Just Switched!

[acash0902]

I have finally switched and i thank everyone for answering my questions. I went today to the apple store to pick up my blackbook 2.16 ghz 2gb ram, 160 gb HDD, and i love it and my parents are amazed by its abilities. I got the educational discount, so i got 100 dollars off, apple care plan (3year) a free (red) nano, and a free hp printer. So far i love it, i'll be having pics up soon, including a video....
i cant think of anyhting to say, im just too excited.

Also could everyone who replies to this thread list an application that i should download, or any suggestions to an mac newcomer. I downloaded istat pro, and i love it.

once again i'll post pics later, as soon as i copy all my music to my itunes. GOD i love the way it arranges my music btw

 

[walkerj]

A free red Nano? Dang, all I got was a free printer when I got my wife's black Macbook, and nothing when I got my white one. Oh well.

Google for QTAmateur. It plays quicktime movies in full screen without having to pay the $30 for QT Pro.

For screen shots I use Snap 'n Drag.

 

[yosemite3]

Go to Apple and try out a few of the widgets there. You'll find them on the Mac OS X tab. There are some really cool, time saving ones, depending on what you need to have handy.

 

[iRye]

Congrattsss!!

 

[MaDDoG]

Congrats.
Onyx and App Zapper.

 

[acash0902]

thanks guys, any more suggestions?

 

[Stretch]

Adium for all your instant messaging needs

 

[acash0902]

will my mac automatically defrag itself?

 

[DoubleCap]

BBEdit - if you're doing programming/editing.
Smultron - Free alternative to BBEdit.
Chicken of the VNC and VNCServer - if you want to access your Mac from elsewhere.
AdiumX - for multiplatform instant messaging
MediaFork - for ripping DVDs/movies
Shrook - News RSS
MS Word/Excel/PPT/Apple Keynote/Pages - Word processing, spreadsheets, etc...
WhatSize - see whats clogging up your hard drive
monolingual - remove around 2gb of unused languages
Transmit - for FTP use
Armagetron Advanced - addicting game
Jumpcut - saves your pastes, so you don't lose them
Google Notifier - gmail notifier when a new email arrives, sits on the bar

or go here:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/
http://www.freemacware.com/
http://osx.iusethis.com/
http://macspecialist.org/content/articles/essential_apps/

 

[DoubleCap]

will my mac automatically defrag itself?

No need to defrag. Mac is built on a balanced-tree unix file system.

 

[xstep]

A free red Nano? Dang, all I got was a free printer when I got my wife's black Macbook...

That is a college student discount I believe.

 

[remain]

pasted from another post I made before (because me = lazy ;p )


Xee - image viewer
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee.html
Browse pictures in the same folder. Very customizable.

The Unarchiver - self explanatory ;p
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
Can unZIP/unRAR/un-almost anything.

Renamer4Mac - mass file/folder renaming tool
http://www.power4mac.com/renamer/ind...ge=description
Very useful if you're a neat freak and want to keep your files & folders well named. (Ahem... not me of course)

MenuMeters - CPU, memory, disk, and network activity monitor (in Menu Bar)
http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
I mainly use it to see my upload/download activity. Pretty customizable.


Oh, and one last one in my signature. ;p (Click the "Development" link.)

 

[notoriousvdh]

BBEdit - if you're doing programming/editing.
Smultron - Free alternative to BBEdit.
Chicken of the VNC and VNCServer - if you want to access your Mac from elsewhere.
AdiumX - for multiplatform instant messaging
MediaFork - for ripping DVDs/movies
Shrook - News RSS
MS Word/Excel/PPT/Apple Keynote/Pages - Word processing, spreadsheets, etc...
WhatSize - see whats clogging up your hard drive
monolingual - remove around 2gb of unused languages
Transmit - for FTP use
Armagetron Advanced - addicting game
Jumpcut - saves your pastes, so you don't lose them
Google Notifier - gmail notifier when a new email arrives, sits on the bar

or go here:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/
http://www.freemacware.com/
http://osx.iusethis.com/
http://macspecialist.org/content/articles/essential_apps/

this was really helpful. awsome.

 

[acash0902]

hey does anyone know how i can sort my groups on ichat non-alphabetically?