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January 25th, 2007, 05:32 PM
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| The Top 7 Free Utilities To Maintain A Mac. http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac3...aintain_a_mac/ Cheers, Tom  |
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January 25th, 2007, 07:52 PM
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| The one I _really_ can't live without is LaunchBar. Not free (although there are free alternatives, I _really_ prefer the original here...), though. Looking at my Dock... - Safari - Mail.app - Terminal.app - Fetch - iTunes - VLC - TVBrowser - BBEdit - Adobe CS/CS2/CS3 (I mix because I prefer InDesign and GoLive as the older versions and use Photoshop CS 3 beta) - Preview and the most important one: TextEdit. I use it to write my texts and books. It's really great for writing - at least if you're actually capable of writing and don't depend on too many gimmicks that "more evolved" (read: bloated) textprocessing apps 'feature'.
__________________ MacBook Air 13" 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.4 MacBook 13" 1.83 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.4 Hackintosh Core2Duo 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.4 iPhone 16 GB, AppleTV 1G 40 GB (v2) Mac user since 1987, Apple Product Professional 2007, 2008. |
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January 26th, 2007, 06:09 AM
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| Synergy iTunes remote AudioScrobbler Photoshop Illustrator Flash After Effects Handbrake Adium Activity Monitor Fetch SNES9x iTunes
__________________ Dual 1.8GHz G5 2GB, 1TB, Radeon 9600XT 128MB, 10.5 20" Apple Cinema Display + Dell 2005FPW 20" dual-head iBook G3 700MHz 640MB, 40GB, Rage128 16MB, 10.4, dying battery |
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January 26th, 2007, 07:48 AM
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| - Butler. Honestly, I do miss some features of LaunchBar, like drag-n-drop support, but Butler does a million other things I can't live without, too, plus it's free and I can write my own extensions for it. It's like half a dozen must-have tools in one. - PithHelmet. I consider Safari downright unusable without it. Safari won't even normally let me turn off gif animations! My eyes hurt just thinking about it... - BBEdit Lite. It's so good that I stick with it instead of using its successor, TextWrangler. BBEdit Lite is just so much faster and simpler. I will use it until it no longer runs. - Color It! My favorite graphics program from the old days is finally available for OS X. (It's not free, though, and there's not even a demo available yet, but I took the chance and put down the money for it, and I'm glad I did.) It is very obviously a port of a classic Mac OS app — it doesn't even have live window dragging! — but nevertheless, its sheer usability still shines. I've used every other affordable graphics app for Mac (and some non-affordable ones, like Photoshop), and they all make me scream in frustration. Color It lets me work in ways that make sense. I have always considered it to embody the Mac Way. I just love Color It, and I am very glad to have it back. I actually resorted to using it in Classic before — it's that superior to everything else. If you do any bitmapped "sprite style" graphics work (as opposed to photo editing or that kind of thing), Color It is a must. It's in no way a replacement for Photoshop, but Photoshop just really sucks at a lot of things that Color It is great at (why can't Adobe give me some decent shape and selection tools? WHY?!?). Okay, enough ranting/gushing. - A few programs I wrote for myself that I have still not publicly released. One of these days...  - QuickTime Player (Pro version). Best video player out there. I long for the day when QuickTime can play subtitle files and play OGMs and MKVs (look forward to the next version of Perian!, so that I'll never need to use VLC again (great app, but...bleh). Some other apps that are great, but that I don't feel like I couldn't live without are Audio Hijack Pro and everything in my signature. And some cool but ultimately pointless apps that I love to have are ChangeDesktop and BackLight 2. Oh yeah, and Calculator. Darned useful. I'm still looking for one that more graciously accepts pasted-in statements, though.
__________________ Mac mini — 1.25GHz G4, 1GB RAM — OS 10.5.2 I'm now a four-browser man. How on earth did this happen?! Useful programs: PithHelmet, Butler, ffmpegX, VLC, Perian, Tofu, Wcalc |
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January 26th, 2007, 06:58 PM
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| These are just some I can think of right off right now. Perian MacReporter (in dock mode) QuickTime Pro QuickTime - MPEG -2 Delicious Library (for home collection tracking for insurance) TinkerTool Yasu (simple but really effective maintenance tool) Toast iSquint (a must have if you have a video iPod)
__________________ PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8(Rev A.), , 7 Gig RAM, Pioneer DVR-110, ATI X800XT, OS X 10.4.11 & 10.5.3, 23'' HD LCD Mac Book Pro Core 2 Duo 2.16Mhz, SuperDrive, ATI X1600, 2GB RAM, OS X 10.5.3 Tibook 400Mhz, DVD drive, 1024 RAM, ATI Rage, OS X 10.4.7 1TB Time Capsule 5g iPod 30Gig White |
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#8
January 27th, 2007, 12:35 PM
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| TypeIt4Me Not free but I couldn't do without it. Also EmailCleaner, More Photo Libs, Join Together (audio book files in iTunes), Claris Home Page (well it's not sold any more so it must be free) and Claris Emailer (ditto).
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