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Macbook Pro 2.53 nice, brand new and clean... what would YOUR top ten apps be?

i_never_existed

i_never_existed

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Hi there everyone.

So, I bit the bullet and upgraded my black MacBook with it's amazingly burnt out screen and bought the new 2.53 unibody MacBook Pro.

It's so nice when you have a clean, fast, new computer... anyway.

Now I have decided NOT to use my time machine to pass everything over, instead I am choosing to get rid of various apps that in truth I hardly ever use.

If it was your choice, what ten apps would you NEED to put on your new MacBook Pro?

Let me know.
 
-iWork '09
-iLife, I still have '06
-iTunes Library
-VMware Fusion
-my school email software
-Firefox, which you can just download. So it doesnt need to be transfered
-iPhoto Library
-all of the standard apps that came with my Mac

That probably goes well over 10 apps, but I would need all of them to live.
 
Firefox
iWork '09
Photoshop
Final Cut
Toast
VLC
Schoolhouse
Stuffit Expander
RAR Expander
Adium (I wouldn't install this, but I know others will recommend it so I'm just adding it to the list)
 
Slapbook

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22148

allows you to move webpages backwards/forwards and change spaces and windows etc simply by tapping your laptop on the left or right side using the Macbooks internal accelerometer (motion sensor).

Apparantly the accelerometer has loads of uses but this is by far my favourite.
 
iWork
Omnigraffle
VLC
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Aperture
Transmission
Colloquy
NetNewsWire
Cyberduck
Evernote
1Password
 
VLC - for playing any formated video expect Real format
Audium - for multi chat usage
UnrarX - for compressing or uncompressing files
visualHub - for converting video files to ipod or iphone format
transmission - for d/l pirated stuff
app delete - for deleting applications
Open Office - free replacement for M$office Iwor$
ilife09 - you will love it
Quicksilver - for launching applications
Cyber duck (if you have apple Tv) - STP client, for transferring files to Atv wirelessly
 
puma1552 said:
How about some short descriptions for each app?
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This is a damn fine idea...

Ok, let me define a little more everything.

Lets have descriptions on every app you write down... because this is also an amzing way to find out apps that maybe we didn't know about.

The other is that of course the Mac will have all apps that come pre-loaded when you buy it, so take for granted things like ilife/iwork/itunes/etc...

I was thinking 3rd party.

My list I think would have to be...

1. CS4 (No need for a description as I am sure that EVERYONE knows what this is... and it's a must as I work in publicity)

2. Submerge (For burning subtitles into iphone formatted movies. My girl is Chilean and needs Spanish subtitles)

3. Transmit (FTP Client. After many many tries of different apps... transmit has to be the easiest, and cleanest client I could have ever wished for)

4. VLC (For all those movies that are not quicktime friendly)

5. Quicksilver (I mean come on.... it's just so beautiful)

6. NewsNetWire (RSS Reader. Use this due to the lovely fact that it sync's automatically with my iphone... so I don't end up reading the same bits of news twice)

7. Vuze (Bit Torrent Client. Just because I find it very nicely designed, and easy to use in comparison with other clients)

8. Mercury Messenger (Because it supports VIDEO... thank you very much Microsoft!!)

9. Stuffit (For all those zipped files we down/upload.

10. Toast (CD/DVD burning at its best)

So... what are yours???
 
Flip4Mac - play .wmv files right from quicktime

iLife '09 - awesome new program suite from apple

Limewire - share music

MP3 Trimmer - i make ringtones to email to my phone

CrossOver - run applications without the need to install winblows

Transmission - torrents and file transfers

Senuti - return music from your iPod to the computer

DotMatrix - spice up boring photobooth snapshots

MacTracker - see the specifications of any Apple product... any product

Verbalize - make your mac speak; give you the power to torment others
 
-MS Office
-VLC
-Adobe PS
-Anki
-latex
-Logic Studio
-Native Instruments Kontakt, Battery, Absynth
-Adium
-Firefox
-Quicksilver
 
vmware fusion - for windows (can even run your boot camp partition from inside OS X)

adium - instant messaging

skype - video messaging/calling

vlc - media player

itunes
utorrent - bittorrent. only a beta for OS X right now, but i still like it better than transmission

fluid - site specific webkit browser... i love having gmail, college email, facebook, google reader in separate windows

microsoft word - im a college student, and this is far more convenient than openoffice or neooffice

firefox/opera - self-explanatory

1password - password manager, ultra secure. i really can't live without it

handbrake - video converter, took over the reigns from visualhub once that went under... sadly, i paid for visualhub a month or two before it shut down, but handbrake is great

PS3mediaserver - for streaming those utorrent downloads to my HDTV

pwnage tool - to take care of the iphone stuff

betterzip - best archive/unarchiving program out there

caffeine - another one i can't live without. puts a coffee cup icon in your menubar; click it to fill it up when you don't want your computer to sleep or go into screensaver temporarily

clamxav - antivirus, just to be safe

cleanapp - thorough app uninstaller

coconut battery - battery health/age information

istat pro/menubar - computer statistics in your menubar, dashboard, or even embedded onto your desktop

superduper - great backup tool

dropbox - webdav/file sync

dupin - powerful itunes library manager

skim - better than preview, allows annotation

winclone - along with superduper, very useful

that was more than 10. sorry.
 
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crazyrog17 said:
Flip4Mac - play .wmv files right from quicktime

iLife '09 - awesome new program suite from apple

Limewire - share music

MP3 Trimmer - i make ringtones to email to my phone

CrossOver - run applications without the need to install winblows

Transmission - torrents and file transfers

Senuti - return music from your iPod to the computer

DotMatrix - spice up boring photobooth snapshots

MacTracker - see the specifications of any Apple product... any product

Verbalize - make your mac speak; give you the power to torment others
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Arrggghh!!!

How did I forget flip4mac??!?!?

Has to be in there, you're 100% right!!
 
These apps represent 98% of my mbp usage:

vlc,
firefox,
transmission,
unarchiver, for RARs
iwork09
dreamweaver
photoshop
MS Remote Desktop Connection for managing my windows machines
 
- Office 2008
- Transmission
- EyeTV
- Final Cut
- VLC
- VisualHub
- Parallel's Desktop
- Adobe CS4 (in particular, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Photoshop)
- Boxee
- Guitar Pro
- InsomniaX (so you can run your Mac with the lid shut)
- iWork 09'
- The Unarchiver
- Transmit
- Skim (for viewing PDF's)

I need them all!
 
1. iWork '09-Keynote '09 is awesome
2. Vuze
3. VLC
4. Path Finder-has many more abilities than Finder
5. App Cleaner
6. CoconutBattery-displays info about your battery and computer
7. DockColor-allows you to customize the color of your Dock
8. DiskWarrior-(this really should be higher in the list, but I'm too lazy to move it :p)-directory de-frag utility
9. Drive Genius 2-another maintenance utility
10. Onyx-another maintenance utility lol, also allows you to customize various things, including text in the login window
11. EasyFind-for when Spotlight just doesn't cut it
12. Google Earth-who doesn't love it
13. Image Smith-allows you to re-size images while still keeping the quality
14. 1Password-self-explanatory
15. Pastor/Wallet/RapidoSerial-to store all those serial numbers
16. HandBrake-dvd ripper
17. Screenium/Snapz Pro X/Screenflow-screen recording software
18. TeamViewer-for remote support and access, also great for file sharing
19. XSlimmer-regains valuable space
20. Pacifist-allows you to extract installers without installing everything

These are not necessarily in the order I would choose them, I was just going through my applications folder lol. Add Adobe Creative Suite to the list also :p.
 
SHADO said:
8. DiskWarrior-(this really should be higher in the list, but I'm too lazy to move it :p)-directory de-frag utility
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Apple says defragmenting your hard drive when your using OS X Leopard actually does more harm than good, its only useful on a Windows operating system.
 
Final Cut
Photoshop
Lightroom
VLC
Word
Firefox
Msn
iTunes
uTorrent
Call of Duty
 
kastenbrust said:
Apple says defragmenting your hard drive when your using OS X Leopard actually does more harm than good, its only useful on a Windows operating system.
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Documentation? I don't doubt you but I'm sure it is an interesting read :D
 
1) EyeTV
2) Pages
3) Sarafi
4) uTorrent
5) iChat/Adiam (use ichat for video and adiam for text.)
6) iCal (Great for iPod Alerts)
7) Mail (with modified sounds. It does the old AOL style, "you've got mail." :-8) CyberDuck
9) iTunes
10) DashBoard

WebApps:
1)Google Reader
2) gMail
 
Sorry for the double.

iaymnu said:
Documentation? I don't doubt you but I'm sure it is an interesting read :D
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Do I need to optimize?

From Apple:
You probably won't need to optimize at all if you use Mac OS X. Here's why:

Hard disk capacity is generally much greater now than a few years ago. With more free space available, the file system doesn't need to fill up every "nook and cranny." Mac OS Extended formatting (HFS Plus) avoids reusing space from deleted files as much as possible, to avoid prematurely filling small areas of recently-freed space.
Mac OS X 10.2 and later includes delayed allocation for Mac OS X Extended-formatted volumes. This allows a number of small allocations to be combined into a single large allocation in one area of the disk.
Fragmentation was often caused by continually appending data to existing files, especially with resource forks. With faster hard drives and better caching, as well as the new application packaging format, many applications simply rewrite the entire file each time. Mac OS X 10.3 Panther can also automatically defragment such slow-growing files. This process is sometimes known as "Hot-File-Adaptive-Clustering."
Aggressive read-ahead and write-behind caching means that minor fragmentation has less effect on perceived system performance.
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