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Cajun. Mormon. Marine.April 14, 2005
Welcome to Mac Land
Devin just got his first OS X machine. I thought I'd make a list of a few helpful tools he might want or need. In no particular order:
- TextWrangler, a powerful but easy-to-use text editor, plus it's free!
- GraphicConverter, a useful tool for editing and converting various graphic file formats.
- WeatherPop: put weather and forecast information right in your menu bar (free for the basic version!)
- ChangeDesktop: automatically updates your desktop background with a random picture, plus it's free
- Huevos: hit a hotkey to search any number of search engines, or customize your own.
- LaunchBar: terrific keyboard application launcher. Not free, but well worth it.
Comments
You beat me to it! I was going to post a request for this kind of stuff, plus current annoyances/issues. For now, I'm using the RDP client to connect back to my Windows desktop to do work and log into IM.
Posted by: Devin L. Ganger at April 15, 2005 03:02 PM
Well, since you asked for it.
1. Get ABDialer (http://www.macronsoft.com/pages/en/abdialer.html) and you can use a script from Entourage to dial the selected contact. That means I can hit cmd-2 (address book), tab, "devi", ctrl+C to call you.
2. Use the script I sent you in email with Entourage to automatically grab and attach the front-most Word document.
3. Use the iTunes dock extension to give you dock control over play, pause, etc.
4. Go to www.macosxhints.com and www.macintouch.com regularly.
More as I think of it...
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at April 15, 2005 03:24 PM
Welcome to the dark side! Only one thing left, and thats to get a couple of Linux servers set up. Who knows, maybe even a FreeBSD box!!!
Posted by: Tim at April 16, 2005 07:51 AM
Oh, don't worry. My network at home is Windows and Solaris (less Solaris these days), so the Mac box fits right in. I was a UNIX and Windows sysadmin for most of a decade before Paul hired me. I've had Linux and the *BSDs in my network on and off.
Posted by: Devin L. Ganger at April 17, 2005 05:21 AM
