My New Mac

[NikBar]

Hey all,

Well today after many months of asking questions and browsing the forums i finally made my first mac purchase😀

Its a blackbook 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo (the model before the new ones) it is brandnew and i purchased apple care and got mac office for free with it.

I cant be happier with it😀 im having so much fun eploring the new OS (comming from windows)

What can i download to make my mac experience better?

thanks

 

[Father Jack]

Congrats ... 🙂

Enjoy

FJ

 

[AdeFowler]

Nice one mate. Enjoy.

As time goes by you may find things on the www don't play. You should download and install Flash, RealPlayer and Flip4Mac.

VLC is a good video player for the things that Quicktime can't handle.

Find links and more at;

http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/

 

[72930]

There are some great lists here 🙂

 

[xpovos]

My recommendation: First, grab a copy of NetNewsWire (or NNW Lite, if you want the free version) and immediately subscribe to the OS X RSS feeds for MacUpdate and VersionTracker. I've discovered a lot of great software from those sites.

Another something cool that has gotten increasingly popular in the Mac world while taking a little longer to catch on with Windows users is the array of information management apps, such as Yojimbo (http://www.barebones.com) or EagleFiler (http://c-command.com/eaglefiler). If you have to deal with paper a lot and have a document scanner to digitize all that stuff (I recommend the Fujitsu SnanSnap for Mac; find it on Amazon), these library-oriented filing solutions pay for themselves the first time you have to quickly find information.

You can find a decent category-oriented, non-exhaustive listing of Mac software of various kinds at http://www.pure-mac.com.

Apple links to some pretty cool stuff sometimes, too. Go to http://www.apple.com and click on "Made4Mac".

What specific kinds of things do you plan to do with your new awesome machine? I might be able to point out a few good places for particular type stuff, niche software. (For example, I use LaTeX and Mathematica all the time.)

Hope this helps.

 

[heySparky]

What can i download to make my mac experience better?

I like These applications.

 

[Dynamyk]

Congrats I got the same model as you right after the updates happened and I couldn't be happier.

Check out Perian for Quicktime as well, as well as Adium for instant messaging.