Comments on: Making The Move: “Must Have” Apps for Your Fresh Leopard Upgrade

By: marbles

marbles — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:28:48 +0000

no mention of Little Snitch,..it’s a must have for any mac surely?

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:30:17 +0000

Have you had any issues with the Western Digital Scorpio? I’m wondering because of this:

http://www.macspecialist.org/content/articles/macbook_pro_owners_beware/

By: Adam Edelstein

Adam Edelstein — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:34:30 +0000

for text editors I have an even better solution for you; and given that you also had xcode it made a lot of sense for me to mention:
aquamacs yes you already have emacs installed if you went to the terminal, but this adds lots of extra prettys and basically is a superset.

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VMware Virtualizing No-hack Leopard Server — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:11:09 +0000

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:37:20 +0000

Thanks so much for this list. I’m sure you have many other things to write about (mark), but as a migrating PC user, lists such as this are invaluable.

By: Gloubibou

Gloubibou — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:17:53 +0000

@boB:

iStats’ calendar has been updated in recent versions. I find it to be much better looking. I love the world clock. What it is lacking, is iCal integration. For that I use the “iCal Events” widget.

It took me years to grasp why 1password is better than the keychain. It is: same passwords in all browsers, multiple identities for a single web site, password generator,… I used to have only 2 passwords and use them over and again. Generated passwords are much more secure.

By: boB Rudis

boB Rudis — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:01:09 +0000

Sorry, @Gloubibou, MenuCalendar’s calendar menu item is *waaaaaay* better then iStat’s (another reason I had chose MenuCalendar+MenuMeters combo previously). I’d probably use MenuCalendar still if it weren’t for the change in functionality under Leopard.

My “1passwd” is a text file in a secure disk image on my USB flash drive, only needed if I really can’t remember a username/password combo (which is rare).

By: Gloubibou

Gloubibou — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:50:45 +0000

+1 for iStat Menus. Especially for its menubar clock/calendar. The widget is gorgeous too.

Big vote for HoudahSpot 2. Leopard has improved Spotlight, but still nowhere near par.

Where is 1Password?

By: Kent

Kent — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:05:04 +0000

Thanks for sharing this with us. I really like seeing what apps other people are using, especially when the reason are given why they are used. Keep up the great posts.

By: Luca

Luca — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:55:35 +0000

I find it difficult to live without visualhub and Transmission. Definitely the best apps for the mac. ~and what is exactly wrong with the new iPhoto? The main differneces that i see is events and being able to flag photos which is all benefit in my opinion…