Mac Software - Recommend some

[The Hoff]

Looking for some decent applications for OSX, anybody care to recommend any?

Doesn't matter what they do, just interested what's about for Mac

 

[Mikey23]

bootcamp......... then windows vista/xp. all sorted

I use a MAC G5 at work, but have vista on it aswell. I don't really OSX that much, but it all looks very nice. as for apps....... i only have the usual stuff on there, photoshop/flash/dreamweaver etc.

If you are into video editing, final cut studio is pretty trick!

There are some interesting 3rd party apps, most of which are free on apple's website. The whole spinning cube/virtual desktop thing was very cool, but latest OSX has its own version built in (sadly no spinning cube though)

at the end of the day, pretty much anything you can get on a mac, you can get on a PC, except for those smaller 3rd party apps perhaps.

 

[Josh2005]

check out
http://www.opensourcemac.org/
tons of free OSX apps there

 

[Schweppy]

Where do i start?? LOL There's hundreds.

ILife
Adium
Cabos
Aperture
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Audio Hijack
Connect360 (xbox360 plugin)
Handbrake
iSquint
iStat (widget)
KCN Screw
MacTheRipper
Parallels
Perian (plugin for quicktime)
Senuti
Toast Titanium
Transmission
TubeTV
VirtualDJ
VLC

And thats just the ones i use regularly

 

[Nick_P]

^^^ thats basically my list to.

 

[The Hoff]

What's this virtual desktop spinning cubey thing Mikey speaks of? Can't find it

 

[Schweppy]

Thats parallels mate. Its free and lets you run windows within mac os x. So no need to reboot. You can either have windows windows (LOL) on your osx desktop or you can use the spinny cube where it spins the screen to go from windows to mac osx.

 

[The Hoff]

Ah gotcha, not too fussed about that then. Is there anything like Beryl available for Mac?

Any other nice looking desktop enhancements?

 

[Schweppy]

Whats beryl??? lol

Ummm u can get something for using screensavers as your background?!?!?

 

[The Hoff]

Beryl is a desktop utility for Linux, basically virtual desktop. Kinda like Windows Aero.

I found some info on a similar tool for OSX called 'Quartz' but I'll be damned if I can find anywhere to download it.

Anybody heard of Quartz?

 

[Rich]

VLC - seems to play most video formats I chuck at it.

 

[sn00p]

Beryl is a desktop utility for Linux, basically virtual desktop. Kinda like Windows Aero.

I found some info on a similar tool for OSX called 'Quartz' but I'll be damned if I can find anywhere to download it.

Anybody heard of Quartz?

Quartz is the graphics subsystem in OS X, you already have it!