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Recommended Software?

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disuse_nc

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Hey everyone,

Just got my new mb and was wondering if there was any recommended software I should have...

Already installed

  • nmap (*nix network scanner)
  • eavesdrop (wifi eavesdropper)
  • quicksilver (keyboard launcher)
  • adium (im cleint)
  • insomniax (screen utility)
  • appcleaner (uninstaller)
Any other recommendations?
 
I like:

Fugu -- SFPT/SSH/SCP/FTP file transfer program
FileZilla -- FTP
Carbon Copy Cleaner -- Drive Imaging/Backup Tool
The Unarchiver -- More Powerful Extraction Tool


There are many others, but specific to my use. These are the ones I find most useful on a daily basis. Hope this helps if you haven't heard of them before.
 
Free Software:

Perian - Automagic codec pack that lets you play everything with Quicktime and Front Row, as well as all of your iLife programs.
VLC - Believe me when I say that VLC for OS X is awesome. Quicktime is crap.
Logmein - www.logmein.com
X-Code - Apple's IDE. This isn't for everyone...

Non-free Software:
USB Overdrive - much more control over your keyboard and mouse. Acceleration, speed, button mappings, and more. Demo available.
 
Sweet. Will check this out when I get home... I'm remoting into home w/ RDC to my vista box and VNC'ing to my macbook... i've setup port forwarding on the router but can't seem to VNC directly to the box. will have to double-check my network settings and make sure I'm VNC'ing to the right port.

For unix boxes, it should be like 5501 (first desktop) instead of 5500 correct?
 
disuse_nc said:
Sweet. Will check this out when I get home... I'm remoting into home w/ RDC to my vista box and VNC'ing to my macbook... i've setup port forwarding on the router but can't seem to VNC directly to the box. will have to double-check my network settings and make sure I'm VNC'ing to the right port.

For unix boxes, it should be like 5501 (first desktop) instead of 5500 correct?
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I personally like VNC over LogMeIn for my hackintosh - the default port is 5600. You'll just have to forward that to your internal IP.
 
Cool thread. I'm getting a MBP as well and not too familiar with Mac software, so this should be nice

Can someone name a good program that can mount image files? Like Daemon Tools for Windows? Or is that option built in to the OS? :eek:
 
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Tried to justify buying the MBP and couldn't do it :(. Getting married in 5 months so the extra thousand dollars over my refurb was too hard to swallow.

I've started experimenting w/ Mac The Ripper and Handbrake to encode my DVDs around the house to AVI... next up is to upgrade the wifi around the house to N as the G is starting to take a hit w/ 3 laptops and a wifi extender for the xbox.
 
Here is all the stuff I've downloaded since I got my MB

AppCleaner
Adium
Burn
Deeper
DOSBox
Firefox
Handbrake
InsomniaX
LiteIcon
Magnifique
Maintenance
NeoOffice
Onyx
PeerGuardian
Quicksilver
MS Remote Desktop Connection
Songbird
Transmission
VirtualBox
VLC

Stuff I've deleted since I got my MB

iTunes
Safari
 
Haha. Nice. Didn't realize peer guardian worked on OS X. will have to install. I have tried and tried to get it working on Vista x64 to no avail :(.
 
utorrent
X-chat(IRC)
VMware Fusion
Realplayer
MSN messenger MAC edition(if adium is not your thing :p )
Flip4mac (mac's edition of windows media player for browser videos)
Candybar (customize your layout)
Coversutra (able to monitor your music through itunes)

and yes... Norton Antivirus 11... <-- i feel safer going online doing my banking and billing payments

the rest i got is mentioned above..
 
Video Monkey - Great convert anything video to other file formats. Built using Visual Hub's source code when Visual Hub went out of development.

Sidenote - creates a notes drawer on the side of your screen to store random thoughts.
 
Almost a year since converting, have never looked back (except VMWare fusion to run IE for web development testing) $ = not free

FireFox
Songbird
$TextMate (good for code development)
$Transfer (FTP)
uTorrent
$MS Office (sorry I just do not see the same functionality in iWork)
Handbrake (rip DVDs)
$VMWare Fusion (virtual machine)
Skype
$Unison (Newsgroups)
$MacFreelance (good for invoicing/time keeping)
$Candybar (cusomization)
VLC (only video player you'll need)
MAMP (Apache/MySql/PHP package)
$TriTag (fix broken id3 tags)
$Little snitch (excellent firewall)
Google Notifier (gmail notifier)
Adium
$$$CS4
$Navicat (excellent database tool)

Check out mac-update.com and macheist.com for good deals and packages.

One other recommendation is to setup your hot corners for Expose/Spaces/Display Sleep/Desktop.

Best of luck!
 
Anymore I'd have to disagree with FireFox for OSX. While it is good I don't think it's that much better over Safari (especially once 4.0 is out of beta) the only reason I say that is because it is slightly slower than Safari.
 
It's all about the plugins for Firefox... I am willing to give up 1ms of speed to be able to have flashblock, adblock, DTA, greasemonkey, stylish, and others (just to name a few).

Running both Windows and Mac OS X, I can have the same functionality across all of my browsers along w/ plugins with the same user experience.
 
Tylerdurdened said:
Cool thread. I'm getting a MBP as well and not too familiar with Mac software, so this should be nice

Can someone name a good program that can mount image files? Like Daemon Tools for Windows? Or is that option built in to the OS? :eek:
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It's built into the OS, and it's called Disk Utility. It will also burn images to disk.

Anymore I'd have to disagree with FireFox for OSX. While it is good I don't think it's that much better over Safari (especially once 4.0 is out of beta) the only reason I say that is because it is slightly slower than Safari.
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It also does not support the touch pad gestures, like Safari does. (at least, not the the forward/back functions). However, I have to use it for work, as all of our itnernal web pages are specifically coded for FireFox.

I will add MacThe Ripper to the list, and Boxee.

MacThe Ripper - DVD ripper, DVD region free, CSS cracking
Boxee - video feed aggregator - Netlflix, The Onion News, Comedy Central, Hulu, Joost, etc. Great, great application. Still in Alpha, but I've only had 1 crash (of the app, not my MacBook).
 
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all free:

Azureus (uTorrent for mac was not released yet when I got it, now I got used to it)
Disk Inventory X (shows how much files take up on drive in a fragmentation diagram)
Google SketchUp (quite functional actually)
iSquint (iPod video converter)
MacTheRipper (DVD ripping tool)
MainMenu (system utilities)
Name Mangler (very usefull for renaming large # of files, like photos)
OnyX (system utility)
SiteSucker (usefull for downloading whole sites for offline viewing)
Skype
Songbird (although I use iTunes mostly)
StreamRipperX (for ripping streaming radio stations, splits them into tracks and names)
StuffIt Expander (good archive utility)
TinkerTool (hidden OS features)
VLC (rules)
XBMC (X-box Media Center, far, far better than front row, good interface, works with remote too)
 
Speaking of XBMC, does it work with Playstation 3? If no, does Front Row?
 
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