[nylug-talk] My PC laptop dies. I am having to use a Mac.

[Ajai Khattri]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Henning Follmann wrote:

> If you want to administer a mac you better learn how to do it the "apple
> way". I found out that actually almost everything can be set with
> defaults and then it works quite good.

Yep, agreed.

> Darwin ports or manual compile/install here

For some things, sometimes its better to find precompiled packages (MySQL 
and/or PHP is a good example here).

> no, I hate it, but that said I hate {*}office in general. They all suck!

Yeah, but I get attachments in corporate email that don't open in vi :-)

So far, Ive gotten away with not having to install any M$ software at all.

> OK Gimp seems to be loved by the OSS folks and ok it's the best you can
> get but it still is not that great.

Nope and for most people its overkill. You're better off with Pixelmator 
(if you dont mind paying $59).

> There is also no decent replacement for Aperture or Lightroom.

One day Pixelmator might get there...

> get Handbrake too. 

Ah yes, forgot about Handbrake!

And I forgot a few more nice apps:

CocoaMySQL - GUI client for MySQL
Colloquy - IRC client
Cyberduck - FTP/SFTP/sftp client.
Gizmo / Skype - VOIP clients
Google Earth
Google Sketchup
Inkscape - open source vector graphics (needs X11)
Miro - open source video finder / player



-- 
Aj.