
Btw it's damn good!

 

[Rithem]

I need to get 2011 before school starts. Glad you like the MBP though! I don't really use widgets but for apps:

littlesnitch
dropbox
gfxcardstatus
quiksilver
vuze
vlc
skype
ventrilo
steam
photoshop cs5

those are the ones off the top of my head

 

[Lokrado]

out of curiosity, what are these?

 

[Jason Beck]

BetterTouchTool on the left

 

[stefan1975]

I need to get 2011 before school starts. Glad you like the MBP though! I don't really use widgets but for apps:

.....
photoshop cs5

i found that one a little too expensive for my taste, even with student/teacher discount it's €400 ... guess i will be going with iPhoto, the Gimp and adobe elements.

 

[Covart]

out of curiosity, what are these?

MacKeeper is the robot looking icon. Helps to clean up old files, duplicate files, etc...

 

[mofunk]

Congrats


Safari uses Extensions were you can remove ads in Facebook and youtube. Go to Safari - Safari Ext Gallery

 

[iAlexG]

out of curiosity, what are these?

The icon with the leaf is MindNode and the Notebook is NoteBook

 

[Reach9]

Thanks guys!

Yes, they are MindNode for mind mapping, and NoteBook for taking quick notes in class.

the Beta for Office 2011 is amazing, Microsoft did a great job and I can't wait to purchase it when the final version comes out!

 

[Reach9]

Hey guys I was just wondering what app is the best for keeping track of your system apart from MacKeeper?

 

[TopHatPlus]

out of curiosity, what are these?

widgets = apps kindof like ipod apps, but you use them on your dashboard

chord chart
calculator
unit converter
istat pro
movies
itunes lyrics
itunes control
address book
dictionary/thesaurus
calendar
stocks
weather

 

[Reach9]

Thanks TopHatPlus, that list helped a lot.

So i just calibrated my battery, and it ended up decreasing my battery life? This is crazy. I used to get 9hours+ easy while only web surfing at low brightness, and even if i had VMWare Fusion on I got 5hours. But now it seems everything went down by 2hours.
Is this normal?

If i re-calibrate it will I get my old battery life back? My Battery health is still 100%

 

[fcortese]

Maybe let your battery run all the way down and then re-charge it. Or maybe this will help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446

 

[scottacus]

Thanks TopHatPlus, that list helped a lot.

So i just calibrated my battery, and it ended up decreasing my battery life? This is crazy. I used to get 9hours+ easy while only web surfing at low brightness, and even if i had VMWare Fusion on I got 5hours. But now it seems everything went down by 2hours.
Is this normal?

If i re-calibrate it will I get my old battery life back? My Battery health is still 100%

Did you time it before to see if you were actually getting that long?

The battery life estimates you get before calibration are typically inaccurate and the post-calibration estimate you get is much more accurate. So it's possible the battery life estimates you are getting now are closer to what you can expect.

 

[Reach9]

Thanks guys! hmmm, i'm gonna calibrate it once again, because i'm only surfing the web without flash and i only have 7hours.
This time i will also time my battery life.

Btw, when i see other people's wallpapers they are all very smooth. Then when i download them and apply them as my wallpaper.. For some reason the plain wallpapers that i have look grainy on my MacBook Pro's display, and the ones with gradients are chopped, as in they are not smooth and look like rings instead of a smooth gradient.
How can i fix this?

 

[aeboi]

use the proper resolution for wallpapers

 

[Reach9]

do you mean i have to convert my current ones to 1280x800? And download only 1280x800 wallpapers?

 

[timhealey]

I need to get 2011 before school starts. Glad you like the MBP though! I don't really use widgets but for apps:


photoshop cs5

those are the ones off the top of my head

Is there a way to get that without buying the software?

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Is there a way to get that without buying the software?

lol

 

[mulo]

Is there a way to get that without buying the software?

You could just download a legal 30 day trial off adobes website

 

[Weshzu]

does anyone have a working bashflash program? I just got a mac book as well 2 days ago trying to get this program to work. Supposely its place on the menubar on top where the time and volume are located but i don't see anything.

 

[Reach9]

hey Weshzu, try searching up on Spoitlight, "Bash Flash" and then click on it, you should see a ring and an F inside it on your menu bar. Right click it and select "Open at LogIn" if you want.