New to Macbook Pro

[Orlandoech]

Hi everyone,

Im a freelance automotive photographer who has been a PC guy my entire life. I recently built a Hackintosh, then after hours of playing in Snow Leopard I decided I liked OS X better than Windows.

I decided then that I also wanted to be more mobile since I travel for photography and that being confined to my desktop actually started making my editing less productive. So I decided to part out my desktop to help fun my Macbook Pro 15" 2.3ghz. I then added a 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 and Kingston 1600mhz ram.

Im loving it so far. Any cool programs anyone suggest? I have already got and used SuperDuper!, MS Office, and some other stuff.

 

[clickclickw00t]

grab SMCfancontrol to control your fans and monitor your temps

 

[simsaladimbamba]

www.pure-mac.com
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[engaged44]

no specific app i can think of off the top of my head, but being a college student i love iwork. iwork>office any day really. obviously i use VLC player for my movies, littlesnitch to protect my computer.

also i love ilife being a musician but yeah that's all i can really think of!

welcome to the mac world man

 

[engaged44]

grab SMCfancontrol to control your fans and monitor your temps

of coarse this is mandatory to have

 

[wikus]

These:

Right Zoom: expands windows to full screen (green button by default doesnt do this)
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30591/right-zoom

Onyx: maintenance app that everyone should have.
http://www.macupdate.com/find/mac/onyx

Vox: simple and light on cpu/ram mp3 player because iTunes is bloat:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24852/vox

Handbrake: convert videos to mp4 or h264 (as well as rip DVDs)
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/12987/handbrake

Totalfinder: gives The Finder tabbed browsing and other controls
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33373/totalfinder

 

[Orlandoech]

These:

Right Zoom: expands windows to full screen (green button by default doesnt do this)
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30591/right-zoom

Onyx: maintenance app that everyone should have.
http://www.macupdate.com/find/mac/onyx

Vox: simple and light on cpu/ram mp3 player because iTunes is bloat:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24852/vox

Handbrake: convert videos to mp4 or h264 (as well as rip DVDs)
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/12987/handbrake

Totalfinder: gives The Finder tabbed browsing and other controls
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33373/totalfinder

Have handbrake already, gonna install the others, thanks!

 

[wikus]

Have handbrake already, gonna install the others, thanks!

They're all very small apps, the only issue is with TotalFinder as its a paid app (but worth the price as you use it all the time). I can't see myself not using TotalFinder anymore. Tabbed browsing like Chrome absolutely rocks.