10 killer Mac apps:
• Mac OS X: Let’s face it, there aren’t a lot of options when it comes to operating systems for computers, particularly if you want to run Mac applications. But Mac OS X is as good as it gets. Sure, there are things to be said for Windows and Linux. But in terms of malware risk, ease of use, and elegance, Mac OS X is largely what makes Mac applications worth using.
MacDailyNews Take: Mac OS X also saved the company.
• Adobe Photoshop CS5
• Fission
• Mozy
• SuperDuper!
• TextMate
• HandBrake
• Panic Transmit 4
• Corona Game Edition
• Google Chrome 5
Full article (slideshow) here.
Google Chrome 5?
A Doobie?
It’s funny; to elaborate on the MacDailyNews take a bit — I was thinking the other day of how the iPhone and iPad get all the attention today, but their development wouldn’t have been possible without the strong software foundation OS X provided, as well as the tangential effect of OS stability that OS X brought to Apple. It gained instant credibility and appreciation as a far more capable OS than OS 9 and offered a smooth, trouble-free computing experience that made consumers take notice of the Mac’s advantages over WIndows, luring more customers over to the platform and thus indirectly helping to accelerate the company’s recovery (which recovery had, admittedly, already begun earlier with the iMac). This renewed vitality in turn paved the way for the iPod, which in turn led to the iPhone. If I could wax horticultural for a moment — everything seems to grow organically at Apple, nurtured by patience and deliberation.
OS X does seem to be the unsung hero of Apple’s revitalized success.
Textmate the best!
Um, the only one I agree with is Handbrake.
haha, Sorry I haven’t touched Chrome since the latest Safari was released. Chrome crashes way too much, mostly due to Flash. meh.
This sentence confuses me: “Let’s face it, there aren’t a lot of options when it comes to operating systems for computers, particularly if you want to run Mac applications.”
I dont get it. Are there other options than windows if you want to run windows applications?
Graphic Converter from Lemke
Photoshop CS5 is a rip-off. I only use Pixelmator, which does everything that Photoshop can do.
Sure, there are things to be said for Windows
And after saying them, your mother would wash your mouth out with soap.
Adobe CS 5 has more bugs then an ant hill.
Re: Photoshop
If you’re interested in pasting a frog’s head onto the shoulders of your ex-boyfriend, use Graphic Converter. It’s very inexpensive.
If you want pro-quality fine adjustments to your photos, use Aperture. It’s far easier to use with better results, costs less, and works seamlessly with your other Mac apps.
iWork
It’s a “must have” so you can take your friend’s lame Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and turn them into something modern and attractive with very little effort and cost.
All wrong, and obviously from a non-Mac user. Here’s a better list:
1) Mac OS X
2) iLife 09
3) Safari
4) Pages
5) HiJack Pro/Fission
6) Pixelmator
7) LogMeIn
That’s it, you really don’t need more.
Photoshop CS5? you’re kidding, right? Yes, it has some amazing features. But visit the user forums on the Adobe site for the CS5 suite for both Mac AND Windows. The users are boiling over with rage against the machine. CS 5 is a train wreck. You can’t scan or print. It breaks all the filters. It has memory leaks as big as Texas. And it crashes,crashes, crashes.
And guess what it was built on top of as its development environment? You guessed right: Flash.
Users are furious. Almost everyone is downgrading to CS 4. I don’t know why there hasn’t been a class action lawsuit yet. Essentially, customers have paid up to and over $1,000 to be early beta testers.
Adobe is nonlinger the company we once knew and trusted.
#FAIL
Sent from my iPhone. My apologies for any auto-correct typos.
Who says web apps are the future? Palm thought so and look at them. I think a case could be made that native mobile apps are.
@qka,
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11. MS Word
12. Macspeech Dictate
MDN: “Mac OS X also saved the company.”
Actually, I think Steve Jobs saved the company.
I have gotten every Photoshop upgrade since PS4 but passed on CS4. I got CS5 when it came out but now feel like it still wasn’t ready. Full of bugs. The healing tool in CS5 can leave tiny artifacts behind (at any of the brush settings). The Quick Selection tool will be very useful if it ever gets out of beta. They changed the icons for the sake of change and managed to make them much harder to distinguish. I could go on, but you get the idea.
Adaobe, face it. Photoshop is a patchy, disorganized, unintuitive hairball that takes years to master. The manuals/tutorials are so badly written an entire industry of PS help has sprouted, and I wish my memory cells full of Photoshop were full of something better. Adobe should shitcan this product and start over from scratch. Perhaps somebody else might.
I don’t even think this guy wrote this. This nearly identical list has periodically popped-up for the last few years. Boring
@spinoza2: Good list. This article and list suck. Handbrake is pretty good, and Transmit is very good, but the rest of it? What a lame list.
Web apps are the future? So when there’s no internet connection (for whatever reason) your device is an expensive paperweight and you can’t play or work? That’s not a future I have any use for and I think that business who are basing their plans on such a future are idiots. I live in a semi-rural part of the country – not some big city – and there is no such thing as an always-on, available-everywhere connection, even on Edge.
Killer App #11 is the Apple Store app. Yesterday morning I used it to find an Apple Store near me with. Short queue for reservations and this morning Saturday July 24 before they even opened I received notice they were holding my iPhone 4 for me – less than 24 hours after I made my reservation – and now I have it!
SuperDuper!..1Password…AppCleaner…ClamXav…freePhotoConverter…Pixelmator…SpamSieve…Snapz Pro X… That’s my eight.
Sorry- nine…iSquint