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Old June 20th, 2005, 06:55 AM
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Mac essentials
I thought maybe we should start a sticky collection of software links for macs.

Note: I personally like the native OSX ports much better than anything running in X11.
My List:

1. Internet
WWW:
Firefox (www.mozilla.org)

Email:
Thunderbird (see above)

HTML Editor:
I'm currently testing NVU although I rarely work with WYSIWYG editors anyways.

Chat:
Adium http://www.adiumx.com

2. Multimedia
Video Player:
Videolan Client www.videolan.org
MPlayerOSX mplayerosx.sourceforge.net

Music Player:
iTunes (preinstalled)

3. Programming
Emacs (preinstalled)
SubEthaEdit (free for private use) www.codingmonkeys.de but has got some bugs (or features I don't understand).
MySQL www.mysql.com
Apache http.apache.org and PHP www.php.net. The versions that came with my 10.3 were very old, so I recomplied from source.

4. Other
X11 and Fink from www.apple.com (no deep link because they keep changing the locations)

Remote Desktop:
Microsoft Remote Desktop Client www.microsoft.com
Chicken of the VNC sourceforge.net

Bittorrent
The original www.bittorrent.com

That's all I can think of right now. Add your own favorites!

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An excellent front end to fink (kind of like synaptic for apt-get) is Fink Commander.

The best php/html editor I've found is Taco Editor.

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NeoOffice/J 1.1 has been released the other day.

This is Open Office 1.1.4 with the user interface ported to OSX.

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I hate NeoOffice. Did I claim they ported the user interface? Would have been nice if they did... X11 behaviour with a native Aqua look isn't really what I'd call "ported". Dropped the software because I am having enough fun already memorizing keyboard layouts Apple vs. IBMPC. Really don't need a third one.

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I would also suggest DarwinPorts as an alternative to fink however for most things I think fink wins hands down. Still, I think DarwinPorts deserves a mention here .

http://www.darwinports.org/

A useful tool for benchmarking your Mac, this seems to be the De-facto benchmark for OSX:

http://www.xbench.com/

As much as I like Audium I have to admit that it has its flaws and tends to crash more than I'd like. One very nice, stable alternative is Proteus (shareware). There are others though Audium beats them hands down .

http://www.defaultware.com/proteus/

Another great shareware app you might like; for P2P:

http://www.acquisitionx.com/

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1. Internet
WWW:
Firefox (www.mozilla.org)


How about camino (strictly mac browser from mozilla) There are some known issues with firefox and OSX, but camino is specially designed for OSX, and smoothly fits into the interface. It's also built for cocoa.
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i'd reccommend all the macromedia software:

dreamweaver
flash
fireworks
etc, etc.

i also like BBEdit and Taco HTML editer.
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A good very good cross platform media player, personally I use this for all of the stuff that quicktime & iTunes can't play .

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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Cyberduck A must for any web dev

and i have to say i love Safari when you got pithhelmet, it is the best ad blocker on any browser any platform i have ever seen, the only reason i prefer safari over firefox

and SubEthaEdit doesn't have any bugs i know of (unless you count unset/isset not showing up as php functions), i have been using that for a long time, you must not understand some of the features
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