Program Equivalents, New to Mac

[LightMast]

Okay folks, any help here would be great. I've got a few programs here I use freuently on PC, wondering what you would recommend as equiv. for my new mac:

DVD Decrypter- Convert DVD-9 to DVD-5
Daemon Tools- Mount CD and DVD images from hard drive
WSFTP- FTP Program
Nero- Burning Program


Everything else I run is available for Mac. Do I need to run something like ad-aware for spyware? I dont click the monkey in the sidebar ads

 

[SilentPanda]

DVD Decrypter- DVD2OneX will squish DVD's. If you want to convert to a more compressed non-dvd type, Handbrake is usually used.

Daemon Tools- Built into the OS.

WSFTP- Transmit is one.

Nero- Toast

Don't worry about ad-ware and spy-ware...

 

[PlaceofDis]

FTP - Cyberduck (free) or Transmit (better but not free)

Burning - OS X has built in burning, but for more advanced look into Toast, Disco, and Burn(? i think thats its name)

for disk images.. Disk Utility can mount them, as can the finder without a problem (disk utility is in Applications>Utilities) and toast can mount them as well.

 

[LightMast]

Thanks guys.....how about one more:

Winrar- Archive and extraction tool

 

[Blue Velvet]

Winrar- Archive and extraction tool

Built-in un/zipping in OS X

 

[SilentPanda]

Winrar- Archive and extraction tool

Built in...

Stuff It would be the one to get probably if you needed something more.

 

[djstarrock]

Thanks guys.....how about one more:

Winrar- Archive and extraction tool

Also Stuffit expander can open more files.

 

[GimmeSlack12]

For Ads and stuff I find AdBlock for FireFox (same as PC) to be very useful. But as mentioned before there is no adware or spyware on Macs. Period.

 

[pixelbaker]

Thanks guys.....how about one more:

Winrar- Archive and extraction tool

The Unarchiver is what I use. It works well and includes support for some archives that OS X doesn't cover.

 

[Maxxx85]

I'm new to the OS as well just purchased the new MBP today. So i was also curious as to the adware/spyware question. How is it that this OS not get any adware into it? Thats really great that we don't have to worry about that stuff anymore. I was running "Spybot S&D" and "AD-Aware" a few times a week on my XP comp and always found new spyware/adware.

 

[wilfried]

I have however found tracking cookies left in my browser. Do you do anything about those, or are they not worth worrying about? Anti-adware programs took care of those on Windows, but I'm not using anti-adware software anymore.

 

[GimmeSlack12]

I'm new to the OS as well just purchased the new MBP today. So i was also curious as to the adware/spyware question. How is it that this OS not get any adware into it? Thats really great that we don't have to worry about that stuff anymore. I was running "Spybot S&D" and "AD-Aware" a few times a week on my XP comp and always found new spyware/adware.

No DirectX on Macs (I believe that is where most adware/malware attacks Windows). Please correct me if I'm wrong.