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17-10-2009, 23:29
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Absinthe
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Cambridge
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Essential Mac software
Just taken delivery of a shiny new MacBook Pro which is my first proper Mac so what software should I be looking to get?
So far I have: Colloquy Handbrake Skype Dropbox Google Earth VLC Bootcamp into Windows 7 |
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17-10-2009, 23:52
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Spinky-Spank
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: 668. The Neighbour of the Beast
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Adium is good if you use IMs.
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18-10-2009, 09:01
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Joey Tempest
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Gravesend.
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Toast Titanium.
Transmission - if you use torrents.
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18-10-2009, 10:14
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ex SAS
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: JO01ou
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Perian
Flip4Mac 1Password (great for setting up individual good secure passwords for any websites you go to) CandyBar (for interface tweaking) Cyberduck (ftp client) Skitch (image capture) Spotify Zattoo How's that for a start?
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18-10-2009, 10:16
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Chef extraordinaire
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Infinite Loop
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growl is a good one too
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18-10-2009, 10:40
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Rocket Fuel
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 7,826
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Xslimmer is useful if you want to reclaim wasted HD space within applications.
Unison is the best usenet client I've found so far. |
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18-10-2009, 12:58
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ex SAS
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: JO01ou
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Xslimmer is indeed a good one, I bought that ages ago and only just re-installed it after my Snow Leopard installation. It just freed me 1.02Gb of space on my OS/App drive and considering that was only 17Gb pre Xslimming, it's a nice saving. All I let it do is remove unwanted languages though, I'm still a bit cautious about architectures.
Whatever you do, don't run Monolingual to remove languages though, it's very risky and it totally killed one of my installations despite following the instructions to the letter.
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18-10-2009, 16:58
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Rocket Fuel
Join Date: Jul 2006
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I've used Monolingual on several (6 IIRC) OS X installations and never had a problem. From what I remember the key is to not remove English (US).
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18-10-2009, 17:22
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ex SAS
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: JO01ou
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I didn't! I can't remember what it screwed up but my only solution was a rebuild from scratch. It has a pretty awful reputation if you search around, I'd rather be safe than sorry and will never go near it again.
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18-10-2009, 21:02
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Rocket Fuel
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Each to their own
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