Cult of Mac

[Tormentius]

I'm a recent convert to the Cult of Mac and so far its been a painless transition from my ancient Dell running Windows 7 to a Macbook Pro. OSX seems really efficient and the battery life is a ridiculous improvement over my previous system. Does anyone have suggestions for apps that you've found useful beyond the usual Office and photo editing apps?

[shaft]

alfred or quicksilver, reeder, sparrow.....check out the mac app store, sort by popularity.

[MKJ]

growl

[Therac-25]

The only Mac specific thing I use in my work is the Visor hack for the Terminal, and maybe MacFUSE (despite it being a port).

Everything else is cross-platform.

[bitWISE]

I like Transmit for ftp, but Filezilla is cross-platform. Utorrent is cross platform but Transmission is a good client too.

This app you drop onto the Finder toolbar:
http://code.google.com/p/cdto/

Can't think of anything else at the moment.

[Big Kahuna Burger]

For MBP, get Caffiene from the Mac app store. Fantastical is awesome too if you use iCal or google cal.

[Κracus]

I've been supporting MAC's more and more in my job. I can't say I enjoy it...

[Psyche911]

I've been supporting MAC's more and more in my job. I can't say I enjoy it...

MAC = Media Access Control (address).
Mac = Short for Macintosh = Apple computer.

Sorry, always bugs me when it's all in caps, and I don't even own one these days.

[brisk]

Macs are shite LOL LOL LOL

[Κracus]

I've been supporting MAC's more and more in my job. I can't say I enjoy it...

MAC = Media Access Control (address).
Mac = Short for Macintosh = Apple computer.

Sorry, always bugs me when it's all in caps, and I don't even own one these days.

Yeah, I know what a MAC address is, but I've always typed Mac in caps because I do the same for PC.

[obsidian]

PC = Personal Computer
Mac = Macintosh

If your name is Bill Hendricks, you can abbreviate with BH but you can't call yourself BILL.

TL;DR: Congratulations, you're retarded.

[Κracus]

Thanks man... really, I totally needed that. Do you know the difference between internet and Internet?

[obsidian]

Also:

Burn (CD/DVD/ISO/DMG burning)
AppTrap (Enables option to remove preference files and logs when uninstalling apps)
NTFS support (http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?s ... 3140023382)
Colloquy (IRC)