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What Mac application do you need but not exist

I have only been a Mac user for a short time. However so far there is not anything that my PC did that I my Mac doesnt. I have found a Mac application that does exactly the same thing.
 
johnyy said:
Hi guys,
We all know there are tons of applications for windows.
For mac, there il little.
What kind of application do you want to use on your Mac but still not exist?:D
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I would like the pinball game from a Pc on a mac
 
I need a good VHDL/Verilog synthesis and simulation tool. This along with a nice FPGA integration application. But the first part is more important.
 
print screen or area

Gadwin Print Screen a really great little program for screen capture, I know you can Command+Shift+ F4 or F3, but Gadwin is a nice clean interface.
 
johnyy said:
Hi guys,
We all know there are tons of applications for windows.
For mac, there il little.
What kind of application do you want to use on your Mac but still not exist?:D
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If any, 3DS Max.

I've found Mac equivalents to everything on Windows. Except viruses. So far.

Maybe if Apple bought BeOS and included some of its underlying structure. Even back then BeOS was more fluid than Linux and far more efficient than NT ever will be... definitely a multimedia dream... but that's a pipe-dream.

oh! The ability to play iPhone games on a Mac, using the mouse or touch tablet (Wacom) as input device.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7D11 Safari/528.16)

Mac messenger with A/V support :D
 
I need an application that helps me organize my schoolwork better.

An interactive callendar that binds my workfiles to deadlines, and show me what notes i can use for each course.

Lets say I want to do this:

1. Open schoolwork, from a course of the European Union
2. See my current assignment and the deadline
3. See the accompaning notes I have made from seminars and speeches from this course.
4. Have a list of participants in my group, being able to write notes for each of them. What part of the assignment they have obliged to do, so I can know what Im supposed to do.
5. Have a list of what pages I should read in the schoolbooks, for this specific assignment in the course.
6. Be able to enter progression data into my assignments. Something like "First two parts completed, one part remaining" or "70 percent complete".
 
I want a program like Irfanview in Windows that lets you browse through a directory of pictures and do some basic editing.

I've used Xee, Cocoview, and Picasa and none can compare. I like it so much that when I'm in Linux I run it through Wine.
 
Winamp, Total Commander (XFolders, muCommander and Path Finder are not even close), GTA/Anno franchise, Irfanview, ACDC, MiniTab, Soundforge and a long list of basic and dated softwares from the past but mostly games, audio or graphic apps.


Oh, of course, Kazaa and Napster from the old days! :rolleyes:
 
Outlook and Office 2007 (exact replica)
Windows Live Messenger
Digital Image Suite
A start menu (Yes, I like the speed of OS X, but can't get used to the GUI)
Super Mario Bros 3 and Ninja Turtle 4: Turtles in Time
 
johnyy said:
Hi guys,
We all know there are tons of applications for windows.
For mac, there il little.
What kind of application do you want to use on your Mac but still not exist?:D
Click to expand...


Basically EVERYTHING that is business related.
Then everything that is related to the technical side of the satellite business where I make my living.

Heck, we don't even have an Office suite that is on par with Microsoft Office for Windows - and I'm talking about the full Office and BackOffice range here, which is a lot bigger than just Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook. Project, Visio, Sharepoint, OneNote, SQL Server, Access - you name it.

What about Sage?
Kiwi Cat Tools?
SatMaster Pro?
Visual Studio? (Objective-C and Xcode are last century tools.)
Terminal Services for Mac that work well over the Internet - and no, that VNC-stuff is a crutch, it's not something that really works like RDP or ICA.

How about some WORKING out-of-the-box support for non-Apple keyboards, and here I mean keyboards with GERMAN and other language layouts? You know, there are not even 300 million people on this planet using American keyboards. The other six BILLION use something else. But strangely enough, Apple hasn't got that memo yet.

To make this very short: Make OS X as versatile as Microsoft Windows, and we're good to go.
 
I would love to see an App version of TV Forecast. The widget ain't half-bad, but having it in the dock and a little more customization features(ie: showing up on the desktop/keyboard shortcuts to display it) would be awesome.
 
I got my MBP in September and had to buy parallels in order to do development in Visual Studio 2008 and Rational Rose. Other than that, there are programs that seem to do anything else I want in OS X.
 
So to update my own question from earlier, Unison turned out to be a great alternative to Newsbin Pro on the Windows side. So if you do anything with .nzb files on newsgroups, definitely give Unison a try.


Now for a new question. I'm looking for an app that can take in text formats like:

abc001.jpg
abc002.jpg
abc006.jpg
abc123.jpg

and go look for those files in a folder, then copy those files to another folder.
I used to be able to use a .bat file on the windows by copy and pasting those file names into the .bat file, then execute the batch file. I wouldn't know where to start on the mac side.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
Autocad, Revit, RISA, Beamchek, Access. ..........basically about 80% of the programs I need in order to stay in business.
 
oilfighter said:
So to update my own question from earlier, Unison turned out to be a great alternative to Newsbin Pro on the Windows side. So if you do anything with .nzb files on newsgroups, definitely give Unison a try.


Now for a new question. I'm looking for an app that can take in text formats like:

abc001.jpg
abc002.jpg
abc006.jpg
abc123.jpg

and go look for those files in a folder, then copy those files to another folder.
I used to be able to use a .bat file on the windows by copy and pasting those file names into the .bat file, then execute the batch file. I wouldn't know where to start on the mac side.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
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UNIX commands are your friend here. Got a text file with all the file names to process in it? Know where to limit the search to (i.e. your user folder, your Pictures folder inside your user folder, some sub-folder therein, etc.)? Then all you need is a few commands.
The first command you'll need is find (or its rough equivalent, mdfind, which uses Spotlight to find files, or yet another alternative, locate - which won't work until its locate database has been built). man command-name is a great source of documentation for how any of these work.
Then, you need cp, the copy command, to copy the files to the new place.
Finally, the whole thing gets wrapped in a loop that processes the entire text file until there are no more lines. Here's a skeleton for such a loop.
 
Games. :p I'm not much of a PC gamer (prefer consoles) but there are some games that are just better on PC. Thankfully, Steam and Valve are coming to Mac, so most of the games in that "better on PC" category are coming soon to Mac anyway. :p

Any real applications... not that I can think of. I hate the interface on the Mac version of Skype, but it certainly works. And I haven't gotten comfortable with any basic image editor for small 2D sprites. I'm still hooked on MS Paint. :p
 
Autocad
SolidWorks
Keil uVision
MPLAB
Altium Designer
One Note
Mastercam

I love my Mac for a home machine, but when it comes to doing anything productive Windows is a must for me.
 
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