What are the commercial/free software that is a must-have?
I want the best!
Thanks for the help
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sophos and smart sleep.
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vlc player , u torrent, firefox
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CitizenPanda Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer
Bettertouchtool for window snapping (Windows 7 like) and more gestures
Growl for notifications
Sparrow for Gmail
Plex is good for media center/Netflix integration
Dropbox is your cloud access point -
Funny thing that you get growl when you install dropbox.
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VLC - Media player
Handbrake - Video ripper/encoder (uses the vlc engine to strip dvd encryption)
Alfred - Launcher
Burn - disc burning
Bean - word processor
Bowtie - iTunes addon, depending on theme can display cover art, track info and control itunes
Carbon Copy Cloner - disk cloning software
Cyberduck - FTP (as well as a ton of different connection methods)
Evernote - cloud-based note app
The Unarchiver - replacement for the built-in decompression program, supports a lot more file types
Transmission - bittorrent client
TrueCrypt - encryption app
---- All are free. Some are ad-supported (Evernote) but Evernote has a subscription option as well, that removes the ads. -
Oh...1password, perian, growl, hazel, cocktail, delicious library, kismac, knox, mindnode, notational velocity, pixelmator, skitch, steam, swacket, textwrangler, trillian, twitterific, vmware fusion.
Those are all worth checking out. I have each of those installed. It's probably easier to google them than to decipher my explanation.
If you have a core i-series laptop with a dedicated GPU, then gfxcardstatus and smcFanControl -
gfxCardStatus, very nice to force the Intel graphics to stay on to conserve battery since Apple's method is a bit faulty in logic.
smcFanControl... be a bit more proactive on fan cooling
Wineskin... I'm very biased on that one, but I love being able to port Windows apps and games into Mac apps -
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Quicksilver - even better launcher.
TextWrangler - for text crunching (regular words or programming)
Quietube - to get rid of the comments and ads on Youtube
Monolingual - saving some space if you only use one language -
http://forum.notebookreview.com/6673744-post1.html -
I wasn't talking about the program itself, but what it is used for....
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Tell that to the anal admins on this site...
Must-haves on a MAC?
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by BlazingSkies, Apr 28, 2011.