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Just wondered what any of you use as regular software packages on your macs.

Ive just started using Evernote across all devices and find it a great way to take notes and keep up to date, first time ive really allowed myself to try new software, so just wondered what you all as daily software that i may find interesting.

Cheers
 
Evernote as you say
Dropbox for file synchronization between devices
Imovie 11
Lightroom 3
Google chrome
Garrage sale (ebay tool)
Pixelmator Photoshop alternative
Connect 360 for streaming files to my Xbox
Zumocast for streaming files to my ipad

Probably many others that I can't remember
 
LR3 & CS5
MS Office Word & Excel
Remote
Toast 10
Fetch
VLC
iWork
iLife
StellaPhoenix
 
1password. Awesome in a can.
HandsOff! (Like LittleSnitch but a bit cheaper :D)
Skitch (For screenshots)
 
Marcel

what does Skitch do that Grab doesn't? Just curious as I like grab
 
Lightroom 3
PS Elements 9
Fireworks (Web graphics)
XCode/Eclipse (Coding)
GetBackup
Caffine - Stops Mac going to sleep, great little program.
 
Aperture 3
Elements 8
Pages
Numbers
Kompozer (HTLM editor)
Caffine
SilverKeeper
Canon DPP
Jalbum
Money Manager Ex
 
only just got round to looking at these, some nice bits of software there.

Any other suggestions?

thanks
 
superduper - backup/archive utility.
 
Some smaller life savers...

Launcher http://www.alfredapp.com/

Web based but a free (and better imho) alternative to 1Password https://lastpass.com/

F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.http://stereopsis.com/flux/

TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images. http://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/

Window management http://www.mizage.com/divvy/
 
crashtestmac said:
Have a look at this offer mate..!

https://www.mupromo.com/

Lots of the stuff suggested and more. Great bundle for £31 i even paid for it and that is saying something... :-)
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That is a great great price for a well stacked bundle! I've already got a couple of the applications, but if I thought I'd have use for the other ones I'd be all over that! Although it's probably worth it just to get Parallels!

For anyone who doesn't take that offer up before it expires and maybe wants 1Password, which is a great piece of software, here's a 20% discount code to put in at the checkout stage.

iSlayer - 20% off 1Password (Valid until 31/12/2015)
Found it on here through google. http://chris.pirillo.com/1password-coupons/

I first got it for my iPhone about 18months ago and it seemed really pointless. Then, when I delved into the desktop version, it really came into its own. I've currently got mine synced between 2 Macs, an iPhone and iPad.
 
crashtestmac said:
Have a look at this offer mate..!

https://www.mupromo.com/

Lots of the stuff suggested and more. Great bundle for £31 i even paid for it and that is saying something... :-)
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Arrrgh FFS!

Ive already bought Hands Off! and 1passwd.
Would have bought it for A better finder rename and Parallels (and the above two if I didnt already have them!)
 
Couldn't live or work without:
Aperture 3
Nik plugins for Aperture 3
Pages
Numbers
VoodooPad
Jbidwatcher
Garage Sale
VLC
 
Marcel said:
Arrrgh FFS!

Ive already bought Hands Off! and 1passwd.
Would have bought it for A better finder rename and Parallels (and the above two if I didnt already have them!)
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just downloaded this as was already looking at a few of the packages, pretty good deal, do these come along often?
 
I never put my software list;

Handbrake (DVD/Video ripper/convertor)
A Better Finder Rename (Batch file renamer)
PDF Pen (PDF Editor)
EXIF Viewer (safari plugin)
RapidWeaver (WYSIWYG webpage creator)
MS Office (although just downloaded Pages recently too)
Cinch (window management from app store)
Dropbox
Stuffit (zip/archive software)
Calibre (eBook convertor)
VLC
Flickr Uploader
CleanMyMac (uninstaller & general cleanup app for mac)
 
Can anyone suggest a good backup programme ideally a free one

Cheers
 
donkeymusic said:
Can anyone suggest a good backup programme ideally a free one

Cheers
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Give Time Machine a try. It should be there already and does the job. You'll need an external drive though.
 
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paulcamcas said:
Give Time Machine a try. It should be there already and does the job. You'll need an external drive though.
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was looking for another one as i dont have a dedicated spare drive just for time machine
 
donkeymusic said:
was looking for another one as i dont have a dedicated spare drive just for time machine
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I don't use time machine myself but you can use it on a partition. On the kids macbooks I set them up with a 60gb partition plus a 20gb partition then set time machine to backup user files to the 20gb partition.
 
Partitions are just as good/bad as copying to a shadow direectory. I've never lost a partition on a disk... it's always been data loss on the platter surface that has hapened to me.

You can afford a mac ;) so just buy an external disk. Can't be more than £50...
 
arad85 said:
Partitions are just as good/bad as copying to a shadow direectory. I've never lost a partition on a disk... it's always been data loss on the platter surface that has hapened to me.

You can afford a mac ;) so just buy an external disk. Can't be more than £50...
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The kids have a macbook each as does Mrs_C but none of them would use an external disc. We have a proliant server and they still don't use that !
 
MS Office 2011
Omni Focus/Plan/Graffle (Task/Project/Visio)
Mindjet MindManager
iCompta
VLC
Parallels
Adobe CS5
Aperture
Firefox (although use Safari as my default browser)
VNC Viewer
Cyberduck (FTP)
1Password
MacDive
Skype
Transmission
Calibre

in the dock! Time Machine backup to external drive.
 
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cowasaki said:
The kids have a macbook each as does Mrs_C but none of them would use an external disc. We have a proliant server and they still don't use that !
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MacOS is linux ffs. Set up a cron job to back up using rsync when the macbooks are on. That's what I've done here - all PCs backed up every 15 mins. Noone knows it's there apart from me but I (think I) have 100% important data backup...
 
here is my list of must have mac apps imo -

little snitch - very handy to stop software munching bandwidth
transmit - nice ftp program
xmarks - syncs bookmarks between firefox, safari, iphone etc
trillian - all in one messenger app for msn, yahoo, aim, googletalk, icq etc
office 2011 - its actually pretty good and i prefer outlook to mac mail
parallels - great bit of software for running virtual machines of other operating systems from your mac desktop
disco - disc burning app that works well (prefer it to toast)
textmate - mega notepad app, handy if doing code as well
coda - mega coding app
imtoo video converter - nice little/quick app for converting movie files
path finder - file manager app, better than finder imo
flip - as above
 
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