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Kemik

Kemik

Kemik

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Hey all,

Here's my current list of the programs I currently use and their alternatives for when I switch from Windows. Can you let me know if you see any better ones please?

Application: Windows - Mac

Browser: Firefox - Firefox
Music Player: iTunes - iTunes
MSN Client: Pidgin - ???
Microsoft Office: Office 08 - Mac Office 08? (mac office 08 seemed a bit slow on the MBP in the apple shop)
Web Development: Dreamweaver/e text editor - Dreamweaver/textmate
Media Playback: VLC - VLC?
Download Manager: FlashGet - ??? (must have login support)
IRC Client: mIRC - ???
Bittorrent: uTorrent - uTorrent?
Archive: 7-zip - ???
FTP Client: SmartFTP - ???
ISO/Image Burner: ImgBurn - ???

I've highlighted the main programs that I'm unsure or cannot find alternatives for.

Thanks.
 
Agree on MastermindUK's suggestions.

IRC Client - Paid: Linkinus, Free: X Chat Aqua.
Media Playback - Quicktime with Perian and Flip4Mac installed for most things, VLC for the rest.
Archive - Not looked into this other than downloading UnRarX for extracting RAR archives, I usually use the Zip support that's built into OSX.
 
Kemik said:
Browser: Firefox - Firefox
Music Player: iTunes - iTunes
MSN Client: Mercury - has webcam support and tabbed conversation
Microsoft Office: I use Mac Office '08 - No speed issues here!
Web Development: Dreamweaver/e text editor - Dreamweaver/textmate
Media Playback: VLC is the way forward.
Download Manager: Wouldn't know, don't use one. Safari or Firefox's download managers are fine.
IRC Client: Don't use.
Bittorrent: Transmission
Archive:Eh?
FTP Client: Fetch
ISO/Image Burner:Built in disk utility? if not then Toast - I use toast, toast is good. We love toast :D
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MSN Client: Adium http://www.adiumx.com/
Media Playback: Perian (codecs for quicktime) http://perian.org/
IRC Client: Colloquy or http://colloquy.info/ or X-Chat http://sourceforge.net/projects/xchataqua/
Bittorrent: Transmission http://www.transmissionbt.com/
Archive: Stuffit expander http://my.smithmicro.com/win/stuffitexpander/index.html
FTP Client: Cyberduck http://cyberduck.ch/
ISO/Image Burner: Burn http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/

Also check this list out, might give you some useful links:
Top 100 Mac apps
http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/01/top-100-essential-mac-applications.html
 
I've found that Tomato Torrent is a pretty good bit torrent client!

Since beginning my mac oddysey I've managed to find alternatives to (although generally these have turned out to be better than) the windows app i've been using with one exception - a PDF editor....

So.... If anybody has any recommendations let me know!
 
A whole list of applications is available in the sticky :cool:

For web browsing, try Safari first.

Firefox on the Mac is crap in comparison to the windows versions.
 
Application: Windows - Mac

Browser: Firefox - Firefox
Music Player: iTunes - iTunes
MSN Client: Pidgin - Pidgin/Adium
Microsoft Office: Office 08 - Office/Neo/Pages
Web Development: Dreamweaver/e text editor - Coda/textmate
Media Playback: VLC - VLC
IRC Client: mIRC - Colloquy/xChat
Bittorrent: uTorrent - uTorrent (one day....) in the mean time, I use Azureus
Archive: 7-zip - 7zip/The Unarchiver/Stuffit Expander
FTP Client: SmartFTP - Transmit/Coda
ISO/Image Burner: ImgBurn - OSX Disk Utility/Toast

edit: EVH, Firefox betas are great in OSX - way better than memhog Safari
 
Just to say thanks for the suggestions of Transmission and UnrarX.

Transmission is very simple with a lovely interface, can't believe I've not tried it before.

UnrarX is also a very simple piece of software that does the job much quicker than any winRaR/Winzip application I've come across before!

Thanks :D
 
itsallaboutyou said:
I've found that Tomato Torrent is a pretty good bit torrent client!

Since beginning my mac oddysey I've managed to find alternatives to (although generally these have turned out to be better than) the windows app i've been using with one exception - a PDF editor....

So.... If anybody has any recommendations let me know!
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PDFClerk and PDF Studio are fairly good apps.
 
Check out the Your Programs! thread it's pretty similar to what your looking for. You can see what a lot of the OS X users are using for each purpose. Here's the link.

Dev
 
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