MUST HAVE software for a new MacBook Pro

[Tex-Twil]

For everyone using CHROME. I use to use chrome on my windows/linux machine but i have strayed from it due to that it activated the nvidia 330m. Are you guys using it with the 2010 mbp? Do you not mind that the 330m is running while just browsing?

Do you know that you can force the Intel to be used with gfxCardStatus ?

 

[530farm]

I know that. But i would rather not have force intel just for a browser.

 

[mrsir2009]

CAFFIENE can't be forgotten!!

 

[Tex-Twil]

What is the free alternative of Cinch ? I used to have it but I forgot the name.

thx

 

[530farm]

some of the old free ones got canceled. Better touch tool includes the window snapping feature though and is free.

 

[Mickyfin]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/904106/

If you watch movies on an external monitor, download Plex. If you use fullscreen in Plex, you can still use the MBP, as only the external monitor will go full screen

Cool. Thanks for that, I didn't know this, but its damn useful for sure

 

[Tex-Twil]

some of the old free ones got canceled. Better touch tool includes the window snapping feature though and is free.

Ah right I forgot it was part of BTT.

 

[gikku]

Click to Flash
Ad Block
Xmarks

 

[Dozerrox]

What is the free alternative of Cinch ? I used to have it but I forgot the name.

thx

I think bettertouchtool does a good job of doing it.

 

[therealseebs]

- I am curious: Why do you (and apparently many others) find this utility necessary? Is it just for fun or do you really need to know all this stuff (CPU usage and so on)?

I don't know about "need", but I am likely to glance up at it when I am not sure why something's taking a long time. Glancing up and being able to see whether there's network traffic, whether the CPU is active, etcetera... I find this useful. Maybe not insanely useful, but $16 is pretty cheap.

 

[vant]

In regards to Office 2011 Beta3, after some searching I found a website that allowed me to download it. Search codez4mac and you will find what you need

 

[mac(maybe)]

For my side I would add:

YEMUZIP for creating PC-compatible archives without _MACOSX directories

MPEGSTREAMCLIP for exporting quicktime movies into a number of formats and sizes

CYBERDUCK ftp client

and then by bread 'n butter for my professional activity:

TEXSHOP
LATEXIT
PAPERS


for research papers, the ones you still have to write and the ones you must still read

 

[deadwulfe]

Handbrake + VLC

I switched from Chrome to Safari 5. I loved Chrome, but there were just a few things that irked me about it enough to give Safari 5 a chance.

Steam

 

[Dozerrox]

+1 for cyberduck.

I also love Gruml for RSS (forgot to mention before).

 

[bli625]

Adium - great client to centralize all the different social networking protocols.

Bowtie - always nice to have my iTunes track information on my desktop.

iStat Menus - it's a paid app now, but it's still very useful.

Perian - movies. cool.

Hazel - great for uninstalling apps.

Airfoil- tool to stream music around the house.

Nicecast - I use this when I want to share some music with my friends.

 

[JTToft]

I don't know about "need", but I am likely to glance up at it when I am not sure why something's taking a long time. Glancing up and being able to see whether there's network traffic, whether the CPU is active, etcetera... I find this useful. Maybe not insanely useful, but $16 is pretty cheap.

- Okay. Thanks for the explanation.

 

[emiljan]

Here are some of mine i use on a daily basis.

1. MacFusion (mounts ftp server as disk in finder)

2. CarbonCopyCloner (Free Backup app)

3. Dropbox (Online Backup)

4. BBedit (TextWrangler if you like free)

5. Cyberduck (Free FTP Client)

 

[Lola M]

Thank you mynewromantica for the tips! Im mentally installing Facebook notifier.
Correction: Thank you mynewromantica for starting this discussion and the tips. Thank you everyone else for the tips

 

[TxMacAddict]

It doesn't look like anybody has mentioned Paragon NTFS or NTFS-3G to enable reading/writing to NTFS drives. Really helpful if you are using Bootcamp/Windows 7 so you can send files back and forth across the partitions and will let you read/write to any external drive you may come across.

I didn't realize the usefulness until I started using WBFS manager which is Windows only. Although when I'm in Windows I can't wait to get back to OS X!