Re: OT. Recommended software for new Mac users

[Don McAllister <donmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Tim,

I was wondering about QT pro but I'll take your advice and buy a copy!

I'll check out the rest of the stuff later.

Don


On 7 Mar 2005, at 09:31, Tim Allen wrote:

>
> As promised in another message, I've put together a list of apps that
I
> find either essential and/or useful. I'm short on time so I haven't
> included links to them all, however, if you go to
> http://www.macupdate.com/ or
http://www.versiontracker.com/
everything
> should be listed there, along with alternatives. There's a lot more
Mac
> software out there than people realise.
>
> Anyway, here goes, in no particular order...
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> F =3D FreeWare, S =3D ShareWare, C =3D Commercial App.
>
> Audio Hijack (S). Captures audio from any application, ideal for
> recording Real audio streams, DVD soundtracks etc.
>
> Synk (S). Nice little backup utility that I use for backing up to an
> external FireWire hard drive.
>
> QuickTime Pro (C). Worth buying, and I also recommend finding and
> installing every codec you can get hold of as with these installed you
> should be able to play pretty much any video within QuickTime Player,
> rather than having to use VLC or MPlayer.
>
> VLC (F). You probably know this, can come in handy for playing video
> that QT can't handle.
> MPlayer (F), similar to above.
>
> Checkbook (S). Cheap shareware clone of Quicken. Nice little app.
>
> Toast (C). The daddy of Mac burning apps, well worth the money as it
> handles pretty much anthing; audio, video or data.
>
> HimmelBar (F). Excellent little freeware app that adds a customisable
> apps menu to the Finder.
>
> BluePhoneMenu (F). I've mentioned this in another message, very neat
> Bluetooth phone app.
>
> Cocktail (S). Excellent maintenance app that puts a nice GUI on top of
> lots of powerful Unix maintenance commands. Run it once a week to keep
> a Mac happy.
>
> DiskTracker (S). Feed in your disks and it keeps an archive of what is
> where. Been using it for years with no problems.
>
> Galerie (F). This is worth =A350 in my book yet it's freeware!. Builds
> superb photo and movie galleries from iPhoto or other apps. An
> *essential* app without question.
>
> MacTheRipper (F). Rips DVDs to hard disk and removes all region coding
> and protection etc. No idea what you might use this for. Ahem.
>
> DVD2oneX (C). Apparently it reduces a DVD9 disk to fit on a DVD5 disk.
> Again I have no idea what you might use this for. *cough*.
>
> For FTP I use Vicomsoft FTP Client (S) but Transmit (S) is excellent
> too, and RBrowserLite (F) is a decent freeware alternative.
>
> Temperature Monitor Lite (S/F) uses the sensors in your Mac and graphs
> the output. Very geeky but useful too. I'm sure my dual G5 is alive
you
> know...
>
> TextWrangler (F). Superb text editor. And it's free. Say no more.
>
> MacStumbler (F). Finds wireless networks near your Airport equipped
> Mac. Handy if your neighbours haven't got WEP turned on.
>
> NetNewsWireLite (F). My preferred RSS feed reader as it's free. Loads
> of other nice ones are out there too.
>
> Activity Monitor and Disk Utility. Both come with OS X and are in the
> Utilities folder inside the Applications folder. The first lets you
see
> what your Mac is up to, the second is useful for all things
> disk-related, including repairing permissions.
>
>
> Apologies again for the lack of links but I hope the above is useful
to
> the Mac users on the list.
>
> Tim.
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