What are some "essential" applications I need?
I bought iWorks '09 and downloaded Little Snitch to monitor network activity. The laptop itself comes with iLife '09.
What are other programs I must have, or should get, or just whatever? Freeware or shareware, doesn't matter.
I'm a switcher and a Mac newbie. This is my 1st post on the forum and I plan on buying a IMac 24" soon. which programs are a must have for Mac owners. I already have a few such as AppZapper, Adium, Stuffit, Mactheripper, Toast and Quicksilver. I already have Photoshop CS2 through my job and I've been looking at Aperture and Final Cut for video editing. My primary purpose is graphics/digital photography and later videography but I'm also looking for everyday Mac software.
View 24 Replies View RelatedI just purchased my 2.66 15" uMBP today and it's been a few months since I've owned a Mac and I forgot all of the old applications I had on it. I've currently downloaded Firefox and VLC but are there other apps that you can't simply do without? Also, is there a Mac application that can play FLAC music files?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just found a pretty cool and super easy way to access my main iTunes library on my iMac through WIFI on the Air when I'm out of my network. Install simplifymedia on the Air and your main computer and share with yourself.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhatever your situation is, if you need to test your RAM, Memtest OS X is the best tool for the job for your Mac. Yes, there's Memtest86+ - I always use that for all the PCs I own. However, there's a bug in Memtest86+ where it could give false positives on EFI machines (which all Intel Macs are).
Memtest, by the way, is open source. So why, then, do you have to pay to download it? You have to pay to download both the binary and the source. I believe this violates the GPL, which Memtest OS X, and Memtest before it, are released under.
So I'm attaching Memtest right here in this thread. Now you can download it for free, without having to pay. Unfortunately, I don't have the source .
I'm curious - I've taken my ibook apart and replaced hardware that had broken, I have TONS of screws... Can anyone direct me to a diagram, etc. that will inform me of ESSENTIAL screws, if those even exist.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently went through my Applications folder and uninstalled some applications. Now and then, I'll find a file or a folder or a bunch of files and folders from an uninstalled application. Does anyone know of an application that can delete these files that I no longer need?
View 19 Replies View RelatedI have both a mac and a pc
now with my student ID i could get programs for a decent price
however it seems that there is a mac edition and a pc edition license for each program.
i was wondering if there is a way where i can pay once and use both versions. or do i have to buy for both versions
I've just used my time machine to migrate my old macbook's contents to my brand new macbook air. While I was watching it restore 803,678 files to the new machine, I was wondering how many of them are unused applications. I've stupidly never set up separate user accounts before this, and I'm sure there are any number of applications that were placed on my old machine by my kids, my husband, and various visitors to our house. Since I'm using time machine instead of starting fresh, I know those have been transferred to the new machine. I've never worried too much about this situation before now, as about every three years I've bought a new machine, migrated the files I need to the new machine, wiped the old one clean, and handed it down to one or the other of my kids.
But now I'm realizing that with time machine, everything on my computer is now forever...everything anyone has ever put on it has been transferred to time machine and now to my new machine. I don't want to be operating with years-old versions of kid's games and apps on every machine I set up from now on for the rest of my life. Is there anything out there that specifically looks for stuff that hasn't been used for a specified number of years and asks something like, "Barney & Friends was installed 1/16/2003 and was last used 10/18/2005. Delete Barney & Friends and all associated files, yes or no?"
I'm looking for an advanced notepad for editing HTML/CSS. I'm also wondering whether there's a notepad that has good note-taking functionality as I'm going to use my MBP at University next year.
I also need a cleaner (CCleaner) type program that will keep my Mac in-tune. I'm wondering whether I actually need to keep it in-tune seeing as it's running probably the best operating system in the world which doesn't have all the crap entailed with it.
I'm going to maybe invest in Photoshop in the distant future but is there something that really has the power of PS in a nutshell? I really can't afford the prices they are charging so I'm wondering whether I can just nudge my way round it all and get another decent editor.
is there a good msn app for mac os x ? amsn seems to be the best but no audio in video chat ?
View 8 Replies View RelatedCan anyone recommend a good backup/sync tool with the following features:
Sync 2 folders
Support FTP
Scheduler
Rules (i.e. control over what gets copied)
I've tried Transmit (no scheduler)
Synk (really confusing UI and would freeze when I tried to cancel a sync)
AASync (kept crashing)
I'm looking for a free to-do list app. Anyone know of any? i know the ones that cost money are probably better but I don't feel like spending money at the moment.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI need a Mac Cloning App like Super Duper...
it's been a while since i did research on this ,so are there any other Cloning Apps that are better than Super Duper ?
itunes not an option. i just want a good audio player which doesnt crash all the time like vlc! but can play a lot of formats. whats good out there?
View 14 Replies View RelatedIs there not a software out there to make a PVR are on the iMac?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm currently using utorrent as my p2p application and was told by a friend that I should be using an IP blocker like PeerBlocker to block certain IP's that track what you are downloading.
He is actually a Windows user and after a quick google search I have found that PeerBlocker is not available to mac users. As a result I have downloaded Peer Guardian and have to say I'm totally confused as to how to use it and what "lists" I need to have setup.
im new to the mac and was wondering if theres anythink like look at lan for the mac
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if there is a free mp3 splitter that is simple and easy. i tried audacity, but found it a little complex, and hard to make many splits in.
View 15 Replies View RelatedFor many years I have been using Turbo Tax for Windows, and it has been adequate for my needs. When I switched to the Mac I bought a copy of Quicken/Mac to replace my copy of Quicken/Windows. What a disappointment ! The Mac version seems to be about 3 years behind the Windows version.
Having said all that; I am considering Turbo Tax for the Mac with some reservations, based on my Quicken experience. I can afford to be annoyed with the outdated Quicken/Mac, but I cannot use a tax program that might be equally outdated.
Does anyone know of a good minesweeper program for free? I just want something that is like the windows version. I tried the widget but I dont like it.
View 12 Replies View RelatedAnyone know of a good to-do-list list app for the Mac? An iPhone version would be awesome as well as some sort of time feature. Evernote is all I could come up with.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI would like to know if you guys can point me in the right direction. I am currently searching for a mac application that will facilitate the process of learning math. I am about to take college algebra next week. And, I would love to have an app that will help me along to understand math a little better.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am getting a macbook pro 13 in a few days. I was wondering what downloadable apps were the most useful, or necessary.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there such a thing? I know you can open them in TextEdit but the formatting is a little messed up most of the time, same with Notepad in Windows. Once I switched to DAMN NFO (Windows NFO reader), formatting was great.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any decent software out yet for converting MKV files? I am currently using Handbrake but it's fairly unreliable.
View 1 Replies View RelatedNeed a good zip program for mac. One to make zip files not extract them. And don't say snow leopard already has that built in. That's garbage cuz it makes that extra useless OS_X folder and that's not needed at all. Plus it never works when say making themes for SMF. They never upload correctly. I know cuz it does on my moms windows 7. Already tried YemuZIP for mac. No good either. And if I manually upload the files it works fine. So it has to be the zip program. Any others besides mac or yemu good for making zip files. Preferably free.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been looking for a free program that will allow me to have notes organized by different subjects but this seems to be the only thing I can find. Their demo doesn't allow you to do much so I wasn't able to really get the feel for it to decide if it's worth the money.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a good XML editor for the mac, that is also cheap to free. on the PC i use notepad++ so now i am looking for something similar.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm working for a small production company and we've been finding ourselves in need of a powerful and easy to use system for checking in/out equipment, hard drives, tapes and other various bits... We also rent equipment equipment regularly and would like it all to come through the same process.
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