Anyone who reads this, and has a mac, please start recommending software. IM client, text editor, useful apps, useful widgets, rails installer, etc. I installed firefox, is it worth installing camino?
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Adium for IM
Fetch for FTP
Stuffit for zip
lightroom for organizing and editing photos
QuickSilver for utility
MS Office
most other stuff comes with the Mac
Man I totally flaked on emailing you. The first thing you need to do is get Quicksilver. I use:
TextMate as a text editor,
Transmit for FTP,
OmniOutliner for notes and lists,
Safari for the Web,
Mail for email,
VLC for watching DivX and what not,
Audium for IM,
iViewMedia Pro for sorting photos and what not (iPhoto might work fine for you)
Those are probably what I use the most.
eff safari. go with camino.
get comfortable with quicksilver, its one of the best things about osx.
I put my vote on safari, though I keep FireFox installed for those things that require it.
a very strong vote for quicksilver - I use this app about a million times a day.
after that, the iStatPro widget is pretty handy and looks good.
TextMate is worth paying for.
and I can’t live without stickies launching automatically
I like CyberDuck for http://FTP.
No MS-Office for me. NeoOffice for all that jazz.
Graphic Converter is about the best and lest expensive program I have.
Photoshop elements is a great less expensive version of Photoshop that includes just about everything the average user needs.
I switch between Safari and Firefox. I gt a lot of pages that do not load with Safari plus the occasional crash. With SAFT installed at leas I can get back to where I was. Camino and Firefox seem to eat up more CPU cycles than Safari which was an issue before I got a new intel iMac.
MS Word and Excel are too universal to avoid - at least for me.
I use Onyx for house cleaning but there are lots of other options.
some other programs i use often:
* eclipse for working on large software projects (with phpeclipse for php)
i like simple programs:
* smultron for text editing and working with small software projects
* notational velocity for taking small notes
* writeroom for working on my next great novel and taking notes in class
* solitare xl looks pretty cool but i don’t play solitare
* rita is a fun drawing program if you like to make little sketches
* mat showed me “chocoflop” which does a lot of photoshop stuff but it runs and loads super fast (for when i can’t wait for photoshop to load)
* chicken of the vnc is an awesome vnc client
I use MAMP for MySQL Apache PHP all wrapped together (kept separate from the OS so you can play with settings or install the versions that you need)
I use the special version of Skype that supports video to use with iSight
Lastly I use a little program called PHP Function Index (PHPfi) to store a local copy of the PHP.net’s function documentation