Imac

baron02 · 31 Mar 2012 at 10:06

Hi everyone

I got myself a iMac to use and so far quite loving it so far, What software do I need to use for photography editing and the essential applications that I may need.

Turbo-G · 31 Mar 2012 at 18:42

iPhoto is pre-installed, which is really good so give that a try first.

baron02 · 1 Apr 2012 at 12:04

thank for the response, is there any other applications that i may need to use for general day to day stuff ?

ubersonic · 1 Apr 2012 at 12:18

Having had my iMac for about a month now the ones I have found that I like are JustLooking (replaces the in built picture previewer one with a much better one), Adium (MSN/AOL/ICQ/etc client) which is better than MSN messenger for mac (which is buggy as hell anyway), Google Chrome (I prefer this to Safari, you can get Firefox too if thats more your taste), Libreoffice (freeware Office app, the sucessor to Openoffice), Handbrake for converting Video, VLC for playing what Quicktime can't and Totalfinder which is an upgrade to finder. The are alternatives to finder such as Forklift and Pathfinder however having them as extra file managers instead of the default one can be a tad annoying.

Finder is currently the most annoying thing about Windows to Mac transitions imo as not only is it vastly inferior to Windows Explorer but also to Linux Nautilus which is developed/supplied for free >.>

Feek · 1 Apr 2012 at 13:48

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divuk83 · 3 Apr 2012 at 08:43

Probably been using mine long enough to no longer be considered a switcher, but this is the software I use most.

Aperture 3, if you are wanting to do photo editing it's better and easier to use the PS Elements (imho).
EAC for ripping CD's to FLAC/WAV etc.
TAG for editing FLAC file info etc.
VLC for playing videos.
MS Office (only because I get it very cheap through work)

Dave