eldergeek Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 The following apps and databases kept my XP partition alive but no more. I wanted to share because I do think it will help some people: Total Commander - Disk Order http://www.likemac.ru/english/ I know it's not TC but has FTP, burning, "zip as folder", tabs, batch renamer, customizable shortcuts etc. I tried all the alternatives including muCommander, ForkLift etc. Settled down with this one. Total Commander's lst plugin - CDFinder http://www.cdfinder.de/ The good old CDFinder but... I couldn't find any quick ways to convert my lst database so I now have to add every single backup DVD I burned to CDFinder's database! PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DO IT! Total Commander's Synchronize function - SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/Sup...escription.html Solid app. Total Commander's SFV function - MacSFV http://www.badlogicstudio.com/macsfv.php Creates and verifies SFV files. Total Commander's MD5 function - MD5 http://www.eternalstorms.at/md5/index.html Creates and verifies MD5 files. Acronis TrueImage - SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/Sup...escription.html TrueImage successfully backs up and restores Hackintosh partitions. I use SuperDuper! for my iBook. bbLean with bbKeys plugin - Spark http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/software.php?sign=Sprk Nice but I still prefer no GUI. TrueCrypt - Built-in encrypted image support Apps/Utilities/Disk Utility New home of my pr0n and personal stuff. VNC - Chicken of the VNC as viewer, built-in remote desktop server as server http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ OK but can't send files to a remote computer. I know Apple Remote Desktop can do, but it's slow and refuses to connect most of the time. WinRAR - SimplyRAR http://mac.majorgeeks.com/download5712.html Free app but you cannot find it everywhere because of copyrighted rar format. This app packs and unpacks multipart rar archives easily. Ant Movie Catalog - DVDpedia http://bruji.com/dvdpedia/ I have a huge movie collection which was kept in Ant Movie Catalog for years. I had to export the whole collection as CVS from AMC and import to DVDpedia. Saved me a "huge" amount of effort. Subtitle Workshop - Sears https://launchpad.net/sears OK app. Opera - Opera http://www.opera.com/ Easily carried my XP's Opera settings to OS X. See how: http://my.opera.com/neeraj_deshmukh/blog/show.dml/6579 Miranda - Adium http://www.adiumx.com/ Multi protocol messaging. Nice! uTorrent - Transmission and Azureus http://transmission.m0k.org/ Azureus only if I need partial download. Transmission for everything else. Comodo Firewall - Little Snitch http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html No more calling home apps foobar2000 with global shortcuts function - iTunes with Spark Apps/iTunes No need to put the effort to customize to a usable GUI. I still like foobar2000 better though. VirtualDub - Mostly MPEG Streamclip http://www.squared5.com/ Only for pr0n with unusual codecs. There's better apps for professional work. Media Player Classic - VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ I miss MPC. NOD32 - None at the moment ConTEXT - Smultron http://smultron.sourceforge.net/ Nice app. All other proper commercial apps run on both of the platforms so it's no problem. There is more but I was thinking about a shortlist and it got so long. So I will stop here. I will gladly read your favorites if you share them. This will be crossposted to a few forums but I think it's OK. PS: I can still boot into any OS including XP by using VM tools but it's not the same thing as having XP on a different partititon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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