Finally made the move from windows to Mac

The moved to mac and asked for apps, not another round of the OS wars!

OP: You want - no, wait, need - LittleSnitch. Everything else is trivial. Start with the snitch!
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

Soldiers in the trenches of the Platform Wars: give it up! For many years, I too trashed talked windoze and even to this day, it is not my favourite savings syphon. BUT I did manage to accept, years ago, that it is just what people (many of them) need not because it is good or the people are stupid but it is because it's what those people know. Let 'em be.
 
NzbVortex = Outstanding usenet client

Scrivener = Favorite word processor
 
Linoman said:
Wait until the thing breaks and you need support from Core. I was just burned by this, this weekend. I will never purchase another Apple product while in South Africa. Not worth it!
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ditto

21k imac + 3k in software down the drain.
 
GreGorGy said:
The moved to mac and asked for apps, not another round of the OS wars!

OP: You want - no, wait, need - LittleSnitch. Everything else is trivial. Start with the snitch!
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

Soldiers in the trenches of the Platform Wars: give it up! For many years, I too trashed talked windoze and even to this day, it is not my favourite savings syphon. BUT I did manage to accept, years ago, that it is just what people (many of them) need not because it is good or the people are stupid but it is because it's what those people know. Let 'em be.
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Amen to that brother... Normally the "I just got my first Mac" threads are really helpful and informative. I look out for them specifically 'cos the OS change can be daunting and I like to do my bit, however trivial. This one went south real fast...
 
Wow thanks for the info, going to go through your list and probably end up downloading most of it as I need it, already downlaoded a few of the apps you suggested and they work like a dream. I must say without starting any fights that I can't believe it took me so long to make the change, after a couple of minutes I fealt like I had been using mac for years already, so easy to navigate and it just works! Thanks again for the help.
 
weelzSA said:
Wow thanks for the info, going to go through your list and probably end up downloading most of it as I need it, already downlaoded a few of the apps you suggested and they work like a dream. I must say without starting any fights that I can't believe it took me so long to make the change, after a couple of minutes I fealt like I had been using mac for years already, so easy to navigate and it just works! Thanks again for the help.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is as it should be. :D
 
@greg0205 Thanks for all the info, really useful. Just a few questions I have regarding installing windows (as I need two programmes to be installed for work), is bootcamp the best option to use or is there a better option? I have installed Office for Mac and so far it is working well, would you recommend I also get iWork suite as I use an iPhone and an iPad or would Office for Mac suffice especially with iCloud now? Lastly, I am recieving an Apple TV this week and would like to stream all the content from the iMac to my TV, I know how to set this up but wanted to know if there is a way to connet my iPad to the iMac without the use of another app? I have installed AirVideo to stream movies from the iMac to the iPad and it works fine but want to also stream the music ect - is this possible without additional apps or am I better waiting for the Apple TV? Thnkas again for the help.
 
After moving over too few months ago it's been great but I'm still looking for SQL for mac I'm currently running SQL 2008 on my windows vm does a good SQL exist on mac? if so where do I get hold of it.I like playing some classic mame roms and found mame os x but it it's does not pick up all the roms I play through Neo rage what emulator is equal to Neo.here is a few apps I found nifty moving over

hyperdock - for the aero of win7

herald - a notification window for mail like outlook uses

pathfinder - dual pane finder like explorer

do you mac experts know what else we noobs can use
 
Some apps I couldn't live without:

- Quicksilver
A free graphical shell for using the keyboard to accomplish any number of tasks.

- Dropbox
Free Mac client for Dropbox syncing.

- 1Password *
A commercial password storage program

- Pixelmator *
A commercial photo editing/graphical program.

- MacVim
Mac port of gvim.

- Handbrake
Free video transcoding tool.

- GeekTool *
A free app for adding dynamic content to your desktop.

- VMWare Fusion
Commercial virtulization.

- Omingraffle *
Fantastic commercial drawing tool.

- Perian
Free Quicktime Component that extends playable codecs in Quicktime

- Plex
Free media center server and client

- Homebrew
A fantastic free command line tool for installing most unix source packages.

* = available in Mac App Store

People$champ said:
After moving over too few months ago it's been great but I'm still looking for SQL for mac I'm currently running SQL 2008 on my windows vm does a good SQL exist on mac? if so where do I get hold of it.
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PostgreSQL comes preinstalled on OS 10.7
 
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weelzSA said:
@greg0205 Thanks for all the info, really useful. Just a few questions I have regarding installing windows (as I need two programmes to be installed for work), is bootcamp the best option to use or is there a better option? I have installed Office for Mac and so far it is working well, would you recommend I also get iWork suite as I use an iPhone and an iPad or would Office for Mac suffice especially with iCloud now? Lastly, I am recieving an Apple TV this week and would like to stream all the content from the iMac to my TV, I know how to set this up but wanted to know if there is a way to connet my iPad to the iMac without the use of another app? I have installed AirVideo to stream movies from the iMac to the iPad and it works fine but want to also stream the music ect - is this possible without additional apps or am I better waiting for the Apple TV? Thnkas again for the help.
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Stick to Office if you already have it, just get DocsToGo for your phone and pad.
As far as Bootcamp goes, I'd also have a look at Parallels. It's an emulator which allows you to run Lion, Windows or Linux. Each has their pros and cons and it really depends on what you'll be using your machine for.
AirPlay should cover streaming from all your devices to the Apple TV and it's built in.
 
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A couple of things I forgot:

- nvALT
Brett Terpstra's excellent free fork on Notational Velocity.

- Automator
A built-in app that lets you access numerous functions from installed apps and create automated workflows and services.
 
Thanks, I already have Docs2Go installed on my iPad. Yeah I have been told that I should also look at Parallels, I might give both a go and see which works best - will only use it for some light programmes, nothing too majour, only until I find mac equivelants. Thanks again for all the info, gonna have a long night ahead of me tonight :D

greg0205 said:
Stick to Office if you already have it, just get DocsToGo for your phone and pad.
As far as Bootcamp goes, I'd also have a look at Parallels. It's an emulator which allows you to run Lion, Windows or Linux. Each has their pros and cons and it really depends on what you'll be using your machine for.
AirPlay should cover streaming from all your devices to the Apple TV and it's built in.
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weelzSA said:
Thanks, I already have Docs2Go installed on my iPad. Yeah I have been told that I should also look at Parallels, I might give both a go and see which works best - will only use it for some light programmes, nothing too majour, only until I find mac equivelants. Thanks again for all the info, gonna have a long night ahead of me tonight :D
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Hehehe... I ignored everyone and everything for a day or two when I got my Mac... Far to busy playing.
 
weelzSA said:
@greg0205 Thanks for all the info, really useful. Just a few questions I have regarding installing windows (as I need two programmes to be installed for work), is bootcamp the best option to use or is there a better option? I have installed Office for Mac and so far it is working well, would you recommend I also get iWork suite as I use an iPhone and an iPad or would Office for Mac suffice especially with iCloud now? Lastly, I am recieving an Apple TV this week and would like to stream all the content from the iMac to my TV, I know how to set this up but wanted to know if there is a way to connet my iPad to the iMac without the use of another app? I have installed AirVideo to stream movies from the iMac to the iPad and it works fine but want to also stream the music ect - is this possible without additional apps or am I better waiting for the Apple TV? Thnkas again for the help.
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Have a look at https://www.virtualbox.org/ (Free)

Depend on the 2 apps that you need. I dont know about Mac but I use it on linux and it has a seamless mode where the OS background window disappear in and I place my Windows startbar on the side. I can then kick off Windows applications inside Linux and it still seams like its part of my normal desktop. Does not works so good with games but for general applications its all I need.
 
greg0205 said:
Great, now why not go post how to delete everything on your Windows or Linux machine for the peeps who don't know in those threads?
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Noob question, as I dont have a Mac, would it actually run that seeing that in Linux you need su 1st ?

No not trolling, actually very interested if it would do that or how you would get it to run that.
 
Elimentals said:
Noob question, as I dont have a Mac, would it actually run that seeing that in Linux you need su 1st ?

No not trolling, actually very interested if it would do that or how you would get it to run that.
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It's a recursive delete... tells unix to delete every file and folder in your root directory. I think you might get a sudo prompt in Terminal but that would be it... Game over.

EDIT: Looks like that little gem was deleted. Thank you mods.
 
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