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Best Applications for my Hackintosh!


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Oh i love my hackintosh! after I installed it on my system, i damn forget about that windows {censored}.. few hours, or days passed, i managed to migrate completely & found essential applications that i use like in windows, so here they are!

 

 

Listening Music

iTunes (...is there more good than this one?) - freeware

 

Media Player

VLC Media Player - freeware

 

Internet Browsing

Firefox 2.0 (because it has many plugins... i love it!) - freeware

 

Office Applications

Microsoft Office 2004 - payware

 

CD/DVD Burning

Toast Titanium 7.1.2 - shareware

 

Instant Messaging

Adium 1.0 - freeware

Yahoo Messenger (because my webcam works there) - freeware

 

Torrent & P2P

Azureus 2.5 - freeware

Limewire Pro 4.12 - freeware

 

Zip/Rar Decompressor

StuffIt Deluxe 11.0.1 - shareware

 

 

 

 

Video Editing

Final Cut Pro 5.1.2 - payware

 

Audio Editing

Soundtrack Pro 1.1 - payware

 

Photo Editing

Adobe Photoshop CS3 - shareware

 

 

 

System Tweaking, etc

MainMenu 1.7 (easy system blah blah!) - freeware

MenuMeters 1.3 (shows ram, cpu & network meters on my top!) - freeware

Quicksilver - freeware

Appzapper 1.7 - shareware

 

Eyecandies!

FruitMenu (Changes my Apple & Contextual Menu) - shareware

ShapeShifter (the windowblinds of Mac OS X) - shareware

DragThing (adds customized docks on my desktop) - shareware

 

 

All these i find mostly on forums & *torrents* :)

well? how about you? what you are using on each category?

 

:D

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Here is my (first) contribution to your list (I've included some new categories).

Let's try to include only freeware/shareware apps (as much as possible)... ;)

 

Media Players

MPlayer - freeware

 

Office Applications

NeoOffice - freeware

 

CD/DVD Burning

LiquidCD - freeware

 

Instant Messaging

Skype - freeware

 

Torrent & P2P

aMule - freeware

 

Video Rippers/Converters

HandBrake - freeware

 

IRC

X-Chat - freeware

 

FTP

Cyberduck - freeware

 

Emulators

Q - freeware

Hi-Toro/E-UAE - freeware

 

BTW, does anyone know any free Audio & Video Editing apps for OSX?

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I like MPlayer the best, but VLC was great too. MPlayer seems more stable...

 

For Torrents I use Transmission - Freeware

 

For music I like Cog - freeware, but that's just bcoz I have many ogg vorbis and musepack songs.

If you have just mp3 stick to iTunes...

Other Cool APPZ ->

Seashore - image editor - Freeware

XFolders - finder alternative - Freeware

Minuteur - egg timer - Freeware

Max - cd ripping - Freeware

Gimp - image editor - Freeware (X11 app)

flvthing - play flv, something neither MPlayer nor VLC do well - Freeware

FFView - Image Viewer - Freeware

Mac The Ripper and DVD2ONE - Rip DVD's and compress to single layer - Payware

 

Backlight2 - Have screensaver as wallpaper (silly buy hey>)

XAOS - Real time fractal zoomer, fun!

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I use VLC all the time but i never tried mplayer.

But to let it play almost evrythibg without errors, i had to do a few thing first.

set video filter to deinterlace on. install flip4mac to let it play most of the mpg's. Set every video to open with vlc, didnt have to but i prefer 1 player for all files. And most important set output to opengl, without i ha to much crashes.

Now i havent a file that didnt want to play. Ok real audio files but i dont want a full packet of {censored} on my computer, realplayer = {censored}.

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Utilities: SideNote, iTerm, MenuMeters, Awaken 3 *payware*

Torrents: Transmission 0.7svn, Azureus 3

Mail: Apple Mail

Editing: TextMate *payware* must-have, Vim

Media: VLC 0.8.6

Internet Browsing: Firefox 2.0.0.1 intel, OmniWeb 5 *payware*

Messaging: Adium, Colloguy, Skype, IRSSI

File Browsing: PathFinder 4.6.1 *payware* must-have

Photo Browsing: iPhoto, ViewIt *payware*

Music: iTunes 7

Photo Edit: Adobe Ps 3 beta *beta*

FTP/FTPS/SSH: YummyFTP *payware* must-have

Uninstall: AppZapper 1.8 *payware* must-have

Office: M$ Office 2004 *payware*

CD/DVD Burning: DiscBlaze *payware*

Tweaking: Mac Pilot *payware*

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I like MPlayer the best, but VLC was great too. MPlayer seems more stable...

 

For Torrents I use Transmission - Freeware

I found the opposite. On Linux mplayer was king, but here on OS X I find VLC much more stable.

 

For torrents after trying Tranmission, Tomato, Bittorrent, I've settled with Azureus. (It's just so feature packed and reliable.)

 

Edit: Switched to Transmission some time ago. Newer versions are much better and SVN .80 version has selective downloading which I wanted.

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