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  • zzz@tkz, on 10/10/2007, -27/+169Someone want to buy me a macbook so I can join the club :)?

    (If you bury me, I'll take that as saying that you'll send me money)
  • wellyuk, on 10/10/2007, -10/+148Dear Windows Users,

    Will all the Windows users complaining about Macs please vacate the topic please? We're NOT interested in reading your *****. This is a topic about Mac software FOR Mac users not a "Mac vs. Windows" discussion. You don't like Macs? That's fine with us! But we DO NOT need to hear it every ***** single time there's a Mac story in the APPLE section. Please, please, PLEASE visit "Manage Topics" in your Digg profile and REMOVE Apple from the topics.

    Thank you,

    The Mac owning population.
  • KingZoidberg, on 10/10/2007, -8/+98A few more freeware apps that I'd suggest getting:

    Transmission - the best Bittorrent client for the Mac, bar none. http://transmission.m0k.org/download.php

    The Unarchiver - an archiving utility that works with a ton of formats http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html

    MainMenu - a utility that enables gives a GUI to various Unix tasks, as well as doing convenient things like disabling that resource-hogging Dashboard. http://www.santasw.com/

    I'd also recommend Safari beta 3, unlike the Windows version it's quite stable and well designed, and has a vastly improved search feature, as well as being the fastest browser on the Mac in terms of rendering: http://www.apple.com/safari/
    (and to easily block ads, I'd grab http://sagefire.org/files/good-vibrations-css/beta.zip)
  • phogasmic, on 10/10/2007, -11/+89If you are not using Quicksilver or Adium, you are seriously missing out. I don't know how I ever worked without them.
  • bagelpirate, on 10/10/2007, -7/+59I was a hardcore PC/windows user until i finally picked up a Macbook Pro.
    I could never ever go back.

    Runs games under windows great too.
  • Powerdrift, on 10/10/2007, -3/+53UnRarX shouldn't be on that list. The Unarchiver should.
  • DeathAxe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+49Xtorrent possibly the best Bittorrent client ever written? WTF! It's the biggest pice of crap, banned almost everywhere and years behind every other clients. uTorrent via WINE or Transmission is the way to go.
  • AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -20/+60Got a fresh mac? Then why aren't you eating it? Fresh Macintosh apples are hard to come by this time of the year.

    /completely off computers.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+43I switched over to mac about three years ago. Now I'm one of those annoying fanboys, but I have to say - my macbook pro is heaven.. yummy yummy yummy.

  • fugazied, on 10/10/2007, -1/+37I have been a PC user for about 10 years. Dabbled with linux over the year and got my first mac (macbook pro) about a month ago.
    I'm working 20% faster on it, OSX is an absolute pleasure to use, I love the Unix backend, expose, the usability!, applescripts and folder actions. The Adobe suite is more stable and runs lightning fast on a mac.

    And the third party software is outstanding. Adium, quicksilver, vmware fusion (for those wanting to run other OSs on their mac).
    I'm trying hard to not become an irrtating mac fanboi, but it feels like the OS is 2-3 years beyond windows and the extra $ is worth it for the ease of use, stability, security and even the general aesthetics of mac!.

    The windows boxes for games, mac / linux machines for anything serious ;)
  • Shorties, on 10/10/2007, -19/+55Thank you poster, Just got my first mac last monday, I am officially a switcher. (And I am loving it!)
  • meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+36I would add growl to the list. Unbelievably useful and an absolute *must* have.
  • Shorties, on 10/10/2007, -5/+28I bought a New Macbook Pro (Which is just as beefy as your dell) installed Vista (Which I love been using it for months previously, I like it better then XP) installed some games played them a little and then went to play around on OSX... I haven't gone back to the windows partition since (That was almost 2 weeks ago).
  • Shorties, on 10/10/2007, -7/+28I really like iChat with the Chax plugin.
  • K3ITHK, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Commenting via US Postal Service then?
  • zeeky, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19they forgot unarchiver, transmission, inquisitor, safariblock, safari 3, iwork 08, perian(!!!)....

    and furthermore, some of those recommendations just plain sucked-- like Xtorrent, firefox, and NeoOffice. don't get me wrong though, i LOVE firefox on windows but safari kicks the ***** out of firefox on a mac...
  • xbuzz, on 10/10/2007, -5/+21i use to be one of those mac hating pc guys. what the hell was i thinking? i bought a mac book pro about 5 months ago and i'm in love. mac's are more then just a computer!
  • T0B1A5Funky, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Looks a lot like http://www.opensourcemac.org/ to me...
  • KingZoidberg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Just ignore them. There's a subset of Windows users that suffers from Mac envy, apparently. Either that or all the thirteen year-olds are out in force today.
  • bbschaefer, on 10/10/2007, -5/+20Take your flamewars elsewhere. No one was taking shots at PCs.

  • K3ITHK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Nevermind, it sucks. It gets nearly everything wrong.
  • greatcaffeine, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17I take it you're looking to buy one on eBay?
  • anjinash, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Wow, that's quite some flame bait you've got going there.

    Last month I was struggling with the choice between a nice amped up Dell with 4GB of RAM or getting my first Mac. I chose a 20in iMac with 2GB of RAM. I can't say I've regretted the decision much. I still have a PC with Vista and Ubuntu loaded on it, and I dual boot and run XP through Parallels as well on my iMac. It's the best of all worlds, really. There are things I don't like about Macs and there are things I love about them. Don't be so closed minded, Apple is doing some really cool stuff these days and to stick your nose up at it out of loyalty to your current OS does you no favors. Likewise, many Mac users are pretty stuck up and ***** all over Windows every chance they get. They too need to open their minds and stop being such dicks. Each OS has its' pros and cons, and by using several OS's you open up more possibilities than by sticking with just one.
  • nullx42, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12No, not stuffit 11. unless its pirated. Even if it is, The Unarchiver is 11 times better
  • landohlakes, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15I agree with Adium. This is the IM client to use on a Mac. They just released an updated version too (v1.1.1).
  • Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Dugg for calling them *Windows* users...
  • pyrophire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11It can...
  • rafaelmagu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Same here. Avid PC user that 'accidentaly' tried a MBP.

    Never looking back again.
  • kuyman, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Stuffit is horribly buggy. The unarchiver is great though, no problems at all.
  • irodman, on 11/20/2009, -0/+11I've been using ff2 on my mac and NEVER had a problem.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13... that works.
  • sneeka2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Since v0.80 Transmission is great. Lacks a few features compared to Azureus, but everything you need is in there and it's nice and lightweight.

    Agree with the parent's comment.
  • zeeky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10this list, there is something wrong with it.
  • fender06, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11ditto
  • adude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9The majority of my computer time is with Windows, but I have spent some time with a Mac, and this list proves something that surprised me once I got acquainted with the Mac: lots of great quality software. I had been under the impression that one of the disadvantages of Mac is worse or lack of 3rd party software. But nowadays, that's just not true anymore (unless of course it's some corporate or otherwise specialized software).

    Many of the applications are intuitive and even look good when they're freeware. Bravo 3rd party Mac software developers. Bravo.

    (And also, this list is pretty good. Usually I have heard of all the software on these "Mac software lists," but this one had some I wasn't familiar with.)
  • davidhildreth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10so fast and functional that it's safari
  • kbro, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I see for today:
    52% Windows
    23% Mac
    22% Linux

    http://fvvw.com/digg/

    Where did you get your statistics from?
  • chromerium, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9actually you're wrong. Stuffit is a POS. The unarchiver is great.
  • ajcates, on 01/20/2009, -2/+10nah its more like 5/2 of a pc, they load so much extra crap on there you don't need
  • nathanmock, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Google caught it:
    http://72.14.253.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fbestmacsoftware.org%2F&btnG=Search
  • anjinash, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Why on earth do people see the need to pick sides here? I just got my first Mac about a month ago and use it as my main rig at the moment, but still use my Vista/Ubuntu machine every day. It's not about picking sides, looking back or any of that crap... it's about opening new doors without closing old ones.
  • Shorties, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Perian, I forgot about that one, man that was a lifesaver!
  • jtbandes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9And TextMate, definitely.
  • KingZoidberg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Really? Funny how some PC users come into this thread and start bitching about how the Mac users are always complaining. What the hell are you doing here, anyway?
  • thebluesman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7iWork 08 is crazy cool
  • K3ITHK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Agreed, VMWare Fusion is teh pwn.
  • manitoba98xp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I, too, would like a Macbook, but I just thought I'd point out: the Macbook does use an integrated graphics card (GMA 950).
  • MikeTheC, on 10/20/2007, -0/+7Ok folks, based on this thread's collective recommendation, I tried Quicksilver. I read the online docs, read through the tutorial, D/L'd and installed it, and then put my Mac through the usual paces but using Quicksilver instead. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to bash the app, but I really didn't find it useful at all to me. I'm already doing everything quicker and more efficient than what Quicksilver does -- for the most part -- and for those tasks that technically Quicksilver *is* faster doing, well... it truly wasn't worth it. I guess by today's standards I just don't do enough on my Mac to derive any benefit from this program.
  • davidhildreth, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9because there isn't more sofware for Mac today then there was last year... and their marketshare hasn't grown...

    you're right it is a "lost format" like betamax
  • murphygr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7haha the last line there pretty much is a kick in the balls for the Apple advertising team. it's the opposite of what they're pushing Macs are FUNNN but Windows are BOOORING and professional only. i never got that, because i work on my mac and play on my PC
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