Lately, I bought myself a Macbook. And yes, I am completely satisfied. However, I have been working with various Linux distributions in the last years, but I have no experience with Mac OS X. In fact my biggest fear was not to find the applications I am used to. Actually, I have to admit that I found a solution for everything I need and now I want to share some of my experiences in this “Must Have” Software list:
- TextWrangler:
A text editor with every feature you want: Code Highlighting & Folding, massive support of programming and scripting languages, Visual Diff. It is not vi, but it gets as close as you can get. Finally, its native support of Apple’s Dictionary allows direct use of the system wide spell check and its thesaurus.
- Cyberduck:
A FTP/SFTP/WebDAV client: Beside the usual Upload/Download possibility, it can also sync directories. Direct editing of files is also possible.
- Adium:
The instant messenger on Mac OS X: It supports a variety of protocols (MSN, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk, Facebook…) and is extremely configurable by plugins (features) and themes (look&feel).
- NeoOffice:
Basically OpenOffice for Mac OS X. In contrast to the official version it succeeds in integrating the OpenOffice functionality with the Mac’s usual Look & Feel. However, I experienced some instabilities-as I experienced in OpenOffice under Linux as well.
More to come soon: A special post will cover the “Multimedia” apps, i. e. how to extend iTunes’s & Quicktime’s abilities. How to install and use native Linux applications will also be addressed in near future.
1 response so far ↓
1 Mac OS X goes Multimedia // Jun 5, 2008 at 10:16 pm
[...] promised, now a post about extending Mac OS X multimedia features. Actually, iTunes & Quicktime are [...]
Leave a Comment