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    Old 24-06-2008, 04:17 PM   #33 (permalink)
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    Re: Apple - Essential Applications

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    Showing my darkside here, but Tomato is not a bad freeware torrent client, and Speed Downloader 4 is a nice download manager. SD4 is shareware though...
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    SD4 is on the MacWorld covermount CD/DVD this month along with iVolume 2.5 and Mac pilot 2.5

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    iSquint 1.52 is a worthwhile download - converts .flv files to .mp4 (iPod or TV optimised) for all those YouTube or similar downloads

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    Old 11-08-2008, 02:16 AM   #35 (permalink)
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    Re: Apple - Essential Applications

    Transmission - best bittorrent app by far.

    Also Burn - fantastic dvd burning app - free and almost as good as Toast.
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    Old 10-01-2009, 12:14 AM   #36 (permalink)
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    Don't flame me, but 'VMWare Fusion' - just for a quick and convenient way to get into those couple of legacy Windows apps.
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    Old 10-01-2009, 12:33 AM   #37 (permalink)
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    Transmission - best bittorrent app by far.
    Transmission is nothing compared to uTorrent

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    Old 13-05-2009, 10:51 PM   #38 (permalink)
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    has coda been mentioned yet?
    for web development its fantastic
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    Old 19-05-2009, 02:10 PM   #39 (permalink)
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    http://www.activata.co.uk/ifreemem/

    Sadly it costs but this little app forces all your apps into swap, hence frees up memory.

    Very useful if you use lots of applications and your memory is already maxed !
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    iplayer grabber - download bbc videos and save them as mov.

    adium - all in 1 messenger msn/icq/aol etc plus facebook!!

    inquisitor - replace safafi search bar with another search engine eg uk google instead of .com
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    i think that macs are really great for every day use, but cant beat a pc for games. there is too limited support for games on the mac, let alone games released are not as many as the pc.

    i use a mac for web, photo editing etc, but mainly for that stuff which is not gaming.

    i have a pc for that...........

    and an xbox 360....


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    Re: Apple - Essential Applications

    Originally Posted by thomswalwell View Post
    i think that macs are really great for every day use, but cant beat a pc for games. there is too limited support for games on the mac, let alone games released are not as many as the pc.

    i use a mac for web, photo editing etc, but mainly for that stuff which is not gaming.

    i have a pc for that...........

    and an xbox 360....


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    i hear what you're saying but...doesnt bootcamp sort of fix that problem?

    my friend introduced me to the new line of MBP and showed me CoD4 and GTA4 running on XP on a 15" MBP, so whats the problem?




    Also, it would be cool if someone could edit the first post with a more up-to-date and relevant list of essential applications, that first post 2 years old. I only just got my Mac and would love to get veteran's advice on what apps to use
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    Plex - great media centre application.

    Will play *anything*
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    Im gonna try that out, so it'll play RM, MOV, WMV, DivX and MV etc too?
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