Any Mac fans on here?

[lopxtc]

Well I got my new toy last night;

17" PowerBook G4 ....

Big switch going from many years using WinBlow$ to OSX ... did it most because of the BSD backend on OSX, so I love the command line interface. Just going to have to get use to a new filesystem structure.

Coming from a Unix world which is what I have worked on for most of the past 6-7 years (Linux/Solaris/HP-UX) the command line portion of OSX is nice ... just need to get use to the user interface now.

Now any hard core Mac users here got a list of must have software that I should check out.

Also any recommended keyboards / mice? When its at home it will rest on my desk and share my other 17" LCD panel which should make for a nice desktop ... but I want a nice mouse / keyboard for use at those times also.

Aaron

[Kevmaster]

the apple keyboard and mighty mouse are great...but it takes any USB keyboard/mouse and if it has bluetooth, will take them too.

must have software....


limewire if you want a p2p
transmit is the best FTP program
mactheripper rips DVDs to your HD
Toast Titanium
VLC media player (plays all avis, wmv, mov, etc)
play with the dashboard widgets

pages and keynote arn't that good imo...i'd stick with microsoft, but the iLife suite is very nice

[Archangel Kid]

I <3 everyone who puts a $ in with anything relating to Microsoft... oh wait... not.

[slade]

limewire if you want a p2p

ive heard poisond is good. you can download from all the different networks, and its open source.

ive also heard good things about adium for instant messenger.

[lopxtc]

Sweet thanks for the tips ... so far I love the thing, and best of all my current favorite titles play on the it without having to get new disks;

WOW
WarCraft III
Myst 4 & 5
KOTOR

Aaron

[Hexis]

Really depends on what you intend to do with the machine.

My must haves are:
Photoshop
Office
OmniGraffle Pro
Canon tools (comes with the DSLRs)
iPhoto
Delicious Library

I keep my PC around for gaming, so no real games on the PB. Hopefully soon I'll be getting a G5, with that I will be getting Aperture. With Apature I'll prob not be using iPhoto much.

Check out xcode, that's cool (and on your OS dvd).

[Kevmaster]

yeah xCode is great if you do development stuff at all...

Of course Adobe and Macromeda stuff if you use that stuff

[lopxtc]

Yeah I have a copy of the most recent MacroMedia Suite ... havent really touched it when I had the PC version so not sure if I will use it on my mac either. Going to get an external firewire drive to install apps on that I dont need on a daily basis.

Yeah xCode looks kind of fun to play with ... might screw around with it some.

Aaron

[dave p]

i just got a free G3266. im gonna install kubuntuPPC on it.

[digitard]

My computer does both...

MacOSX86 and WinXP Pro



And it out benches a lot of G4 stuff ... w00t

[maxama10]

Mac Powerbook 15 .....got it a few months ago
I LOVE IT
BEST THING I HAVE EVER DONE IS SWITCHING FROM WINBLOWS TO MAC

[maxama10]

oh need to get photshop cs2 if you dont have already

[LudavicoSoldier]

Mac Evangelist here. Big time. Best thing I have ever done for my school is to bring in iBook mobile labs and iMac computer labs. I was never a windows fan. I've been using Apple computers since the Apple II and have never strayed too far. OSX really brought Apple mainstream.

[Hairball]

Adium X - AIM/MSN/Yahoo/Jabber/irc, etc. chat. Based on gaimlibs
Camino - Mozilla-based browser. very fast
Candybar - replace icons quickly and easily
Pseudo - Allows you to run apps as root
Shapeshifter - UI theme utility
Stuffit - file compressor and decompressor. good format, horrible program
TinkerTool - edit hidden system prefs and stuff
Toast - good burning utility
Transmission - my preferred torrent client
TransparentDock - dock customization tool
WhatSize - gives sizes of files. useful for finding an exploded console log (found a 40gb crashlog once.)
XFactor - giFT client. giFT = utility that allows p2p connections to Gnutella, FastTrack, and giFT networks

Check out versiontracker.com to find these

[bofh]

a couple of useful tools I have on my 12" pb

macanalysisX - combined security and networking tools, I'm not sure it made anymore
KisMac - wifi scanning tool
VNC - take your pick of which client. I like OSXViewer
AquaEtheral - etheral with an aqua frontend
nmapFE for osx- nmap

MactheRipper - decrypts dvd's and makes Vob's
Drop2DV - converts vob to DV
Final Cut Pro - serious video editing software, expensive, get work to pay for it.

Bluephoneelite - bluetooth phone interface
xchat aqua - irc client

oolite - OS X elite clone. yes, elite the old vector space trader game.

and check out versiontracker too.