Comments on: The Real Deal 153: Mac software

Tom and Rafe talk about some of their favorite applications and utilities for the Mac.

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by mknox March 18, 2009 6:28 AM PDT: Hey Rafe,

Big fan of Evernote too. You mentioned on #153 that the Windows version does not support spell checking. Well actually, it does. Hit F7 and away you go. Not sure why it's not on any of the pull down menus.

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by avro105 March 18, 2009 7:37 AM PDT: I enjoyed the show but a bit too 90's business focussed for my liking. Lots of Mac software out there.

Some of the things I use and some alternatives.

Web Browser
OmniWeb - browse the Mac Way

Word Processing
Scrivener - Best writing tool ever.
Nisus Writer Pro
WriteRoom

Email
Mail - Integrates well with Bento 2
Mailsmith

Database
Bento 2

MindMapping
NovaMind Pro 4
OmniGraffle

Text Editor
BBedit 9

Personal Information Manager
Yojimbo- Web Pages, Passwords

Newsgroup Reader
Hogwasher

RSS Reader
NetNewsWire

Chat
Adium - my kids love it
Colloquy - IRC

Photography
Pixelmator
Photoshop Elements 6

Planning
Things
OmniFocus

Utilities
1Password -One for them all!
BetterZip - Compression
AppZapper - Completely remove unwanted apps
Twitteriffic - for all your Tweets
VersionTracker Pro - Keep everything up to date
Skype
VMWare Fusion 2 - for Ubuntu or XP and much more
CandyBar - Change the appearance of Leopard
OmniDisksweeper - Where did the HD space go? and get it back

Maintenance - Yes, Macs need them once in a while ;-)
Drive Genius 2
Diskwarrior 4.1
Onyx - It's Free!; Like this Reply to this comment


by Patrick Gaerlan March 19, 2009 11:29 AM PDT: Tom and Rafe, great episode.

Rafe, check out Pixelmator for your photo-editing needs. I use it when I need something more powerful than what's built into iPhoto. It has a beautiful UI and is very accessible. It's not free, but I think it's a great value at $59.

Another nice app for determining which files are using up your hard disk space is WhatSize.

Thanks for the TimeMachineEditor recommendation, started using it right after listening to the episode.; Like this Reply to this comment


by mflag March 19, 2009 8:38 PM PDT: You should try Pixelmator for graphic editing. It's not free, but I know a lot of people very happy with this very nice app.; Like this Reply to this comment


by OnFire34 March 25, 2009 2:20 AM PDT: Really surprised that when discussing basic image editing, neither mentioned preview. Cropping, rotating, resizing, brightness, exposure, contrast, etc. can all be done in preview.; Like this Reply to this comment

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