5 software To Get More Out Of Your Mac

Nov 24, 2008 Posted by Rizki Akmanda on Nov 24, 2008 in Technology and Internet | 0 comments

5 software To Get More Out Of Your Mac

At some point last year, you bought yourself an iPhone and then realized that a better user experience is really possible! Therefore, at some point this year, you took the next logical step and update your PC to a Mac – maybe a Mac Mini to start small, or a laptop, or even a sexy 20 "iMac.

Now we know that insufferable-that-in all meetings of family that descended from its Mac OS X Leopard nirvana conference just for the rest of the brood in their digital lives miserable. In which case you ready for what I have to say: It’s true – you can make the user experience on your Mac even better!

Back in March, Chung reminded Jackson that of the 10 Essential Mac Apps after installing a format. Here, in this post, I will try to purloin some of their ideas and add some of my own. If you are a novice Mac, I hope that the proposed new applications and useful to you. If you are a veteran, read ahead and correct me with your own best alternatives.

1. Quicksilver

This is so obvious that only ships with the operating system pre-installed. In contrast, Mac OS comes with Spotlight, which is good – to the grandmother. For a slick cat like you, Quicksilver is the rare application that meets the conditions for greater use of metaphor: a Swiss army knife. With simple keystrokes (default is the invocation of Ctrl-Space) that let you launch applications, find contact information, browse your directory tree, send e-mail messages, and interface with other applications through plug-ins.

2. VirtualBox

Of course I may have taken the path towards enlightenment, but the rest of the world are taking their time getting there, and you have to communicate with them from time to time. I am speaking here of course Microsoft Windows world that is imposed on the world, with a beatific occasionally annoying banking site to work only in Internet Explorer. For those cases, there is freedom of the tools of VirtualBox virtualization, which lets you run Windows (a licensed copy of course) on your Mac.
And while you’re on the job (to make peace with the world of Windows), you can grab and Flip4Mac (Windows Media Components), a tool that is going to install plug-ins for QuickTime media player on your Mac, so that the playback of Windows Media audio and video files.

3. The Goodies at iSlayer

Choose one or more of the good free (donationware) in Islay: iStatMenus, iStatPro, iStatNano. These are all applications that display various bits of useful information about your system.
The first (iStatMenus) sits on your menu bar (see 5 Free tools to add to your Mac menu bar for this and other useful menu bar add ons), while the other two are the Dashboard Widgets. All information display systems, such as CPU utilization, memory and disk, the first 5 processes that are using your CPU, the battery status of your laptop, and so on.

This is useful, especially for a new user, and that this information gives a clue to the unexpected behavior OS that even a Mac user encounters, as the slow response of the system. In the screenshot, you can see that Firefox uses 20% or 15.5% of my CPU, although I’m not actively using it (perhaps an extension of misbehaviors Firefox?). iStatMenu also provides a good bit of the date and time on their screen menu bar and a drop that leads to a timetable.

4. Jumpcut

A neat solution to a common problem of maintaining and accessing multiple entries to the clipboard, that is, copying from multiple bits of text before hitting them. Jumpcut sits in the menu bar and crop your copy buffer as you work out in the Command-C’s.

When ready to paste these bits in an email or editor, which can be accessed by clicking the icon menu, or, better yet, using a shortcut key (default: Alt-Space) that can be used to rotate through the clipboard.

5. Freeing your Music

Remember that you bought from the iTunes Music Store with their hard-earned money now that Apple refuses to renounce you, locking in its proprietary format, or inaccessible on your iPod? Two applications that are to be established FairGame law, which allows you to convert DRM’ed iTunes Store in your iTunes library to an unprotected format, and iPodDisk, on the contrary, it contributes to rescue the music stored on your iPod. For this package, you can add SimplyBurns which completes the loop by allowing you to record your media on a CD or DVD.