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Seeking Nerdvana The Road to Leopard or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apple Mac
Seeking Nerdvana The Road to Leopard or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apple Mac | The Road to Leopard or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apple Mac |
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| by Adam Turner | |
| Tuesday, 04 March 2008 | |
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While Leopard is quite impressive out of the box, I'd say there are still a few must-have add-ons for getting the most from it. Growl would be one of them, another would be StartupSound.prefPane which disables the MacBook's loud beep when it boots up (important if you like to work late at night). The other essential is a good usage meter for tracking you monthly downloads (important in Australia). On XP I was using UsageAgent but I've found some good Mac usage widgets at LemonJar. Bloggers will find RapidoResizer a handy tool for quickly resizing images. I'm still evaluating good text editors for working on HTML and PHP files, but TextWrangler looks like it's what I'm after. If you want to use Apple's TextEdit to edit HTML, you need to dip into the preferences at tick "Ignore rich text commands in HTML files". I'd also like a more powerful RSS reader than what Apple Mail offers, I was using FeedReader on XP. Something on the Mac that ties is with Growl would be good. The Road to Leopard starts with a single step. Having taken that step I've still got a long way to go, but the journey is already proving rewarding. PREVIOUS POST: The Road from Windows - online email NEXT POST: The Road to Leopard: Amazon S3 and Jungle Disk deliver me from the backup wilderness {moscomment} |
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