Comments on: My must-have Mac programs http://gigaom.com/mobile/my_musthave_mac/ Sat, 26 May 2012 02:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Richard Chacon http://gigaom.com/mobile/my_musthave_mac/#comment-405737 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:13:45 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/my_musthave_mac#comment-405737

James, you might try BonEcho, a optimized version of firefox for intel Macs.

I also recomend Audio Hijack pro, great application for recording and podcasting.
Linein is also a freeware app that allows audio pass thru from the line in jack to the line out.

I have a MacBook Pro as well, but my “fun” Mac is my Mac Mini hooked up to my Vizio 42″ LCD TV. Nothing like using Front Row and a program called DVD assist to play my personal DVD’s on a widescreen, with optical out to my surround system.

]]> By: Mike Cane http://gigaom.com/mobile/my_musthave_mac/#comment-405738 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:19:30 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/my_musthave_mac#comment-405738

Probably some duplication. I’ve sat on this for a few weeks, just posted it today:

Reference: Mac OS X Software
http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/reference-mac-os-x-software/

]]> By: Nikoooo http://gigaom.com/mobile/my_musthave_mac/#comment-405739 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:55:02 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/my_musthave_mac#comment-405739

For FTP there’s also cyberduck. Good free tool.

]]> By: Scott Sterling http://gigaom.com/mobile/my_musthave_mac/#comment-405740 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:09:45 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/my_musthave_mac#comment-405740

James, never mind, I figured it out. Cool. You’re new to Mac and already teaching me new tricks!

]]> By: Scott Sterling http://gigaom.com/mobile/my_musthave_mac/#comment-405741 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:04:15 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/my_musthave_mac#comment-405741

James, thanks for the response. I’ve been using Parallels since way before it was released, and I didn’t know about this feature. I guess you’re saying that its part of Coherence? What did you do to create the app-specific icon in the Dock?

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/mobile/my_musthave_mac/#comment-405742 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:20:11 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/my_musthave_mac#comment-405742

Scott Sterling, that’s because I ran Outlook from an Outlook Parallels icon I put on the Mac desktop. You can see it on the dock and it does show that it’s running. The generic Parallels icon on the right of the dock is the one I put there in case I want to run the entire Vista environment, something I now rarely do.

]]> By: Bill_in_Germany http://gigaom.com/mobile/my_musthave_mac/#comment-405743 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:11:45 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/my_musthave_mac#comment-405743

James – a good 3rd party utility to boost iSight brightness/contrast plus other goodies:
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/iglasses/

A free utility to manually control your keyboard backlighting:
http://labtick.proculo.de/

Free time-saving menu bar sound input/output selector: SoundSource – a must-try, James!
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/

Welcome to the Mac community!

]]> By: Scott Sterling http://gigaom.com/mobile/my_musthave_mac/#comment-405744 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:58:07 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/my_musthave_mac#comment-405744

Your photo of Outlook running on your desktop shows Parallels in the Dock NOT running. How’s that work??

]]> By: Terry http://gigaom.com/mobile/my_musthave_mac/#comment-405745 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:45:04 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/my_musthave_mac#comment-405745

Get steer mouse to provide much more functionality for your mighty mouse.

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/mobile/my_musthave_mac/#comment-405746 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:47:20 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/my_musthave_mac#comment-405746

I’m enjoying Filezilla on both the Mac and PC side for my FTP needs. Open source, works well and free.

Mike, although I’ve installed Parallels on the MBP, I haven’t used it for days (even when I have or had my MBP working, that is). I still get heavy use out of the Q1P as it’s the topic of a post that just went live…from the Q1P. You can go to bed now; we wouldn’t want you staying awake as we know how cranky that makes you. :)

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