What have you bought for your mac, and why?

[roadbloc]

• iWork and iLife due to my copies being illegal. Considered Aperture, but after playing with the demo, I decided that I don't really need the features it has over iPhoto.
• Peggle and Peggle Nights for my kid brother (and I don't mind them either).
• Mindnode. It's a great free app.
• Also downloaded that Sktechbook Express and soon deleted it after realising it was nothing but a pimped up version of MSPaint.

I don't have the PoS called Snow Leopard, but it doesn't look like there's much in that app store that you can't find outside of the app store walls...

You're living in 2009. Snow Leopard has been great and stable since 10.6.2. It ain't a pile of **** no more.

 

[mrblack927]

it doesn't look like there's much in that app store that you can't find outside of the app store walls...

That's going to start changing...

 

[Squadleader]

Angry Birds....Thats it !!

 

[colinwil]

Aperture. I've used iPhoto for a while with sucess, but couldn't resist Aperture at that price. Also I've just got my first DSLR (Pentax k-x)

Pixelmator. I saw the recomendations & reviews, so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm blown away by it - fantastic, pro application.

Evernote. I've been looking at something a bit more powerful than the regular 'notes' app on my iPhone & iPad that will syncronize with my macbook, so I thought I'd try it. Unfortuanately I'm not impressed at all so far. The Mac version allows you to apply rudimentary formatting to notes (fonts, bullet points, basic tables), but e iPad/iPhone versions don't - just raw, 'notes' style plain text. I'd imagined I'd be able to type notes, with formatting, in meetings and mail out an RTF at the end of the meeting - all from my iPad - but can't.

SketchMee. Turns photos into 'hand sketched' pictures. Not expensive, intriguing with good reviews. It has a simple UI, not many options, but the options it does have are powerful, well thought out and produce interesting results. You find yourself thinking - "wow - that's neat" a lot.

 

[Gokunama]

WannaAudio, an app not in the U.S. Mac iTunes Store. Extracts the audio from FLV and MP4 videos and converts them to MP4 with no loss in the audio quality. Very cool!

Edit: Actually, it is in the U.S. Mac AppStore, I was just looking under the wrong section.

 

[sharkync]

Sketchbook Pro - It's incredible and for $30 couldn't pass it up.

 

[KeithJenner]

Converseley I won't be using or supporting the Mac App Store via my MacBook Pro. The Mac App Store represents "Dumbing Down" the Mac.

All in the name of greed & sold to the public under the guise of "making it easier & safer". Typical hype and marketing by Apple. And yet they are right. This is one more move to make all Apple products so easy that any idiot can use them.

I am still intrigued as to why this is a bad thing. Honestly.

It seems that the poster isn't going to enlighten us, so can anyone else have a go?

 

[chrono1081]

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[chrono1081]

I bought Pixelmator because I do a ton with graphics (mostly for videogames and 3D models) and I wanted a fast image editing app on my MBA. My adobe photoshop license is maxed out and I didn't want to pay for another license just to have it on my MBA.

Pixelmator is fast..VERY fast and beats the hell out of Photoshop IMO for most of my uses (yes I know photoshop people will cry that photoshop has more features blah blah I've used Photoshop almost since it came out so I'm well aware of the differences).

I am still intrigued as to why this is a bad thing. Honestly.

It seems that the poster isn't going to enlighten us, so can anyone else have a go?

There is a common label for people like this and it starts with "village" and ends with some word that starts with an i....

Actually that poster really has no clue what they are talking about but is trying to sound intelligent and political.

The mac app store is an easy way for small developers to get their software known without having to worry about the costs and overhead associated with hosting a site. Its also a win for consumers because any mac you buy you can get your software on simply by downloading it and not worrying with license keys and limited seats and such.

The only people whining about the app store are the ones not bright enough to see what it really is.

 

[gglockner]

I was very pleasantly surprised by the Mac App Store. I've been on a shopping spree this week, getting a number of things that I've considered. I love the licensing terms, and the accessibility to upgrades. My biggest find so far has been Socialite - I've been looking for a tool that integrates Twitter and Facebook, and it's mostly what I've been hoping to find.

 

[solowmodel]

I haven't bought anything through the appstore yet.

My most recent purchases have been 1Password, which is very useful, and DaisyDisk, which is now on the AppStore and is quite useful.

 

[melpote]

I personally love the new app store. It has made me fall in love with my macbook all over again. I love Angry Birds and have it on my itouch 4, but it is sooooo much more fun on the 13" screen. And you can hear the birds and pigs so much better, too. I also bought Toki Tori.
I also got Twitter and Lyrica. I love that I have the lyrics on my itouch now. I never would have had the time to add all these lyrics on my own.

I don't mind that Apple is trying to make the mac more user-friendly. This is my first computer and I just got it a few months ago. I still don't have a clue about all the stuff it really does!

 

[nburwell]

I've only downloaded the Twitter for Mac app. I haven't really explored the Mac App Store in depth yet.

 

[taptapdev]

Chopper 2 on both Mac & iPhone - because it is only 99cents and I can use my iPhone 4 as a game controller.

 

[Gokunama]

SketchBook Pro, cause it's on sale, and I'll find a use for it later.

EasyWMV, converts various movie formats to QucickTime or iPhone friendly formats and sizes.

 

[CylonGlitch]

I purchased Pixelmator.

Why? Because I was logged in after downloading a free app; and wasn't paying attention and clicked "BUY". Next thing I knew, it was on my machine. DOH!

Not a big deal I had been considering buying it for a year now; so I guess I finally decided to do so. Subconsciously that is.

 

[mzd]

so far only doublepane because it was recommended here, seems useful, and was $0.99.

 

[JKK photography]

I find the App Store for my iPhone 4 excellent & useful.

Converseley I won't be using or supporting the Mac App Store via my MacBook Pro. The Mac App Store represents "Dumbing Down" the Mac.

All in the name of greed & sold to the public under the guise of "making it easier & safer". Typical hype and marketing by Apple. And yet they are right. This is one more move to make all Apple products so easy that any idiot can use them.

Apple & their Zealots get to do what they love best. Brag & Gloat.

"It's Magical & Revolutionary" oh get a grip.

So, because something is easier to do, quicker, and more convenient, that makes it a bad thing? So tell me, are the software repositories for Linux useless, and just dumb down every iteration of that OS?

I don't get your argument at all.

 

[trigonometry]

From the Mac App Store I got Pixelmator, Crosswords, Caffeine, Minutes, Kindle, Twitter, and Pages. From the web I've downloaded 1Password, Hazel, Things, Little Snitch, Ten Thumbs, Handbrake, and Tiny Umbrella.

 

[joehahn]

I really want to buy Aperture, but I'm not sure if i'll use it enough to justify the price tag that goes with it. I take photos as an on and off hobby and this seems like a really nice program to edit them...but I'm not sure about it quite yet. I'm sure that buy summer time (if it's the same price that is) I'll buy it.

 

[CylonGlitch]

I really want to buy Aperture, but I'm not sure if i'll use it enough to justify the price tag that goes with it. I take photos as an on and off hobby and this seems like a really nice program to edit them...but I'm not sure about it quite yet. I'm sure that buy summer time (if it's the same price that is) I'll buy it.

If I am not mistaken, Aperture is for organization and management not really for photo editing. I think it can do basic editing but that's about it. For editing I use Photoshop, or now, Pixelmator. Although Aperture does look like something I may want.

 

[joehahn]

If I am not mistaken, Aperture is for organization and management not really for photo editing. I think it can do basic editing but that's about it. For editing I use Photoshop, or now, Pixelmator. Although Aperture does look like something I may want.

By editing I didn't mean anything too intensive. I saw some stuff on apple's site where they were enhancing photos using aperture and it had a lot more stuff than iphoto did. Pixlemator seems like a really nice piece of software and it's an easier buy than aperture too! looks I'll get that one instead.

 

[pagansoul]

Evernote (free) so I have a link to my iphone, ipad, Macbook, and MacPro for my notes and lists.

iRingtone was on sale.

I'm thinking about iPhoto. Also Sketchbook but I don't use it much on my iPad so I may skip it.

 

[dXTC]

Free:

• Minesweeper. I loved this little time-waster back in the early days of Windows, and I'm glad to see it back.
• Sketchbook Express. Finally-- something that operates like MS Paint, but better, and for free. (I already had Pixelmator from a MacHeist bundle, for more detailed/specific photo correction.)
• Menu Pop. Haven't used it much yet, but I figured it would save me some mouse movement once I became accustomed to it.

Paid:

• Chopper 2. I got this mainly for the introductory price.

And finally, back to my fave Mac App Store app so far: Caffeine. It's free, it's tiny, and it does one thing really, really well: Prevents my iMac and MBP screens from sleeping and/or dimming, without having to make adjustments in System Preferences. I sometimes have two or three things going on, and I like being able to glance over at the progress on the other's screen from across the room. Snow Leopard's tendency to dim the screen after just a few minutes of inactivity, even when on AC power, has annoyed me ever since I got my new iMac. Caffeine solves that problem, elegantly.

EDIT: I forgot to mention my non-App-Store apps.
Pixelmator, as I mentioned above.
Sound Studio 3, for mastering of final audio mixdowns from my Windows-based audio workstation Cakewalk SONAR.
SnapzProX, for the rare video capture here and there.
Neon Tango, Wingnuts 2, and Tiki Magic Mini Golf, all games that came as part of MacUpdate or MacHeist bundles a couple of years ago.
There were several other apps from those bundles that I never really used, so I won't mention them here.

Oh, and of course the media powerhouse duo of HandBrake and VLC.

 

[chrismacguy]

Havent bought anything thru the app store. However Ive bought plenty of other Apps that should be there but arent there yet... (Adobe CS5, Final Cut Studio, Logic Studio)