Taking care of business on a Mac
 

Sometime ago, after another Windows XP crash, I decided to make the conversion over to a Mac. I still have a Win XP laptop but most of my work is done on an Imac and Macbook.

Anybody else using primarily Macs? Can you share some of the Mac software you feel is essential to your business? Im looking for stuff that isn't necessarily part of the Adobe/Microsoft/Macromedia trio but that stuff counts too.

could use some of that info too, I recently started using a mac mini for work

I cant imagine myself without windows.

I am completly MAC based. Dealing with photo and videos all day I couldnt think of a better platform. I do most of my work with Adobe/Macromedia software. For email and office work I use MS office, for my books I use Quicken. Can't beat iCal for organizing the week, and of course you have iTunes, and the whole Final Cut suite.

Leopard looks to be an amazing upgrade to the OS cant wait for that!

Sinclair

what do you need to do?

If you need better chat capabilities than iChat provides, go download Adium.
http://www.adiumx.com/

Make Safari better by having it not autoload every flash animation and being able to do some advanced filtering of sites: http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

Get QuikSilver for application launching from your keyboard... I personally set it to use apple-shift-up as my key combo.. it's very useful:
http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/

And if you absolutely must have pc apps or have access to a pc, go download parallels, it's pretty amazing:
http://www.parallels.com

Other than those and the macromedia apps you named I can't think of anything else.

If for no other reason than to see the videos people link to on GFY and Yahoo Fantasy Football, I've setup Parallels and Win 2k.

Some good info so far - keep it coming.

What type of videos can't you view in OS X?

Flip4Mac will allow you to view WMV movies in quicktime, DivX will let you play Xvid and DivX movies in Quicktime. And VLC Player will play pretty much ANYTHING.

I have VLC but when I click on the link it doesn't associate automatically. If I know Im just going to be screwing around Ill browse using Parallels and WMP

bump for macs . . i just converted, stable so far

Other than what comes loaded on the machine.
Keep in mind on a Mac you can do more with less.

BBEdit is the must have text editorhttp://www.barebones.com
Interarchy FTP Client http://www.interarchy.com
Camino is my browser of choice http://www.caminobrowser.org/

Mac Software:
http://mac.softpedia.com/
http://www.versiontracker.com/


And of course PHP and Perl are loaded all you need do is enable via the http.conf file

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careful with those macs, i got 2 x 17" G4 powerbooks

both LCD's died (apple wont fix em..dont ask)

getting a sony now back to pc

6k down the drain :(

Our office is pretty much all Macintosh. Couldn't even imagine the chaos of doing what we do with PC's.

another nice software for mac: cyberduck for ftp (it's free)

those new mac's are insaine, i want one.

How is ithat you managed to kill not 1 but 2?
Did you drop them out the second story window? What?
I'm at a loss as to how this would happen.

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Only use Macs except for TGP submit and to update the Windows' anti-virus software occasionally. When we get the new Intel Macs by the end of the year our "trusty" Windows machines are going to get a nice sea-burial in our pond.

Have both, Adobe and Macromedia, since they merged they are probably soon going to combine the two somehow, which might get rid of sucky Fireworks in favor of Photoshop. Other than that you can use Final Cut Express or Pro and dump both, Avid and Premiere, which is going to speed up video editing 500%.

Mac... no thanks.

MassReplaceIt is a great freeware find and replace tool. Other apps I use daily, Adium, Opera, QuickSilver, Mail, SKedit, Transmit(although mac FTPs in general suck IMO), camino, VLC, Chicking of the VNC, PathFinder

My company develops adult software specifcally for OS X. I have 2 apps in development at the moment and can't wait to hand out the betas.

too bad I detest Macs...

Some others:

AppZapper http://www.appzapper.com
TextMate http://macromates.com/
PathFinder http://www.cocoatech.com
Shirra2 Beta http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/en
VisualHub http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
FFMpegX http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
Deja vu http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...es/dejavu.html

BBedit for coding
Transmit for file transfer (and live editing on remote servers)

Never used a PC in my life.

--edit
http://versiontracker.com/ for all your software needs.

Broaden your mind Sticky :disgust

What are you using for your coding, Xcode?

I would tend to agree with you about FTP proggies but I'm satisfied with Interarchy.
Your opinion please.

We use Xcode.

I use Transmit for FTP, but I think it's poor compared to the many fully featured Windows FTP apps. I tried lots of FTP apps, not happy really with any of them. Perhaps one day I'll design my own.

That's so uncool. Dude, you are not gellin'

Can't view DRM'd videos... and occassionally somebody uses some whacky codec that wont work. but 99% of the time i have no problems.

i've been using primarily MAC for about 6 years now, and for the last 2 years, only Mac.
I use a lot of the bundles apps for small tasks: Like iphoto to create a quick thumbnail gallery of al of my images (it takes about 30 seconds to do about 500 images at a time).
i use Adium to keep all my messanger programs rolled into one

I use Imail to keep all my email boxes organized.

I also have dashboard widgets that convert currency, give me time around the world at a glance and one to keep track of my cpu temp, memory usage, disk space and bandwith.

I use Garageband to compose royalty free music for my content.

Other than that, I use Dreamweaver, Final Cut and DVD studio pro.

Oh, and I never get a virus and my comp never crashes. ever.

i've been using primarily MAC for about 6 years now, and for the last 2 years, only Mac.
I use a lot of the bundles apps for small tasks: Like iphoto to create a quick thumbnail gallery of al of my images (it takes about 30 seconds to do about 500 images at a time).
i use Adium to keep all my messanger programs rolled into one

I use Imail to keep all my email boxes organized.

I also have dashboard widgets that convert currency, give me time around the world at a glance and one to keep track of my cpu temp, memory usage, disk space and bandwith.

I use Garageband to compose royalty free music for my content.

Other than that, I use Dreamweaver, Final Cut and DVD studio pro.

Oh, and I never get a virus and my comp never crashes. ever.

I'm really thinking about getting a Mac. A buddy of mine just got a job at the store in Boulder and can get me a discount. Think I just might have to use it after hearing everyones reviews. I have a Toshiba Sattellite now and I love it, but I think I am convinced on switching over.

I had a toshiba satelitte too. i liked it well enough, compared to other laptops.

Mac is he way to go though, in my opinion