MPlayer. It plays things VLC won't. It hasn't been updated in a long time though while VLC continues to improve its interface. Also VLC is better for DVDs and other disc formats. They're a good team!
Gimp, who the hell uses this? Find me somebody who designs or manipulates photos, and has anything to there name who uses gimp. It's horrible backwards user interface, it should die.
This is a list of people who use the Gimp fork: CinePaint (previously called Film Gimp) taken from http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net
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Studio Users
CinePaint is in use at many studios. Rhythm & Hues maintains its own internal version, still called Film Gimp, and periodically sends their source code to us.
* Rhythm & Hues: Harry Potter, Cats & Dogs, Dr. Dolittle 2, Little Nicky, Grinch, Sixth Day, Stuart Little, and Planet of the Apes
* Sony Pictures Imageworks: Stuart Little II
* Hammerhead: Showtime, Blue Crush and 2 Fast, 2 Furious
* Flash Film Works: Duplex, The Last Samurai
* Computer Cafe: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The point of a RAM disk is to make a pseudo-disk in RAM, reserving a chunk of RAM for it, so you have fast access to it.
Except that the virtual memory system of MacOS X already does this without having to carve out a chunk of RAM for just that... it's called file mapping.
I find RAM disks useful when I am doing some types of multiple disk intensive things. For example, if I'm copying a lot of files or burning discs, and I want to open and play a movie file, my hard disk will choke and the movie will play choppy. If I put the movie into a RAM disk and read it from there, everything works fine.
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osirix
Fantastic DICOM viewer - just reached 1.1 after 6 months development!! Runs great on 15' powerbook. Really amazing he gives it away - and the source!
I'll second what people have to say about DesktopManager, SubEthaEdit and Cyberduck - great apps.
Chicken of the VNC is great too.
Great media player that runs just about everything, even most Windows Media Files.
Originally posted by Aquatic
MPlayer. It plays things VLC won't. It hasn't been updated in a long time though while VLC continues to improve its interface. Also VLC is better for DVDs and other disc formats. They're a good team!
some one already did Epyon
Originally posted by mattjohndrow
some one already did Epyon
Oh...
Well mine has a link.
http://www.develux.com/tuxgames/
I tested all three and they all seem to work fine with Panther. Tux racer is the best of the bunch IMHO.
Enjoy!
Great cloning utility, I use it almost daily.
I use it for adding icons to all those damn generic files I get from stock photo sites.
Pod2Go
Auto download news, weather, movie info, etc for your iPod!
Audacity
Simple waveform sound editor. Nothing terribly fancy but works good for the simple stuff I need to do. Like Amadeus or SoundEdit16 but its free.
Carracho X
Mac-only client/server like Hotline. For my umm... adventures on the high seas. Arrrrrr matey!
iChatStatus - essential for the iChatter
DRDial - Dial through speakers
And some others:
Colloquy - really sleek irc-client
OpenShiiva - nice VOB to Xvid/QT-processor
WireTap - record any audio playing
Firefox - great browser
Thuderbird - great mail client
Romeo - control stuff from your bluetooth cell phone
UptimeInMenuBar
MisFox - Missing Internet Settings
SilverKeeper - backup from LaCie
CronniX - cron GUI
Originally posted by webmail
Gimp, who the hell uses this? Find me somebody who designs or manipulates photos, and has anything to there name who uses gimp. It's horrible backwards user interface, it should die.
This is a list of people who use the Gimp fork: CinePaint (previously called Film Gimp) taken from http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net
Studio Users
CinePaint is in use at many studios. Rhythm & Hues maintains its own internal version, still called Film Gimp, and periodically sends their source code to us.
* Rhythm & Hues: Harry Potter, Cats & Dogs, Dr. Dolittle 2, Little Nicky, Grinch, Sixth Day, Stuart Little, and Planet of the Apes
* Sony Pictures Imageworks: Stuart Little II
* Hammerhead: Showtime, Blue Crush and 2 Fast, 2 Furious
* Flash Film Works: Duplex, The Last Samurai
* Computer Cafe: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
* Amalgamated Pixels: Elf, Looney Tunes
Originally posted by CodeWarrior
TinkerTool
It works great..thanks
PS
Free from Microsoft.
Originally posted by Existence
Microsoft Expression
Free from Microsoft.
Microsoft has something free!
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/mo...macintosh/9013
Graphic Converter - 101 uses, just try it.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/mo...acintosh/11559
(Edit: Sorry, I noticed later that this should be a list of free apps. These are shareware.)
Originally posted by Existence
Let's start a list of must-have OS X apps/utilities
For finding the aliens:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/macosx.html
For java development:
http://www.eclipse.org/
Originally posted by Kickaha
Just curious... what do you need a RAMdisk for???
The point of a RAM disk is to make a pseudo-disk in RAM, reserving a chunk of RAM for it, so you have fast access to it.
Except that the virtual memory system of MacOS X already does this without having to carve out a chunk of RAM for just that... it's called file mapping.
I find RAM disks useful when I am doing some types of multiple disk intensive things. For example, if I'm copying a lot of files or burning discs, and I want to open and play a movie file, my hard disk will choke and the movie will play choppy. If I put the movie into a RAM disk and read it from there, everything works fine.