name the applications you couldn't live without, any gems you've stumbled across. I always get sidetracked when I go to look for free software, because most of it is quite specialist (workflows for Photoshop etc), not just general use

anyway

- iSerial Reader. easily the best thing I have. after a week of using it, you'll be glancing over your shoulder for fear of angry developers.

- iCal ... I just realized you can use this to schedule events on your computer, ie. tell it to run an Automator flow or Applescipt at 8am to wake up to internet radio or whatever. Just go to 'create alarm'. btw, the Energy Saving panel in system prefs lets you schedule startup or wakeups and shutdowns and sleeps

- GoogleEarth Beta... yes, you can get it on Mac. If you've not tried this, you need to. Satellite images with different layers of detail mapped over a 3D model of the whole globe. 'Fly To' any location, find your house, find where JFK got shot (with 3D buildings), switch on all sorts of markings like stations, roads, borders, historical info, webcams. I typed in 'Area 51' and it started zooming in on Nevada... then crashed, lol. Worked eventually though. I don't think this is officially available from Google... inbox me if you can't find it

- Adium... as someone else put it, "iChat on crack". Supports all the messengers (MSN, AIM etc)

- ffmpegx. Shareware program (*cough*iserialreader*cough*) that can take almost any video format and convert it to almost anything else (in theory... I found that .rm files only converted directly to .avi files). Also has loads of detailed encoding settings like resolution and aspect if you need them. Can rip audio out of videos and stuff like that. Can also play files itself.

- D-Vision. Shareware. I use it to combine AVI files into one big file.

- Limewire. Best and fastest thing for downloading songs and popular files

- Azureus. Bittorrent client

- ircle - internet relay chat client. Mainly worth mentioning because of the stuff you can get on irc... google: #macfile

- ssx - Soulseek program. (i think it's called SoulSeeX in full... which is distinct from SoulSeekX, which is a piece of crap) Very nice interface and fully functional. I've not used it much so I'm not sure if it gets search results and downloads as well as it should. But at least you don't need to install FINK or anything like for Nicotine.

- soulseek classic - Soulseek client for Mac OS 9. Obviously you can run it on Classic mode. This is what we used before someone invented a decent OS X client (even now, those others require 10.3 or higher I think). Doesn't support chat, uploading, or browse host... but I got a hell of a lot of stuff of it nevertheless. I think it may even let you cheat a bit in terms of queing.

- Chicken of The VNC. Use this to remote control your mac (first switch on Apple Remote Desktop in the target Mac's Sharing preferences. you can download the ARD client from apple if you don't have it already). It runs the target computer's screen inside a window of the remote computer.

- Salling Clicker. Shareware program that lets your Bluetooth mobile phone control the Mac. It has a bunch of scripts to run commands for most common programs (and you can add your own), and can do various other cool things like proximity detection - ie tell iTunes to pause when you leave the room, with your phone obviously, or when you receive a phonecall. Incidentally, OS X has bluetooth remote control built in. Just go to the bluetooth settings on your phone, then 'remote control' then choose your computer from the device list (you'll need to pair the devices from the bluetooth Mac menu first). It has basic controls for programs, and you can control the mouse with the minijoystick.

- 'Create Disk Image' automator workflow. Makes a file into a .dmg, which means your computer can recognize it as a drive or an inserted disc. Or you can use Toast to mount it as a CD in the CD drive. Get your Automator flows from www.automatorworld.com

- Xkeys. Basically lets you assign your function keys to do anything, like open a program, or run a script, and other things i've forgotten, finder operations probably. I used to have F10, F11, F12 set to play/pause, bck skip, fwd skip on iTunes (I think they were actually applescipts it was rrunning. Get your applescripts at www.dougscripts.com). It runs in the background invisibly all the time. Doesn't show up in the dock, only in the Force Quit menu and system prefs.

- you know you can make .zip files by right clicking (control clicking) and selecting 'create archive' ?

- Google Maps widget. works in all countries supported by google maps. gets the maps without having to open the webage

- SysStat widget. gives you readouts on ram usage, disc space, network activity, CPU activity, bandwidth usage, uptime. you can minimize the info you don't want to see always

- obviously you'll want to visit divx.com to get your codecs to play avi files

- you can force an application to open a file by holding the apple key and dragging the file to its dock icon

- you can connect straight to ftp (and afp and other) servers from the 'go' menu, or pressing command-k. often neglected

- Terminal lets you access a good command line text editor called Vim. You can do things like compare two similar text files side by side with the differences highlighted

you should be able to find all this stuff easily by googling

please mention any that you know

and happy new year motherfukas

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

i got one

easyWMA- converts WMA files to mp3 files

*****
i dunno.

i've been looking for something like that for a while

i never listen to The Adventures of Slick Rick because it came out of Soul Seek in wmv format

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

*****
i dunno.

click one of the numbers (try to get the correct version)
and it copies it to the clipboard automatically
then you go to register the program (enter serial number), and paste into the text box
sometimes it will give you more detailed instructions on how to crack the program

it's just a database of names and numbers though, it doesn't do anything by itself

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

*****
i dunno.

hwit.host.sk

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

does the trick.


www.Flip4Mac.com

*****
i dunno.

that leaves a watermark on videos

QT w/ Flip4Mac never gives me a watermark and it handles Divx and WMv and Divx much better and more consistnatly than VLC.

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"I'm so glad I got my own
I'm so glad that I can see
my life's a natural high
the man can't put no thing on me" (c) Curtis Mayfield

or when you convert movies to watch on the ipod

Worst reason to have not listened to adventures of slick rick ever.

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http://www.widgetwidget.com/magnumopus/

makes cool arse icons for your mac os

not a prog but a fun site to customize your mac

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you can set this program to automatically bid for you, say, in the last 5 seconds of the auction. that way other ebayers don't have a chance to outbid you (unless they put in a higher ceiling bid than you anyway... but by waiting til the dying seconds you can lull them in to a false sense of security). good if you just plain forget to bid on things, too

also use it to keep track of your ebaying without opening a web browser.

i'll tell you if it works or not in about 7 days

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

...or at least prohibited by eBay. Didn't someone use a similar program to win Elmo dolls when they were all the rage.

Mech

this one didn't work anyway but i don't think i set it up right

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

what im running....

firefox - when safari doesnt work
shiira - super fast web browser
cocoalicious - read your del.icio.us tags in a better format through this program
azureus and bittorrent - for my torrent files
adium (with domokun icon) - for aim. much better than ichat.
snes9x - snes emulator (never bored w/ my laptop)
thunderbird - email reader..i dont really use it much anymore tho.
limewire - for downloading single mp3s
smultron - dope free html editor
traktor djstudio - dj software
sidenote -notetaking software(sits on the side of your screen, roll over it and it comes out..dope)
mbeat - kinda like synergy, puts itunes buttons on menubar
senuti - rip songs off ipods onto harddrives.

more obvious software -
itunes
safari
microsoft word
dreamweaver/flash/
photoshop

for Shiira the page turning effect and tab expose feature are brilliant... unfortunately my mac isn't fast enough to do them smoothly (unless there's something else disrupting it... let's see... yes it runs a bit better without iSerial open which seems to hog resources for some reason). It's cool how you can customize the skin a lot. Is it really faster? I've only loaded a few webpages, not sure that i noticed any difference. Maybe i need to let it build up a cache or something

but i installed "mini shiira" which is a little browser in widget form for the dashboard. it's supoib

now i just need to find someone with a fullly loaded iPod and invite them round to try Senuti

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

and it wont let me download it.


and adium is cool but their file transfer is very problematic. that's the only gripe i have about that program.

*****
i dunno.

i hate the minimized itunes box
this is perfecto

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At the very least, one can agree that having the people who have victimized you quantify your mistreatment invokes a sizable conflict of interest.

yo how do u u use iserial reader.

like i dl'd it. but it keeps asking me to open a file. so whats good?

*****
i dunno.

that's the database actually, the file you open, iSerial Reader (and SerialSeeker) are programs that read it
the last release of serial box was 12/05
you'll be able to find it on google, or if not, Limewire

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

http://www.serialz.to/serialbox.html

*****
i dunno.

Gotta add VLC media player - for when nothing else will play that dodgily encoded episode of Lost you downloaded...!

Also, MacJanitor is great for maintenance stuff, especially if you have a laptop. And check out Comic Life - a fantastic little app that let's you make comic strips from your own photos, complete with speech bubbles, captions, etc. Great fun!

Oh and Stuffit Expander is pretty much a must have for all those who've recently switched - you'll come across .sit files everywhere in Macland.

•Acqlite- A good P2P app, what Acquisition should be, free, lightweight, and effective.

•NetNewsWire- THE BEST RSS reading app for the Mac. I heard it actually has the largest install base of any software aggregator, Mac or PC, but that was a while ago.

•Adium- See above. I do gripe about the file transfer, though.

•BuddyPop- Puts your address book contacts at your fingertips, with a beautiful interface.

•Quicksilver- I wish I could properly explain Quicksilver, but it's something like a launcher, but that's just the beginning. It's sort of (and don't let this description scare you off) a anticipatory graphical command line interface. It'll change the way you use your computer, and increase your efficiency by leaps and bounds.

•Netflix Freak- A great 3rd party client to control your Netflix queue, also allows you to do a lot of stuff you can't do on their site, like shuffle your queue.

•Synergy- My preferred iTunes control/display app, but I'm told there're good free ones that are comparable. I like this one.

•Camino- Also a good browser, along with Shiira, Firefox, and Safari. Actually a OS X native browser by the Mozilla folks, it's very nifty.

•1001- A good uploading client for Flickr and more.

•VLC- I think this program can play just about any media file.

•Butler- Kind of a launcher app, very interesting, play around with it.

•gDisk- Use your gMail account like a online drive.

•Handbrake- A great DVD ripping program.

•MymyspaceMail- Keep track of your Myspace messages, comments, and friend requests without all that gaudy bullshit.

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*****
i dunno.

QuickSilver link:

http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/

And make sure to check out the tutorials:

http://tinyurl.com/gmx8q

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and save the GoogleEarth.zip file to disc

hopefully it will work... i'm skeptical though. i think the router's firewall is messing things up

btw if you're inboxing me for this , best include a email address i can send to. i downlaoded it from IRC so i can't just send you a web address. see if that up there works though

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Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

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gmail didn't seem to send it, nor my other email account
i zipped it down to 12mb, and started uploading to yousendit.com
it's taking it's sweet time, but eventually the link should arrive in your gmail account
other people can use the yousendit link as well

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

lol.. how that happen? i bet google read my gmail and blocked it!! ..why else would it be blocked?

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Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

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or your mail?

ok... if all else fails... you can log on to EFnet using an IRC client
join #macfilez, look for the first user who has 'dcc' (those are the fileserving bots) after their nickname, query them saying 'xdcc list', then type 'xdcc #6' or whatever the Google Earth number is, and accept the file transfer. oh and don't say anything in the chatroom, they seem to boot people for talking lol

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

>ok... if all else fails... you can log on to EFnet using an
>IRC client
>join #macfilez, look for the first user who has 'dcc' (those
>are the fileserving bots) after their nickname, query them
>saying 'xdcc list', then type 'xdcc #6' or whatever the Google
>Earth number is, and accept the file transfer. oh and don't
>say anything in the chatroom, they seem to boot people for
>talking lol

huh ??? its cool i'll just get it when its out.. thanks for trying tho

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how do u get around the file transfer thing.

it really..sucks.

*****
i dunno.

download lighthouse 1.1.1. its an automatic port forwarder that has profiles set up for adium in order to use its file transfer feature. it also increases your download and transfer speeds of your torrent files as well

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MUCH better then using whats available to you in OSX.

best burning app i've ever used...
i've been using toast for 4+ years...
great app...

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http://live.xbox.com/member/soul%20shot%20ya

Lime Wire
3ivx
disclabel
Fluid.saver
Konfabulator
SMX 0.6.1
Serial Box 02.2004
Sherlock
SerialSeeker
Tone Heaven
VLC

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http://www.caminobrowser.org

I remember using an older beta verison, but it used to crash on me a lot...ended up going back to safari. Looking forward to trying this one out though when I get home.

and yes, I know I'm bumping a somewhat old post.

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Camino was my browser of choice before Safari arrived. it seemed like they had one person working on it on weekends, it was taking so long to upgrade

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

>http://www.caminobrowser.org
>
>I remember using an older beta verison, but it used to crash
>on me a lot...ended up going back to safari.

Me too. Well, I went back to FF, not Safari. I just can't make myself like Safari.



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fellowship:
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fellowship:
absence, Al_Tru_Ist, BreezeBoogie, dank_reggae, Drewmathic, Ir_Cuba, jacksonwonderland, LBs Finest, LML, Lord_Vingtune, MIAthinker, Robert, Roofdogg10, Sandbox194, Supnakga, thafuture, wonderl33

Cabos - Limewire/ wo the limewire bullshit. fast. incredible.

Transmission - small, lightwight bittorrent client. i used to rock azureus, but it would make my pb12" slug along. now i dl to my hearts content.

Shakespeer - by far the best DC++ client on the mac. my school has a robust DC++ network so im on it.

iSquint - transforms my videos from basically any type to an ipod/itunes compatible video.

Newsfire - dope dope dope RSS reader. ........but it costs $20, the software while good,is priced too expensively. if you dont cop, it nags you to no end. (so if anybody got a serial, or cracked copy. holla at me.)

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does it really speed up your computer that much???????

the site says it speeds up g3's. but will it do good for higher perfomance macs.
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best RSS reader by far. been playing with it lately, it is unfuckwitable.

color coded groups, easy, one-click setup, spotlight search!!!!, and growl support! its just dope.

it makes newsfire and NNW look like POS's. check it out.
http://kula.jp/software/endo/

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