What do you guys have installed on your macbook

Rooky007

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What you have install for each of the following and what othe software you have on and what it does.... As I am new and i am still to be impress with it to tempt me to keep it...

IM
Email
Word Processing
Diary
Graphic software for Digi Cam
Web Design software for doing website and graphics.


What other software do you have on top of what i am intersted in above. I dont want Iweb.....

I use dream weaver at the moment on PC but wonder if ther is chaper option for mac...


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Now I have tried croos over not long ago with office 2003 and i really hate it so got rid of it right away did not like it at all. I dont really want to do a boot camp... But is parellel any good????
 
IM: MSN messenger for mac :p

EMail: Entourage now was Mac Mail but had issues with it.

Word Processing: MS word :p

Diary, MeetingMaker, but will be moving over to exchange any time soon so will all be in Entourage

And aint done any of the rest yet, apart from CS2 for just graphics work, and a trial of dreamweaver.
 
Rookies said:
What you have install for each of the following and what othe software you have on and what it does.... As I am new and i am still to be impress with it to tempt me to keep it...

IM
Email
Word Processing
Diary
Graphic software for Digi Cam
Web Design software for doing website and graphics.


What other software do you have on top of what i am intersted in above. I dont want Iweb.....

I use dream weaver at the moment on PC but wonder if ther is chaper option for mac...


............................................

Now I have tried croos over not long ago with office 2003 and i really hate it so got rid of it right away did not like it at all. I dont really want to do a boot camp... But is parellel any good????
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IM - Adium - This is a great heavily customisable multi IM client.
Email - Mail.app - Good enough as it is to be honest.
Word Processing - NeoOffice (Or Bootcamp to use OO.Org).
Diary - as in dates and such? iCal is brilliant.
Digicam Software - Photoshop - but only as I get a uni license. GIMP for a free alternative.
Web Design - NVU is a Dreamweaver equivlent for Web Development but if you want to get your hands dirty with code TacoHTMLEdit is goooooooooood!

Other than those I have Unison (Newsgroups / Usenet) VLC (Video Playback) AppZapper (brilliant unistaller to get rid of all those linked pesky files) Omnigraffle (Visio for Mac).

Rich
 
Fireskull said:
IM: MSN messenger for mac :p

EMail: Entourage now was Mac Mail but had issues with it.

Word Processing: MS word :p

Diary, MeetingMaker, but will be moving over to exchange any time soon so will all be in Entourage

And aint done any of the rest yet, apart from CS2 for just graphics work, and a trial of dreamweaver.
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Cheers is the MS Word for Mac?
 
titchard said:
IM - Adium - This is a great heavily customisable multi IM client.
Email - Mail.app - Good enough as it is to be honest.
Word Processing - NeoOffice (Or Bootcamp to use OO.Org).
Diary - as in dates and such? iCal is brilliant.
Digicam Software - Photoshop - but only as I get a uni license. GIMP for a free alternative.
Web Design - NVU is a Dreamweaver equivlent for Web Development but if you want to get your hands dirty with code TacoHTMLEdit is goooooooooood!

Other than those I have Unison (Newsgroups / Usenet) VLC (Video Playback) AppZapper (brilliant unistaller to get rid of all those linked pesky files) Omnigraffle (Visio for Mac).

Rich
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Hi

For GIMP have i got to have X11 installed too from my os x cd or??? newbie at all this ha ha

Also is entourage free? is it the MS Entourage 2004 as i cant find the download of it
 
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Rookies said:
How do you rate office 2004 for mac what is outlook like on it? Does it use more memory??
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No outlook only Entourage, and its all good lol (toolbars are abit different if you have been used to PC Office), but on a mac pro with 5gig of ram nothing makes it flinch much :/
 
titchard said:
IM - Adium - This is a great heavily customisable multi IM client.
Email - Mail.app - Good enough as it is to be honest.
Word Processing - NeoOffice (Or Bootcamp to use OO.Org).
Diary - as in dates and such? iCal is brilliant.
Digicam Software - Photoshop - but only as I get a uni license. GIMP for a free alternative.
Web Design - NVU is a Dreamweaver equivlent for Web Development but if you want to get your hands dirty with code TacoHTMLEdit is goooooooooood!

Other than those I have Unison (Newsgroups / Usenet) VLC (Video Playback) AppZapper (brilliant unistaller to get rid of all those linked pesky files) Omnigraffle (Visio for Mac).

Rich
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Is appzapper that good? As i may get it as i agree fed up looking for other files related to what i deleted... As I am newbie i am trying allsorts of software so i want to make sure everyting is uninstalled and not leaving any rubbish behind
 
IM: AIM
Email: Apple Mail
Word Processing: Neooffice
Diary: none
Graphic software for Digi Cam: aperture/canon DPP
Web Design software for doing website and graphics: iweb/nano
Othersoftware: Diablo 2, CS2, xchat aqua, flock
 
IM = Adium (not that I use it mind)
Email = Thunderbird
Word Processing = Neo Office
Diary = My business uses eGroupware, but I also have Lightening for Thunderbird installed too.
Graphic software for Digi Cam = GIMP
Web Design software for doing website and graphics = NVU, Dreamweaver and Fireworks

I also use Remote Desktop Connection to admin my customers Windows Servers, Parallels for Windows XP along with VirtuaDesktop, iStumbler for Wireless Network surveys, Handbrake for ripping my DVD's VLC & Flip4Mac for watching them, Chicken of the VNC for connecting to VNC servers and a few other bits and bobs.

It'd be worth your while checking out this page.

There's stacks of stuff out there.
 
ingouk said:
IM: AIM
Email: Apple Mail
Word Processing: Neooffice
Diary: none
Graphic software for Digi Cam: aperture/canon DPP
Web Design software for doing website and graphics: iweb/nano
Othersoftware: Diablo 2, CS2, xchat aqua, flock
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Can you use hotmail account on AIM?
 
Rookies said:
£500 for meetingmaker I dont think so... Want free diary but meetingmaker looks like what i want as i do put a lot of stuff down
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What's wrong with iCal? I use that and it syncs with my Sony Ericsson w800i, got all my lectures, club meetings blah blah blah all marked down and can even set it to alert me 10mins before events and such...

Also, there's sites like
http://www.icalshare.com/

where you can get/subscribe like "All UK Bank Holidays and Events" type of stuff synced with your iCal... very useful.

I find Appzapper a bless from heaven.
I've used it right from the start of my Mac experience, a mate of mine told me words and wonders about it - and it is that useful. Drag the unwanted app and all associated stuff in the library is gone... so far, I've yet had any issue...
 
I have found NVU NOT being very realible it not opening as it should... Have read on NVU site that it not compatible with Intel macbook it can work but not fully.

When I open it it ok but when i come to open it again it wont unless i quite it and start again.

Anyone else with this problem?
 
Rookies said:
IM
Email
Word Processing
Diary
Graphic software for Digi Cam
Web Design software for doing website and graphics.
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IM - Adium
Email - Mulberry and Mail
Word Processing - Open Office
Diary - N/A
Graphic Design - Not really my thing, but I had GIMP (or whatever its called)
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