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So partytrick now has her MacBook...
Any software that is absoutely essential for us to download (or buy)?
We've got firefox, skype and open office currently.
What's the best IM (AIM) client? Any other cool add-ons? (The cat-on-keyboard detector? :-)
Any software that is absoutely essential for us to download (or buy)?
We've got firefox, skype and open office currently.
What's the best IM (AIM) client? Any other cool add-ons? (The cat-on-keyboard detector? :-)
Adium X for chat clients. Beats iChat all to heck.]
OpenOffice.org 3.0 is actually native windowing system now. So it's now much better than NeoOffice, which is, besides being based on 2.x instead of 3, also Java and therefore slow.
Sadly, there's still no Aqua/Cocoa GTK+, so the GIMP etc. is still X11. (And you definitely want to download the latest version of X11 from xquartz.macosforge.org if you're going to use any X apps.)
I used to recommend iTerm as a replacement for Terminal.app for CLI stuff, but the Leopard version of Terminal is nice enough that the difference isn't as compelling.
If you want to use much in the way of UNIXy tools, you will want Fink and/or MacPorts, which are the moral equivalent of APT/Yum. I have both because often something will be available in one but not the other. Unfortunately they each install their own version of all prereqs, so keeping both around is a little wasteful on the disk space front.
Flip4Mac to play Windows Media in QuickTime. Possibly other codecs as well, like 3ivx MPEG-4 (which I need for my FlipVideo). I also recommend upgrading to QuickTime Pro so you can convert video freely.
Parallels or VMWare and/or Crossover and/or Boot Camp. You will at some point want to run Windows stuff on it.
And I've actually switched to Safari as my regular browser; disappointed with the performance and bloat in FF3.
Audacity if you want to record/mix audio.
Transmission if you want to do peer to peer file sharing.
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