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What are your MUST HAVE applications for your MBP??

Waltr (great app, changes almost any format video on the fly to iPad, no more laborious handbrake to iTunes)

Scrivener and iA Writer

Skype and iMessages.


Lots of others I use have already been mentioned.
 
With regards to people who are reading this thread looking for exciting new apps: remember to write a couple of lines about what the apps do and why you can't live without them.
 
bds120 said:
So I am getting prepared for my new 2015 MBP to arrive.

Key apps I have used since getting my 2008 MBP are

  1. Trim Enabler
  2. Caffeine
  3. NoSleep
  4. Office 2011
  5. VLC Player
  6. Adobe CS6
  7. LibreOffice
  8. TrueCrypt
  9. VirtualBox

What are you apps that you use? I am going to be looking for a good video editor. I am also going to be looking for Password Application something like Passwd Safe
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What a weird asortment of apps.
 
Meister said:
What a weird asortment of apps.
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What's weird? It was my first Mac and in all honesty I just used apps I needed. The list of apps I have received through this post has been great. I pick up my new Mac tomorrow.
 
bds120 said:
What's weird? It was my first Mac and in all honesty I just used apps I needed. The list of apps I have received through this post has been great. I pick up my new Mac tomorrow.
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They are just not 'must-have' for the fast majority of consumers.
 
Must haves:

Moom - Simple and very configurable window manager
Caffeine - Disables sleep on demand
Handbrake - Video encoding
VLC - Video playback
Aperture - Photo manager/editor
Pixelmator - Photo editor
MediaHuman Audio Converter - Free audio converter
BorderFX - Free export plugin for Aperture/iPhoto
 
Must have apps:

gimp - foto editing
openoffice - writing
blender - 3d modelling
cyberduck - to upload to ftp
xcode - code cool things
spritebuilder - code cool things with graphics
firestorm - 3d virtual reality world
hf interface - 3d virtual reality world
terminal - yep is still needed
sqlitestudio - to see what is in the coredata of xcode
vlc - video's
xnviewmp - browse photo's
brew - to install opensource software apple did not include to code
leap motion app home - no keyboard or mouse needed
kommodo edit - to edit files on remote servers
safari - to browse
skype - to chat
colloguy - to chat
setresx - to switch resolutions
 
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Im surprised "Monity" hasn't been mentioned, it can be found in the app store, its a system stat notification centre widget.
 
Bartender - declutter your menu bar

Menumeters - add monitoring tools to your menu bar

Itsycal - add a full calendar to the menu bar

ControlPlane - create configuration profiles for your Mac

Lightroom and Affinity Photo Beta - photo editing

Tweetdeck - Twitter

Spotify - music

Google Chrome

Slack - workplace communication

Textual - a good looking IRC client

Pocket - read later

iWork - because it's free

Office 2016 - because it's free in beta

Pushbullet - get notifications from your phone on your computer

MacID - use TouchID or a passcode to unlock your computer

Dropbox and infinit - file sharing

ETA: Tweetbot
 
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cookies! said:
Upgrade to Office 2016 bro. It's so much faster
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I don't want to take this thread too far into the weeds, but I have questions about the Office 2016 beta. Will it expire (in the short term) - what's the hassle of doing so? Trying to uninstall MS Office is one of the worse experiences I have ever encountered. I liken it to getting spilled paint out of shag carpeting. What's the effort to roll back the beta when the final product is released? And will there be a "for purchase" version or will it be a monthly subscription?

I ask these questions as an attempt to understand the process, what to expect and to limit my frustration later.
 
dfausty said:
I don't want to take this thread too far into the weeds, but I have questions about the Office 2016 beta. Will it expire (in the short term) - what's the hassle of doing so? Trying to uninstall MS Office is one of the worse experiences I have ever encountered. I liken it to getting spilled paint out of shag carpeting. What's the effort to roll back the beta when the final product is released? And will there be a "for purchase" version or will it be a monthly subscription?

I ask these questions as an attempt to understand the process, what to expect and to limit my frustration later.
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You can run them side by side and it will expire sometime later this year. Uninstall is pretty painless
 
cookies! said:
You can run them side by side and it will expire sometime later this year. Uninstall is pretty painless
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Can you elaborate on the uninstall process? It's simple to drag the icons from the Application folder to the trash, but there is quite a bit of stuff out in the Library folder. It is nearly impossible to distinguish the "parts" related to Office 2011 from the "parts" related to Office 2016. That's my main concern. Sadly, in its infinite wisdom, Microsoft has seen fit not to include an uninstaller app with this package.
 
dfausty said:
Can you elaborate on the uninstall process? It's simple to drag the icons from the Application folder to the trash, but there is quite a bit of stuff out in the Library folder. It is nearly impossible to distinguish the "parts" related to Office 2011 from the "parts" related to Office 2016. That's my main concern. Sadly, in its infinite wisdom, Microsoft has seen fit not to include an uninstaller app with this package.
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I wouldn't worry about that stuff. It barely takes up any space at all on modern laptops...
 
Caffeine
Thunderbird
Parallels Desktop: Run a Windows on Mac.
Skitch: a simple and efficient tool to make a screen snapshot.
Office 2016
 
yjchua95 said:
TrueCrypt is useless as it's discontinued and no longer receives security patches. I just enable FileVault and create AES-256 encrypted DMGs using Disk Utility.
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This guy... The third line in your signature explains everything.
TrueCrypt is still safe and not useless. Since no security hole has been found yet, it doesn't need any security patches.
 
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