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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: yes.
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Transmission is great now since they worked out all the bugs that caused me to switch over to uTorrent Mac beta.
I found uTorrent to have much better speeds, but now IT'S bugs drive me nuts. |
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superacidjax
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't bother with the MacBooks. The screen is too small. |
Obviously, personal preference, but I use a new MacBook to run high-end audio apps for DJing and the 13.3 inch screen is fine. Any bigger and it would take up way too much space in tight quarters. Also, the 13.3's are much, much better on airplanes because they don't crowd the tray-table. The 13.3 is perfectly fine. I did have a 15 inch MB Pro before this current computer and it did take about a day to get used to the smaller screen on the MB, but you really don't notice the smaller size after you've used it a bit.
I only wish they made 13.3 inch MB Pros.
Screen size is all about personal preference of course. There is no right answer, I am merely suggesting that you can get used to the smaller size and in many cases, come to prefer the gain in portability. I hated carrying that monster 15 inch MB around, I could not even image the bulkiness of a 17 inch model! I carry my computer everywhere so I love the lower profile of the new MacBooks. Your mileage may very.
If screen size is THAT big of a deal, I recommend getting a Cinema Display and hooking that up to your computer when you're at home. The CinDisp has the extra advantage of being one heck of a TV/movie monitor.
As far as MS Office.. there is absolutely zero reason to ever spend $200+ dollars and load that POS program on a Mac. iWork is far superior, cheaper and has a much lower footprint than Office. It also doesn't try to think for you like Office. Office seems to want to guess at everything you're trying to do. "It seems like you are writing a letter, do you want help?" Blah, blah, blah. That dumb program must have been written for functional illiterates- yet it's one of the least sparkling programs out there. (compared to iWork at least.) |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: yes.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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Glims:
Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions, Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead ...)
http://www.machangout.com/
Little Snitch:
Stops applications from making contact with the outside. Great if you're a pirate. The demo works for 3 hours and can be restarted limitlessly.
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html |
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boatofcar
Joined: 20 Dec 2006
Location: Sheffield, UK
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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http://lifehacker.com/5291841/
Lifehacker's best of 2009 Free Mac App list.
Postbox is a great Apple Mail alternative, and has finally gotten me off the web-based Gmail client. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Even though I HATE Mac., I am recommending this to be a sticky. Great stuff for those lose...errr....people that like Mac.
ehhehe.
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www.ralphsesljunction.com |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: yes.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:59 am Post subject: |
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Menu Eclipse:
Save your constant menu pixels from getting burned into your screen!
Gain better focus on your work & play, and away from the menu bar!
1.3 is for Leopard. Older OS, use Macupdate to find older versions of this software.
http://www.xybernic.com/ |
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swigs
Joined: 20 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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Evernote
A cloud program that tries to be your 'virtual brain'. Works most OSs and there is even a program for your iTouch or iPhone.
http://evernote.com/
Growl
Notification program that has a ton of custimization features.
http://growl.info/
(Edit: I just started using these two programs, and don't know their usefulness or the amount of system resources they take up yet. But they both seem fairly light and useful.) |
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dandoeskorea
Joined: 10 Apr 2005
Location: London
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| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Spotify (http://www.spotify.com/en/), but only if you reside in the UK, Finland, France, Norway, Spain or Sweden - not very helpful on here, but still. Free, unrestricted - and legal - music. Will expand to more countries in the future so watch this space... |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: yes.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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iWillQuit :
Often times I will start the torrent client and let it run thru the night.
iWillQuit does just as you expect. You can choose to sleep, shut down, restart, or log out after a specific amount of time. So go to sleep and know that in a few more hours you Mac will join you in dreamland.
http://www.freemacware.com/iwillquit/
WakeUP :
Allows you to remotely wake up a machine asleep. WakeUp lets you store name and Ethernet addresses of your machines, and wake them up when needed, i.e. when you need to access a file on a distant machine whose File Sharing is on, without physically accessing the machine to wake it up.
http://www.coriolis.ch/en/wakeup/
Flesync 2.2 :
Provides selectable synchronization of files, folders or volumes to networked Macs, external drives, USB flash drives and mounte disk images. During the synchronization a progress window will appear showing updated files. A handy servers drawer allows addition of networked Macs for double-click mounting on the desktop.
http://www.designersdomain.com/filesync/
BravoTunes :
Puts iTunes in your menubar, providing scrolling track information for the current and upcoming songs, plus a system-wide menu to switch tracks, pause iTunes, or adjust shuffle and repeat settings.
http://bravobug.com/bravotunes
iTunesMenu :
A menubar application that helps you see what song is playing in iTunes. iTunesMenu has options for controlling iTunes with hotkeys, and showing Growl notifications when the song has changed. iTunesMenu uses Shortcut Recorder to capture hotkeys.
http://www.mrgeckosmedia.com/applications/info/iTunesMenu
Mousqueak :
a free and easy to use application that will add a significant amount of features to iTunes.
http://homepage.mac.com/dy4/zumuya/Mousqueak/
Wraparound :
Liberates your mouse cursor. When the cursor reaches the edge of the screen, it can now wrap around to the other side and keep going. It can work horizontally, vertically, or both. Wraparound can also ignore the corners so Expos� will continue to work.
http://www.freemacware.com/wraparound/
iCleanLanguage :
Remove unwanted language files from your computer. On OSX, these files can take up as much as 4 GB of space and unless you wish to run your Mac in these languages, they are completely unnecessary.
http://rdutoit.home.comcast.net/~rdutoit/pub/robsoft/pages/icleanhelp.html
Subs Factory :
Subs Factory is a complete application designed to create, adapt or modify film subtitles. Subs Factory only recognizes .srt files yet. These files are fully compatible with VLC. Films can be in any format supported by QuickTime (including DivX if the suitable codec is installed).
http://subsfactory.traintrain-software.com/index.php?langue=en
SizzlingKeys :
Lets you control iTunes without leaving your current application. Control all aspects of iTunes with hot keys that are fully-customizable via an intuitive Preference Pane plug-in.
http://www.yellowmug.com/sk4it/
MorphX :
Take two pictures, and transition between the two of them smoothly. It is easy to do.
Here is an example of our friend Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft...
http://www.freemacware.com/morphx/
PeerGuardian :
IP blocker for OS X. PeerGuardian integrates support for multiple lists, list editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4 (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on the Internet.
http://phoenixlabs.org/pgosx/
Aquallegro :
If you are a musician, Aquallegro will let you take your music to the next level.
Aquallegro is music theory teaching software. You can learn the note scales and names, the variation notation, and quite a bit more. This is a very useful application and it is quite easy to use.
http://www.freemacware.com/aquallegro
Movie to Go :
Offers a free�and fast� way to convert video files. The program works well and is very easy to use. You simply open the video file with the program and click the �Convert to iPod video� button.
http://www.freemacware.com/movietogo/
iAlarm :
Allows users to control how they wake up in the morning by leveraging the power of OS X. iAlarm provides 7 basic alert types for users; play iTunes, speak the headline news, speak a custom message, speak your daily events and to do items from your iCal calendar, speak the local weather, and of course a standard beep.
http://www.xultrasoft.com/iAlarm/index.html
Mozodojo :
Really neat freeware that creates mosaic pictures. (Mosaic is when you take lots of little pictures and make them look like one big picture.)
To use this software, just choose a picture to make, then choose a folder of pictures to create it from. You can choose how many pictures to use and just how detailed you want it to be. You can even choose the final image to be poster size and print it out in good detail.
http://www.freemacware.com/mozodojo-bgs
SuperDocker :
Allows you to customize parts of your Mac OS X Leopard. If you�re already bored with your Leopard style and appearance, SuperDocker may be just the right tool for you.
http://www.ed-shiro.com/soft/mac-os/superdocker/ |
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