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What do you use your macs for?

ThisIsMyName

ThisIsMyName

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Jan 11, 2008
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New Jersey
All I do is simple photo editing(photoshop), surfing the web(firefox), and for homework.(microsoft office) and to feel good that im not using a pc (finder)
 
P0rn...(Rarely)... Ummm, Photo Editing (Adobe Photoshop), internet (Safari), e-mail(.mac), instant message (ichat), music (itunes).

I need to get iWork...
 
Internet(Safari), Word Processing(Pages), Music(iTunes), Calendar(iCal) on a daily basis

Also Photos(iPhoto), Video Editing(iMovie), Instant Messaging(iChat) sometimes....maybe some spreadsheets(Numbers) or slideshows(Keynote)
 
On a daily to weekly basis:
  • Office Mac (Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
  • Office Windows (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Access)
  • Internet (Safari and IE)
  • Email (Mail)
  • Contact Manager (Address Book)
  • Calendar (CCPlus via Windows)
  • Photos (iPhoto)
  • Chat (iChat & Skype)
  • Music (iTunes)
  • ToDos (OmniPlus)
  • Watching DVDs (DVD Player)
  • Backing up DVDs (MTR, DVD2OneX & Toast)
  • Creating movies (iMovie)
  • Creating DVDs (iDVD)
  • Playing with iWork (Pages, Numbers & Keynote)
  • Capture screen shots (Grab)
 
  • Listen to music
  • Watch movies
  • Surf the web
  • Chat
  • Light audio editing
  • Office apps
  • Light gamin
 
Blogging: Marsedit and Packrat
Finances: (Cha-Ching)
News: (NetNewsWire)
Development: (SkEdit, Cyberduck, CSSEdit)
Web Browsing (Safari, Firefox, Camino)
Email (Mail)
Other (a ton of apps)
 
Internet (Safari)
Music (iTunes)
Picture (iPhoto)
Trying to keep myself occupied (PhotoBooth)
I made a DVD once....
 
Internet and homework (Safari)
Instant messaging (Microsoft Messenger)
Downloading and managing music (iTunes)
Managing and editing photos (iPhoto)
Taking random photos (Photo Booth)
Checking, receiving and sending e-mail (Mail)
Typing up assignments, letters and creating powerpoint presentations (NeoOffice)
Creating and editing songs (GarageBand)
Creating home movies (iMovie HD)
 
Organizing and posting pictures: iPhoto - Photoshop - Flickr - web forums
Uploading audio; analog to digital conversion: iMic - Final Vinyl - Garageband - iTunes
Email: Mail
Web: Firefox - Opera - Safari
Usenet: Thunderbird
Open Office
Office
iMovie
iDvd and Disk utility for cd and dvd backup and iso disc image copies.
Less programming as time goes on. None at all on my main Mac.
Google Earth
 
Fun
- News & Political Updates (Mostly RealClearPolitics.com)
- Social Networking (Mostly Digg but Avoid Politics = Too Liberal)
- Reading Entertainment Blogs (Neatorama & can't Avoid lolcats)
- Random Web Surfing (Safari)
- Adium (MSN)
- Music (iTunes & Last.fm)
- DVD Player

Work
- Graphics Design (Photoshop)
- iPhone Application Programming (XCode & Interface Builder)
- iPhone Simulator
- Email
- Excel (whimper)
- Internet (Safari & Firefox [Firebug > Drosera])
- Image Capture (Jing)
- Skype
- Transmit
- Terminal
- Dreamweaver (It's a nice, simple Code Editor)

Uni
- Microsoft Word
- Preview for Reading Materials
- Powerpoint & Keynote

Menubar Apps
- Visor
- Jumpcut
- Freeze Frame
- Time Machine
 
I'm a college student so I mainly use my mac for:

- Documents (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Keynote)
- Web Browsing (Safari, Camino)
- E-Mail (Mail)
- Appointment Calendar (iCal)
- Instant Messenger (iChat, Adium)
- Photos (iPhoto)
- Entertainment (iTunes, DVD Player)
 
Macbook Pro

  • Listen to music
  • Watch movies
  • Surf the web
  • Chat
  • iweb
  • Email


Macbook

  • Listen to music
  • Surf the web
  • Vmware Fusion - So i can take it to work

PowerBook

  • Listen to music
  • Surf the web
 
MAC PRO:
  • Editing Vids
  • Photoshopping Digital Pics from D300
  • Watching Movies/TV Shows
  • Email & Web
  • MSN
  • VPN & Cord to my work (THo mostly dont use Cord as I ssh everywhere)
  • Coding (C, PHP, Java)
  • Learning - new stuff in Unix, Computing in general
MAC BOOK AIR:
  • Web Trawling
  • Watching Movies/TV Shows
  • MSN
  • ssh'ing to work when I cant be arsed to fire up the Pro
 
Work: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat pro, a little Cinema 4D, NeoOffice, iWork, FontExplorer X

Contact: Mail, Adium, Skype

Fun: Garageband, iMovie, iPhoto, Photo Booth

Entertain: iTunes, VLC, Handbrake

Play: Spore & World of Warcraft at the moment

General: iCal, Firefox & various little helpers
 
Mainly I use my MacBook for checking Mail (Apple's app plus FirstClass), heavy web browsing, occasionally on iChat (rarely video conferencing), iCal, and iTunes. So my applications that are almost always open are:
  • Mail
  • FirstClass
  • Safari
  • iChat
  • iCal
  • iTunes

But at school we are trying to convince the administration to approve the budget to install a MacPro in the theatre. We do enough presentation work,audio work and recording in their to warrant having one, plus we need a computer that can power at least 2 displays.
 
Apps I use daily:
- Safari & Mail (the first to open in the morning)
- Photoshop (CS3)
- iTunes

Weekly basis:
- Firefox
- Firefox/XP
- IE 6 & 7
- WinXP (VMWare Fusion)
- Smultron (Dreamweaver is just way too big and dumb for me)
- Transmit
- Flash CS3
- Illustrator CS3

I'm sure there's one two others...
 
Safari, Mail, iCal, iTunes, Address Book etc.

iPhoto, Final Cut, Garageband all get occasional use.

More than my XP machine which is just a gaming platform for me.
 
It's my main computer

Writing - MS Word for Mac
iTunes - Set up for iPod
Safari - Internet surfing
Mail - For email
iCal - for scheduling
DVD drive - for watching movies
Card Games - only gaming of interest these days
Address Book - for keeping up with family and other contacts
 
Fun/Personal:
Safari
Mail
iTunes
Porn
QuickTime Pro (Waste of money BTW)

College:
iWork
MicroSoft Office 2008
 
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