What is your most used application?

[Wowzera]

Safari, iTunes, Mail and Transmission.

 

[Gray-Wolf]

Itunes
Safari
Freecell

 

[theMaccer]

Firefox
OpenOffice
Papers
R

 

[Digital Skunk]

Safari
Mail
Pages
Final Cut Pro
Motion
Daylite 3
Photoshop

Open em everyday.

 

[adamvk]

Archicad


and Safari.

I do use Mail a lot though too.

 

[SlasherDuff]

Firefox
Adium
iTunes

 

[MusicallySilent]

Webkit Browser
Adium
The Hit List
Quicksilver

 

[pkoch1]

In a rough order:

Quicksilver (to get to

Pro Tools
Digital Performer
MacTheRipper/Handbrake/Metax
Reason

 

[Insulin Junkie]

My top 3

1.) Firefox (!!!) - have it open *all* the time
2.) iTunes
3.) OpenOffice

 

[messedkid]

These are my apps that are saved on my dock, because I always have them open.

Finder (duh)
Mail
Safari
Adium
iTunes
Transmission

And with iTunes I always have Cover Sutra and Synergy running.

 

[MotleyPete]

Photoshop, modo, Zbrush


(btw, don't Finder, Safari, mail and iTunes come pre-installed on all Macs?)

 

[Vogue Harper]

Firefox 3; VLC and Photoshop Elements 6.

 

[Angelo95210]

Firefox, Itunes, BBEdit, Cyberduck, Skype

 

[FRKT]

Quicksilver, seeing that I use it to launch pretty much every application I use. Fantastic application.

 

[MacBH928]

why are a lot of you choosing firefox?
What is wrong with Safari?

For me it is Safari of course and vlc

 

[FRKT]

why are a lot of you choosing firefox?
What is wrong with Safari?

For me it is Safari of course and vlc

As a web designer and developer, I use FireFox because it offers FireBug (an excellent debugging plug-in). It's also more common, and in a world where compatibility is king...

 

[dbwie]

my answer...

3rd party software:

Pzizz
AOL Radio app
SuperDuper
Word 2008
and lately, the Harmony Remote Setup software (although now that it's working correctly, probably won't open this again)

Apple software:

Safari (always open)
Mail (always open)
Preview



Another category not mentioned:

facebook.com (often open)
hulu.com (use daily)

 

[chrono1081]

Circus Ponies Notebook
Lightroom
Photoshop
Corel Painter X
Netbeans IDE

 

[Winni]

Seeing these lists, it doesn't surprise me that everybody is so happy with their Macs. It's easy to be pleased when you don't need much in the first place. Most of you guys could be using Linux everyday without ever experiencing a difference - after all, web browsing (with Firefox) seems to be the #1 killer application, followed by some other web related stuff and VLC. The remaining space is occupied by the Adobe Creative guys, which can easily be described as -the- traditional Mac user group.

I wonder where all the technical, scientific, medical, military, engineering and business people are?

The reason why I'm mostly happy with my Mac for personal and private use is that my list does not look much different than yours: Aperture, Photoshop, ecto, Scrivener, you get the idea.

My work-related needs look a lot different, and at work I live in a Windows and Linux/Unix world anyway. There's zero chance for OS X at our Teleport. Although OS X is a Unix, it's been customized - or castrated - to be a consumer desktop OS. Hardly the thing you want to use or need in a satellite-based telecommunications business. And neither does Apple offer any servers or business class support that could even remotely compete with Dell or HP. Apple's just much more expensive for less value in the server market, and they only offer a very tiny range of machines anyway.

Furthermore, most networking software only runs on Windows or "real" Unixes and Linux. Think Ipswitch WhatsUp. Or Cacti. You -might- get Cacti to run on OS X, but why would anyone want to do it? I also cannot imagine anyone setting up a firewall on OS X (most firewall appliances run either a flavor of Linux or OpenBSD - and that's not only because of the cost of the operating system or the fact that it's open source; I know good appliances that run Embedded XP).

Well, whatever. I think our personal software favorites for OS X speak volumes about Apple's target audience. I just hope it helps to shut up a lot of fanboys that try to convert everybody out there to buy a Mac. Just get it in your heads, fanboys: Apple targets only a very small range of customers.

 

[Blindfutur3]

Firefox
iTunes
Tweetie

 

[skinnylegs]

Do you have a link to this?

Email Backup

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/emailbackup.html

 

[skinnylegs]

Just get it in your heads, fanboys: Apple targets only a very small range of customers.

Actually....the vast majority of computer users use their rigs for media related stuff (music, pictures, movies etc.), web browsing, email and word processing and this is Apple's target audience.

I wonder where all the technical, scientific, medical, military, engineering and business people are?

Business people aside, no OS (Windows, Linux or OS X) is 'gonna meet the specialized needs of these groups of people OOTB.

Where are the business people?

* I have my customer database(s) in Address Book.
* I use iCal (synced with my iPhone) for my appointments.
* I use Numbers for accounts payable/receivable.
* I have a custom Word template I use for invoicing.

 

[MAC-PRO-DEMON]

Seeing these lists, it doesn't surprise me that everybody is so happy with their Macs. It's easy to be pleased when you don't need much in the first place. Most of you guys could be using Linux everyday without ever experiencing a difference - after all, web browsing (with Firefox) seems to be the #1 killer application, followed by some other web related stuff and VLC. The remaining space is occupied by the Adobe Creative guys, which can easily be described as -the- traditional Mac user group.

I wonder where all the technical, scientific, medical, military, engineering and business people are?

The reason why I'm mostly happy with my Mac for personal and private use is that my list does not look much different than yours: Aperture, Photoshop, ecto, Scrivener, you get the idea.

My work-related needs look a lot different, and at work I live in a Windows and Linux/Unix world anyway. There's zero chance for OS X at our Teleport. Although OS X is a Unix, it's been customized - or castrated - to be a consumer desktop OS. Hardly the thing you want to use or need in a satellite-based telecommunications business. And neither does Apple offer any servers or business class support that could even remotely compete with Dell or HP. Apple's just much more expensive for less value in the server market, and they only offer a very tiny range of machines anyway.

Furthermore, most networking software only runs on Windows or "real" Unixes and Linux. Think Ipswitch WhatsUp. Or Cacti. You -might- get Cacti to run on OS X, but why would anyone want to do it? I also cannot imagine anyone setting up a firewall on OS X (most firewall appliances run either a flavor of Linux or OpenBSD - and that's not only because of the cost of the operating system or the fact that it's open source; I know good appliances that run Embedded XP).

Well, whatever. I think our personal software favorites for OS X speak volumes about Apple's target audience. I just hope it helps to shut up a lot of fanboys that try to convert everybody out there to buy a Mac. Just get it in your heads, fanboys: Apple targets only a very small range of customers.

Er.. well.. I have a lot to say about this.. but to keep it short...

I am a doctor... and I use Mac's and PC's every day...

Although... I find Linux usefull.. To be fair it really is Crap... the fonts are crap... the apps are crap.. I love open source tech.. but Linux just doesn't cut it...

I use... at my work.. Osirix... which is a "Free" open source Dicom Viewer/Editor... it is made by Doctors.. for doctors.. and is bloody good...

I also make a large use of apps such as LittleSnapper, Photoshop, Mail, iChat (for screensharing) and Aperture...

I have a love for apple computers... but I always have a PC (or VM) at the ready.. I almost never find the use for Linux...

People have come to the Mac from the fact that they are good... They have the knowledge at least that they are better than the PC... they know.. that it is nicer than Linux...

A lot of the software that I have on my Mac is for one thing.. and another to do another.. Linux is just the same... but just worse... It is made up of bits and pieces... and they are all... in the end.. unfinished and unpolished... let the big boys do the work for you...

Ok... this is probhably going to start a flame war...

J

 

[clevin]

Although... I find Linux usefull.. To be fair it really is Crap... the fonts are crap... the apps are crap.. I love open source tech.. but Linux just doesn't cut it...

J

to be fair, ubuntu's smooth font on a macbook looks better than osx's font.

and to be fair, the apps are great, so many apps are the same on mac as they are on linux, I dont even know why you think they are crap? what apps are you specifically talking about anyway?

 

[MAC-PRO-DEMON]

to be fair, ubuntu's smooth font on a macbook looks better than osx's font.

and to be fair, the apps are great, so many apps are the same on mac as they are on linux, I dont even know why you think they are crap? what apps are you specifically talking about anyway?

Er... all of the ones that I have looked at!!!

J