Electronic Music 411 - aggh i have got a mac

link is the place to watch for new programs etc

NetNewsWire to handle RSS feeds, so you can subscribe and get automatic notifications from different blogs
miro is a video RSS reader, so you get video podcasts automatically. it's neat
Adium is an msn/icq client for mac
Transmission is a bittorrent client
Colloquy is a nice irc client
I use the web browser Flock which is based on Firefox, but has built in integration to Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook. It's awesome if you like those things.
QuickSilver is a quick way to launch commands, and is amazing, but it might seem advanced to begin with. Worth checking out anyway though
Growl is a notification system that puts little popup windows in the corner of your screen letting you know when different things occur (like downloads finishing, people mentioning you on irc, etc) (its configurable as hell, and a lot less annoying than it sounds)
link has a bunch of mac audio software

I'd strongly recommend subscribing to some mac related blogs, there are several that post interesting tips and info, and others that post the latest software releases and so on. I think a bunch of them come with NetNewsWire by default

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04/03/08 + dach

uh, Coda is the shit if you are into web design and programming

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04/03/08 + jp

and if you're working with text a lot try this:
link
the best word processing software so far. not free but cheap.

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04/03/08 + daswesen

the tools that have me get a mac again were:
- iwork
- omnigraffle

music wise there is:
- logic studio (don't use it, but that's some mac experience)

if you do video/gfx stuff check out
- quartzcomposer

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04/03/08 + ejectorset

quicksilver for sure! once you get used to it, and you use someone else's mac and they don't have it, its like OMGWTF DO I DO NOW?

and if you do any kind of coding, programming, etc. html, javascript, css, anything like that buy a copy of textmate. don't even think twice, just buy it, its incredible.

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04/03/08 + yghartsyrt

cool scrivener looks awesome. thanks jp. didn't know about that.

other great osx tools:
messenger: adium link
backup: superduper link/SuperDuper
rss: netnewswire

great spectral-processing plugIns: link
soundhack
great audiotools: link

that's the stuff that comes to my mind. still at work

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04/03/08 + dach

Does anyone know a keyboard shortcut for that little button in the top right of a window, the one that hides the applications toolbars..?

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04/03/08 + atum

non-fluff

04/03/08 + atum

congrats on the apple. you may start to notice your voice getting deeper, thats normal.

04/04/08 + krushing

dach said: "uh, Coda is the shit if you are into web design and programming"

Yeah. Smultron is my free choice for "casual coding" ie. just editing stuff irregularly, not coding for living. It also integrates nicely with Cyberduck (ftp client), which makes editing live sites a breeze.

04/04/08 + lematt

yeah ! you may be more than happy but you may start to realize you have to pay for ANY program now... and you will miss audiomulch and the thousands of free plugins that you were using, but you will realize too they were, in fact, unnecessary.

the lack of free or cheap apps on mac is really a problem, but commercial apps are 100x better than the one on PC (except audiomulch of course).

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04/04/08 + lematt

you'll love it: link

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04/04/08 + astroboy

lematt said: "yeah ! you may be more than happy but you may start to realize you have to pay for ANY program now... and you will miss audiomulch and the thousands of free plugins that you were using, but you will realize too they were, in fact, unnecessary.

the lack of free or cheap apps on mac is really a problem, but commercial apps are 100x better than the one on PC (except audiomulch of course)."

hm.
i only legally own protools LE and ableton live 6, the rest is freeware.
and i'm totally satisfied. there'a a LOT of useful freeware out there.

ah, ok, i also own some adobe stuff. my boss payed for it when i was wirking as a graphic designer.

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04/04/08 + krushing

lematt said: "and the thousands of free plugins that you were using, but you will realize too they were, in fact, unnecessary.
"

Yep. Probably 99,5% of them were shitty SynthEdit VA's anyway.

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