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[Ferrio]

Huh huh? Taking suggestions.

 

[fart]

what?

 

[sc0la]

well what do you want to do?

Limewire, for your P2P needs.

Cyberduck freeware/donation barebones ftp app.

I actually like the preinstalled iChat for AIM.

 

[Ferrio]

I don't know what I need. Just taking suggestions for stuff. Never had a mac before, just curious if there's any spiffy applications that you guys could suggest.

 

[fart]

apple's x window server is really nice, and free.

otherwise i don't think you're going to find yourself using much more than safari and mail

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

Macstumbler if you have a powerbook.

 

[Freestyler]

The best P2P program ever happens to be on Mac.

http://www.acquisitionx.com/

Frickin awesome.

 

[Ferrio]

Well i was more interested in applications, not means to pirate things.

 

[RevenantKioku]

adium for aim
butler for a means to open any app by just typing. I've heard quicksilver is good too, haven't tried it.
Keep safari for your web, mail for your email
VLC for watching things quick time doesn't play. VLC will also play any region DVD, by the way. Just disable the auto-run of DVD player in your system settings.
I don't know how much or if ever you look up japanese words, but JEDict is an awesome dictionary program. I didn't stumble upon it at first, but its damn great.

 

[ckohler]

Here's a good list not including the more popular apps like Photoshop and Apple's own stuff of course:

Aquaduct 2 - XBox Tunneling software - Free
http://postpose.com/aquaduct/

Divx for Mac - Quicktime Decoder(Encoder) plugin - Free
http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/

DVD2One - Compress commercial DVDs to fit on one DVD-R - Shareware
http://www.dvd2one.com/news.php

DVDBackup - Decrypt and backup your DVDs - Free
http://www.wormintheapple.gr/macdvd/DVDbackup.html

Fire - AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ instant messaging client - Free
http://fire.sourceforge.net/

Handbrake - Awesome DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter - Free
http://handbrake.m0k.org/

Konfabulator - Tons and tons of cool gadgets for your desktop - Shareware
http://www.konfabulator.com/

MacReporter - RSS/News collector for your Dock - Shareware
http://www.inferiis.com/products/macreporter/

Photo to Movie - Create very professional looking photo slideshows - Shareware
http://lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php

Poisoned - giftd, FastTrack, Gnutell, OpenFT, Kazaa multi-client - Free
http://gottsilla.net/

SoundStudio - Audio Editor - Shareware
http://www.felttip.com/

Toast 6 Titanium - Best CD/DVD burning software on the Mac - Commercial
http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/

SnapzProX - Create movies of your desktop - Shareware
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/

Transmit - Best FTP client on the Mac - Shareware
http://www.panic.com/transmit/

Unison - Best Usenet client I've ever used - Shareware
http://www.panic.com/unison/

UnRarX - Great easy UnRAR utitily - Free
http://homepage.mac.com/pnoriega/unrar.html

Watson - Great app for finding all kinds of useful info online - Shareware
http://www.karelia.com/watson/

Wiretap - Record any sound your Mac makes at any time - Free
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/

 

[DJ_Tet]

Well i was more interested in applications, not means to pirate things.

What more do you want to use a personal computer for man??

 

[Ferrio]

What more do you want to use a personal computer for man??

Coding.

 

[Idle Will Kill]

Here's what I've downloaded since I got my Powerbook last month...

Adium - Instant message program
Transmit - awesome FTP program
VLC - video player
Menu Calendar - puts calendar icon in the menu bar
Camino, Firefox - backup browsers (Safari suits me fine)

otherwise i don't think you're going to find yourself using much more than safari and mail

What does that even mean?

 

[DJ_Tet]

Ahh you want to buy some coding apps. I can't help ya. I could help you steal some coding apps, but you know...

 

[Ferrio]

I don't need any (VIM and such makes me feel at home), I just said what I was using it for.

 

[SteveMeister]

Actually if you buy OSX, you get the dev tools for free, too. They're on a separate CD. I've heard good things about Xcode.

You'll definitely want to check out http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/

 

[xsarien]

I've always thought the Mac version of Office kicked the ever-loving snot out of the Windows version, as ironic as it may be.

 

[Wolfy]

Macs are good for playing football with

 

[Phoenix]

Coding.

http://www.eclipse.org - Best free development environment around. Open source.
http://www.intellij.com - Best Java development around. $$

http://opus.funstaff.ch/freeware/g2/ - its like a lightweight photoshop. Loads in 3 seconds. Free.

http://www.bitshiftaudio.com/products/idrum/ - if you want to make drum loops for Garage band or similar. Shareware.

http://www.opensword.org - Pixen and Reptile best pixel and tile editors around, both free and open source

http://homepage.mac.com/stas/slashdock.html - for news browsing