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  • #2
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,571 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Another link:

    http://osx.iusethis.com - for freeware and shareware OS X apps.


  • #3
    Hugh_C
    Registered Users Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    Transmit: best FTP client for Mac in the known Universe.


  • #4
    big_moe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭big_moe


    Appdelete great way to uninstall programs
    Handbrake to rip & convert DVDs to your Hard Drive as .avi /.mov etc
    toast titanium 8 to burn anything!
    CocoViewXfor viewing photos, an alternative to Preview (When you rotate a photo, it actually does stay rotated!!)
    azureus bittottent client
    Calico Panorama for making panoramic pictures
    FFMpegX to convert video
    UnRarX to open .rar
    Perian plugin for QuickTime to allow it play most file types
    Fetch great little FTP client, free for students!


    widgets
    currency converter converts currency!
    CharacterPal tells you how to do all the different characters on mac os x keyboards


    thats all i can think of for now!

    moe


  • #5
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users Posts: 18,694 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    iSquint -- the easiest mp4 video converter on the web.:D


  • #6
    jtsuited
    Registered Users Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    ispazz

    Great little itunes plugins for macbook pros that makes the backlit keyboard and screen flash in time with your music.

    Of no practical use whatsoever!! But well worth a download!


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  • #7
    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    Joost - Streaming TV (free)
    Filezilla Beta - FTP client (free/opensource)
    Textmate - My favourite editor for Mac (free trial, $39)

    My Apple Mac Blog, macbloger.net, I'm fairly new to Macs so I decided to blog about my findings. There are a total of 4 of us posting articles at the moment so there is a decent spread between beginer and more advanced topics


  • #8
    triple h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭triple h


    A handy link for people with macbooks.

    Download of the Day: iAlertU - Lifehacker

    http://lifehacker.com/software/security/download-of-the-day-ialertu-166241.php


  • #9
    triple h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭triple h


    one thing i discovered the other day is that macs do not come with a paint or draw program, here is one i just downloaded, i don't know if it is any good yet, but i would like to know what other people have. Oh this if free.

    http://opensword.org/Pixen/


  • #10
    440Hz
    Registered Users Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    Another handy Mac software site http://www.pure-mac.com/


  • #11
    a5y
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭a5y


    Anything in there to open .sit files? I'm trying to open a stuffit file that has the UpLink Demo in it and a Microsoft Word Demo is the only thing associated with it. And its not opening the blasted thing.


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  • #12
    Narcissus
    Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭Narcissus


    There is Stuffit Expander or The Unarchiver.

    http://osx.iusethis.com/search?q=unarchiver

    I havent used either though so I can't give an opinion on them.


  • #13
    macuser56
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭macuser56


    useful Irish link with some guides and tips:

    http://www.macinformation.com/

    Rob


  • #14
    Setun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭Setun


    www.freemacware.com loadsa interesting apps. Browse by category/search.

    :)


  • #15
    triple h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭triple h


    Did not want to open a thread for this message, hope it fits in here.

    Anyway, if you in a newsagents the next day look for the old moore 2008 ( it is a little grren book) --- open to page 11.
    You will see three small paragraphs under the July calendar and the very first paragraph is about Bill Gates, that is the one to read. It is only about three lines.

    I will not spoil it for you. All i will say is you must read it.


  • #16
    a5y
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭a5y


    I'm a bit of a Mac noob, but here's something that's definitely getting me up to speed RSS feeds from TUAW in Google Reader (which in my opinion beats RSSowl/Thunderbird/other aggregators hands down, despite being in beta and occasionally seems to freeze).

    In particular I'd recommend the "Ask TUAW" and "Mac 101" feeds, though there are tons of others too.

    (Also, Yahoo Pipes is especially useful as a RSS filter if you're as sick of the flood of iPhone feature articles as I am)


  • #17
    merkuree
    Registered Users Posts: 105 ✭✭merkuree


    To read/write to NTFS volumes (i.e. bootcamp partitions) from OSX

    http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ for Mac Fuse

    plus you will also need the NTFS driver

    http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

    If that all seems a little too much, try the NTFS driver from Paragon

    http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/


  • #18
    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    Found this program its actually really cool reads barcodes with your isight camera stores your music/movies book. http://www.delicious-monster.com/


  • #19
    merkuree
    Registered Users Posts: 105 ✭✭merkuree


    Flock!!

    Cool browser.......

    Based on Mozilla but adds great functionality....

    http://www.flock.com


  • #20
    Ham'nd'egger
    Registered Users Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭Ham'nd'egger


    One for the budding (And Pro) DJ's in the line of playback software is DJ 1800. It comes as a fully featured working demo application and compared to Traktor, is simple and sweet and a lot cheaper than Traktor. It is geared for G4, G5 and Intels as well, so it will work on most models.

    www.dj1800.com


  • #21
    merkuree
    Registered Users Posts: 105 ✭✭merkuree


    For imaging and restoring your bootcamp partition

    Winclone

    http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/

    - Image your current XP partition
    - Install new Mac HD and partition/configure
    - Bootcamp the new HD and created larger partition
    - Restore image to new larger partition with winclone
    - Repoint parallels or VMWare Fusion to new partition


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  • #22
    nitromaster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭nitromaster


    Remotre Buddy: http://www.iospirit.com/remotebuddy/
    It allows you to control various programs using 'Behaviours' with the Apple Remote.

    Also supports Wii-Motes and iPod Touches/iPhones as remotes.

    (Not free but theres a 30day trial)


  • #23
    440Hz
    Registered Users Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    Handy link for plugin/tools for Apple Mail http://tikouka.net/mailapp/


  • #24
    babypink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭babypink


    Where to repair
    www.techeads.ie
    www.mactivate.ie


  • #25
    nialler
    Registered Users Posts: 895 ✭✭✭nialler


    Hi All

    As a new poster to this forum I thought I'd just throw out a friendly piece of advice, one get yourself surge protects for your equipment and...

    Back up and Back up now
    A lot of home users/small business users that I meet in my day to day business have no backup or no backup strategy or disaster recovery strategy. Question yourself, how much is your emails/images/music worth to you. Personally I have 5 years+ worth of digital photographs, music, email I clear year on year, 3 years of accounts and correspondence but I honestly would put the most value of my pictures of family and family occasions.

    Storage today is cheap, I recently bought a 2tb external firewire 800 drive for €380 this is just over 15x the size of my hardrive, now call me anal I also have a cloned second drive in my mac (G5, 2x2ghz) and backup at least once a week. So go to komplett.ie or another cheap online sales store and purchase yourself a USB2 (although apple's drivers are woeful) or Firewire 400 drive and get backing up.

    Format the new drive once purchased for Mac OS Extended, journaled if you wish (10.3 onwards) and if you use classic applications (OS9) make sure and tick that relevant box (Using disk utilities found in your utilities folder).

    Once done there are a few backup applications that you can use some that I have used and found fairly simple are, MODS: Feel free to add to this:

    Free
    BounceBack Express
    Carbon Copy Cloner

    For those that want to pay for a backup solution there is a Pro version of BounceBack but I have used all variants of Retrospect since it's inception. Retrospect Express is quite good though hasn't kept up with its windows counterpart in development though EMC are now on the case with this and expect to see a new version of Retrospect later in the year. I've heard fantastic things about tolis group BRU backup solutions for mac, but we're getting to the Enterprise level with that and Retrospect Server.

    Generally an external hard drive will suit the casual/home user and even a second one for some level of redundancy as externals can fail also, so go out and spend a couple of hundred euro get yourself a good backup drive and back up this evening.

    Hope this post serves to just put a reminder for those who think their hard drive will not fail at any point or a power surge might destroy a computer, I'll ask again "How much value do you put on the data stored on your Mac".


    Nialler

    Edit: For leopard users Time Machine is the most elegant solution out there, just takes an age to recover your hard drive (3+ hours for an 80gb recovery).


  • #26
    dubmick
    Registered Users Posts: 3,907 ✭✭✭dubmick


    Here is a cool little programme

    SnapnDrag


  • #27
    Turnip2000
    Registered Users Posts: 256 ✭✭Turnip2000


    Heres a great app for anybody finding it hard to keep track of college work etc.

    http://www.craigotis.com/mac/


  • #28
    skywards
    Registered Users Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭skywards


    F11- "No Ma, I'm not on the internet when I should be cleaning/cooking/etc"

    Don't know if it works on newer ones, but it'll hide the screen on my elderly iBook :D


  • #29
    merkuree
    Registered Users Posts: 105 ✭✭merkuree


    http://www.usefulfruit.com/pearnote/


  • #30
    whiteshadow
    Registered Users Posts: 771 ✭✭✭whiteshadow


    Great screen capture / print screen app, nice and fast, and uploads to a server so you can share (if wanted)

    http://www.skitch.com/


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  • #31
    dubmick
    Registered Users Posts: 3,907 ✭✭✭dubmick


    Here is aa app that I've come across recently and am finding it quite useful.

    Yep!


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