Re: college, video game music, and the mac?

2009-05-27 Thread Justin Harford
Hi answers below First, what programs would be good for someone in college, where mostly word processing, and some spreadsheets are used? I guess either iwork, or open office is the way to go, here. LaTeX with TeXShop/TexLive which can be all installed through the mactex installer

Re: college, video game music, and the mac?

2009-05-27 Thread Ben King
On May Dear Arthur, My name is Ben King. I love my Mac quite a bit. I would suggest using IWork for your office application. As far as music programs go I am not sure. Some podcasts that have helped me out are the Screenlessswitchers podcast, the new Mac accessibility podcast on

Re: college, video game music, and the mac?

2009-05-27 Thread ben mustill-rose
I could well be wrong here, but wasn't there some discussion when ilife09 first came out about vo not working well with garageband? On 27/05/2009, Ben King benmartink...@gmail.com wrote: On May Dear Arthur, My name is Ben King. I love my Mac quite a bit. I would suggest using IWork for

college, video game music, and the mac?

2009-05-26 Thread Arthur Pirika
Hi all, a couple of questions, from someone who's seriously thinking of getting rid of a three-year old toshiba laptop, and entering the world of mac, finally. I've had a lot of experience already with the platform, thanks to friends, but now I want to make the switch for myself, but, before i

Re: college, video game music, and the mac?

2009-05-26 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, note: Using a free program called Virtualbox or a non-free one called VMware Fussion you can run a light-weight Linux like Ubuntu on your Mac as well to use OOO Openoffice.org Writer Etc. Regards, Alex, On 26-May-09, at 6:56 PM, James Dietz wrote: I don't use the mac for all of my