recommend me some mac softs

Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I hit on an apple store girl today, kind of, while my boss was buying a couple macbooks for company purposes.
At any rate, yeah.. Um. I guess I'm a mac owner now.

Recommend me some software that I MUST have.

Adium is the best aim client, right?
What about for mail?
annd... FTP?
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Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Photo Booth is fun! And yeah, this screen is super nice. I also enjoy this keyboard. It's my first widescreen laptop.

Anyone know if I can get DiVX support in frontrow?
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Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Oh, and for bit torrent? Sorry for all the questions, I only use macs for aperture prior to this.
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If there's one thing I really like, it's how all these mac apps have stylistic unity. Is that cocoa or whatever?
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Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I'm going to wait until I put 2gb of RAM in here to parallels it up. If parallels even runs well. So far, my switching experience is going well. A few of my favs so far :

expose of course. I dont know how I lived without it.

Mail is a very good mail program!

Hot Corners.

Systemwide spell checking.

spotlight.

And front row looks pretty nifty, too.
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Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I think adiumx is better than ichat, unless you want to do video things. whats your aim, tim?

i didn't get a MBP. They're too big and you could land an aircraft on them. I'm a travelling man, I need something that I can put in my ballistic foam case (2400JPY at Narita Airport and COMPLETELY worth it) and throw it in a bag and get on the next plane.

Since 1995, I have never gone more than a span of seven months without stepping on some kind of airplane. Also, I have a PC desktop for games.

But yeah! It's still fast and speedy. Widgets are nice... and tim, the weather channel widget should work for Tokyo! But you can just fire up your dokodemo issho and check the weather, right?
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Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

okay, i installed quicksilver. It's nice for app launching, but where's this powerful functionality? to me it just seems like spotlight that i use ctrl spacebar for instead of apple-spacebar.
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Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

so uh.. anyone using leopard yet? or want to snail mail it to a brother?
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Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

noooooo! I'm never going to be one of those mac users. I just had this conversation the other day!
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