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22-04-2007, 04:21 PM
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Its not free but Textmate is a kick arse text editor, and was one of the things that pushed me over the line from Linux to Mac. Its great for programming, html, css, and general purpose text editing |
Damn, you beat me to it! 
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22-04-2007, 04:27 PM
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Chuck in Growl, Colloquy, XChat, and possibly Acquisition and parallels 
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22-04-2007, 04:44 PM
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That's impressive - I run Camino 24/7, usually with 10+ tabs open. The main reason I use it is because it's the only browser that doesn't leak memory and won't crash after several days of heavy browsing. Safari clogs up and gets re a ll yy sl o w, and it is about as stable as a drunk on a unicycle when you have lots of tabs/windows open. Firefox eats memory like it's some sort of drug. That leaves Camino.
It uses the same rendering engine as Firefox anyway, so unless you did something very strange, the crash was most likely a very badly coded webpage that would also crash Firefox (on Windows and Mac).
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Nicely argued response.  I have to say that I really don't have that many issues EVER but Camino was one of them (MREVO8; forgie and I are not arguing). My normal web browsing involves 4+ pages and about 40 open tabs. I can cope with Safari slowdowns after 12 hrs (of intensive activity) but crashing pisses me off. Camino just didn't work for me.
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22-04-2007, 05:47 PM
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Nicely argued response. I have to say that I really don't have that many issues EVER but Camino was one of them (MREVO8; forgie and I are not arguing). My normal web browsing involves 4+ pages and about 40 open tabs. I can cope with Safari slowdowns after 12 hrs (of intensive activity) but crashing pisses me off. Camino just didn't work for me. |
Sorry for being OT, but I just thought I'd mention that Camino 1.0.x has a 3rd party session saver called CaminoSession, that will remember every tab/window that you have open, so if Camino/Your mac crashes, all you have to do is re-open Camino, and everything's back where it was. Camino 1.1.x has session saving built-in, but it is still in Beta.
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22-04-2007, 05:47 PM
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And what about
Mac the ripper for the dvd section?
cheers
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22-04-2007, 06:14 PM
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For compression section, I would actually include The Unarchiver. It has been great for everything I've thrown at it.
The Unarchiver
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html |
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22-04-2007, 06:33 PM
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Sorry for being OT, but I just thought I'd mention that Camino 1.0.x has a 3rd party session saver called CaminoSession, that will remember every tab/window that you have open, so if Camino/Your mac crashes, all you have to do is re-open Camino, and everything's back where it was. Camino 1.1.x has session saving built-in, but it is still in Beta.
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Nice tip
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22-04-2007, 10:55 PM
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Good thread. 
Maybe include ffmpegX for changing video formats (sitting somewhere between torrent clients and media players?).
And maybe a utilities/miscellaneous section?
- Whatsize - tells you which files are taking up all your hard drive space (very useful for a laptop).
- Chimoo Timer - stopwatch / countdown timer.
All 3 are free/shareware that I use fairly regularly. |
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25-04-2007, 12:34 PM
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Can somebody suggest a good news reader? And alternatively, a free one?
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25-04-2007, 12:46 PM
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Need to add SubEthaEdit for text editors.
http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
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25-04-2007, 12:47 PM
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25-04-2007, 12:51 PM
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Can somebody suggest a good news reader? And alternatively, a free one?
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Thunderbird makes a decent newsreader. Although it seems very strange having Mail.app next to Thunderbird.app in my dock.... here's hoping Apple add newsgroups to Mail 3!
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25-04-2007, 01:03 PM
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Carbon Copy Cloner for backup
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04-05-2007, 11:30 PM
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this is a little off topic but sort of on topic :P
um, i use mac the ripper and Handbreak (runs so bloody slow for some reason - 2hrs for a dvd - slow to me anyway), but i was wondering, is there a PC equivalent of these two tools that i can use on my desktop?
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05-05-2007, 07:23 AM
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Under the Burning CDs and DVDs I would certainly commend VisualHub and UnRarX. Not only will VisualHub stitch together videos, convert from and to just about any format (including iPod) you can use it to burn five or six movies onto the one DVD disk so they can be viewed through a dvd player.
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