Anybody else like to suggest their favorite "can't live without" software...
to start things here's mine:
Most people that know me know I'm a Photoshop junkie and that Bryce
and Garage Band rock my world. I'd be hard pressed to think of a
reason to own a specky mac if it weren't for these. That said I'd
still be sitting here at work on a mac so maybe these aren't my
"can't live without my..." software programs
So here's a few of free/share/demo programs that when I find my self
reaching for when I'm using other peoples macs I feel let down and
disappointed when they are not there or elated if they are there that
some other user has discovered them.
1st if Konfabulator <http://konfabulator.com/> and as they said when
they saw Tiger "Cupertino Start Your Photocopiers"
I've been using it for about a year now an I love all the helpful,
amusing and often totally useless widgets ( all those iTunes1,000,000
download count down widgets that are only a week or so old but
looking a little dated)
A recent additions are several light weight RSS widgets which
unclutter screen real estate compared to the well featured but overly
large windowed "NetNewsReader"
2nd - if your wondering what I'm talking about when I say RSS all I
can say the biggest little thing to happen since IRC/gopher/www
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html>
lightweight hyper-text _when_ you need it.
3rd - Desktop Manager. A virtual screen desktop manager - A new one
for me I saw this being used on a laptop by a guy a few rows infront
of me at X-World now being using it for 4 days and have to install
it on both work machines as I'm already missing it when I reach for
it's shortcut keys.
I used to use Matoxes Virtual desktop in OS 8 and 9 but this blows that away.
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21594>
as an aside Konfab and Desktop Manager integrate really well in that
depending on how you set your widgets to behave (desktop, normal,
float on top) those widgets stay on the Desktop Manager virtual
screen you mount them on or follow you around your virtual screens.
which is far to cool to not be impressed by.
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Mark Secker Computer Support Officer
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University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
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"It takes an idiot to do cool things.... that's why it's cool"
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