Recommened Mac Apps?

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Okay so I've just treated myself to an iMac :D a lot of saving haha!

Anyway - I was wondering if any fellow mac users have any apps they recommend getting? I got a voucher with the purchase and don't want to waste it on some rubbish.

Obviously anything photography related, but also video production, or just anything you find useful!

Thanks :)
 
Cinch. It replicates the windows 7 function of dragging windows to the edge of the screen and then resizing them to fit exactly half of the screen. You can also drag to the top to fill the screen as well. It was about the only function I missed from W7!
 
Handsoff, and 1password
And skitch
And textwrangler
And OpenOffice
 
Aperture - Apples Lightroom offering.

Some say better, some say worse - it does most of what I need with the notable exception of layers (mind you the LR version 2 didn't have that either, don't know if version 3 has).

At less than £50 from the app store fantastic value for money now (I paid £140 when I bought my imac):thumbs:
 
The only Apps I've bought (and used) for my MBP were Aperture and Microsoft Office 2011 (Apple and Open Source just suck on the compatibility front)

I did get Pixelmator too, but I've not actually used it yet.
 
redddraggon said:
Microsoft Office 2011 (Apple and Open Source just suck on the compatibility front)
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Never had one issue with open office, both through various ppc machines and intel. (mac user for 10years, open office since about '05) pretty good compatibility if you ask me.

Aperture is a must from me, great value although as stated it's a personal thing. lightroom and CS available.

Skitch user since beta but I can't justify the full version thats in app store - free version on their website does enough for me.

Transmission - great for the odd torrent file

Lyrica - one of the better apps for finding and adding lyrics to iTunes music.
 
Mattwood said:
Never had one issue with open office, both through various ppc machines and intel. (mac user for 10years, open office since about '05) pretty good compatibility if you ask me.
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I see compatibility issues everytime some one opens an OO document in Office, formatting is just not the same. If you are the only OO user in an office full of MS Office users and supervisors who only use MS Office you are on a hiding to nothing.
 
redddraggon said:
I see compatibility issues everytime some one opens an OO document in Office, formatting is just not the same. If you are the only OO user in an office full of MS Office users and supervisors who only use MS Office you are on a hiding to nothing.
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That's not an open source compatibility issue, it's just an OO issue. Used open office in an office/large corporation but documentation had to be then saved as PDF for sharing so no issues noticed.
 
I've only ever opened one document in Open Office. It opened easily, but, like redddragon, the format was different to MS Office. Not good for a WYSIWYG editor so I removed it...
 
From the App store:
Caffine - Very simple to change between tree hugger power mode and don't shut down/turn the screen off. (Free)
Intego virus barrier - Mac A/V. (Free)
 
Im just about to dive in and go mac. I was wondering if anti virus was a must. A lot say it isn't but there's a lot saying it is.
Having no experience of them up to now i would have thought that any machine connected to the interweb could be susceptible.
I stand to be corrected and await advice. :)
 
PSILVERMAN said:
Im just about to dive in and go mac. I was wondering if anti virus was a must. A lot say it isn't but there's a lot saying it is.
Having no experience of them up to now i would have thought that any machine connected to the interweb could be susceptible.
I stand to be corrected and await advice. :)
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I hadn't even thought about getting any. I'm pretty sure I read on the apple site that it comes with some inbuilt?
 
PSILVERMAN said:
Im just about to dive in and go mac. I was wondering if anti virus was a must. A lot say it isn't but there's a lot saying it is.
Having no experience of them up to now i would have thought that any machine connected to the interweb could be susceptible.
I stand to be corrected and await advice. :)
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As long as you run in a managed account (i.e not as admin) for all of your day to day stuff, and then just do the system updates etc from the admin account then there's very little that can realistically attack the Mac - anything dodgy downloaded would need the admin password to install, so a surprise installation box asking for the admin password would set the alarm bells ringing. Not to mention that Apple actually defends against known threats in 10.6 and 10.7

There is nasty stuff out there for the mac, but it's a very small amount.

There will be a big one one day, and when it hits it will hit hard. However running AV won't necessarily protect against it, at least not at first. It'll take the major AV firms a good 24 hours to get the signatures up to date, by which time the damage will have been done.

I used to run AV on macs when using system 7, 8, 9 as there were threats around, but since 10.x I've not bothered.

If you're still interested, a couple of the AV vendors are giving mac versions away free at the moment. Sophos and ClamXav are the two that spring to mind.
 
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I think they have all be mentioned before

Aperture
AppCleaner
Caffine
Colloquy
ClamXav
 
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