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New Macbook...must have apps?


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I use these regularly

acorn - image editing

pixelmator is a good alternative to acorn though, and a bit cheaper.

soundcloud app for dem tunes

microsoft RDP app if you wanna rdp back home to a desktop or something. Otherwise teamviewer or logmein for remote access back to a home pc

colloquy - irc client to use with chat :)

firefox - for when safari just doesn't cut it

beatport pro - better interface than beatport website

dropbox - for file syncing across devices

evernote - good note taking

XLD - audio converter / CD ripper

Audacity - recording stuff

Ableton or Logic if your into that sort of thing

textwrangler

caffeine - puts a little icon in the status bar, and you can toggle it to disable screen turning on and off. i mainly use it for when i'm mixing but want to keep an eye on my computer still

Office for mac 2011 if you want to edit word,powerpoint,excel etc.

Onyx - good cleanup program and system tweaker

besides those the built in apps (mail, calendar, notes, facetime, messages, iTunes, etc) are fairly decent in 10.8 and i just use those). the exchange support is good now so you can add any work email addresses / calendars in easy)

Any specific tasks you need to do, coz i probably know an app for it.

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there is a few options.

you can get an NTFS write driver for mac. paragon one costs money, there is another free one somewhere.

other option is if you have two HDDs mac can read ntfs. plug ntfs hdd with data into mac, and empty hdd formatted as mac. copy across to empty hdd.

or you can go oldskool fat32 but it wont fit HD movies due to 4GB per file size limit

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