{"id":155,"date":"2007-05-15T00:47:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T19:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunaldua.local\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2007-05-15T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T19:17:43","slug":"software-for-switchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/15\/software-for-switchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Software for switchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know there have been plenty of such posts\/ articles all over recently, but this is more of a personal post in the public domain. Amitabh<\/a> is the latest “switcher<\/a>“, thanks, atleast partially, to yours truly (doses of “Come on dude, get a Mac already” twice a day, thank you very much). He finally bit the bullet and is the proud owner of a shiny new, white Macbook<\/a>. He asked me for software recommendations and I promised him I’ll do a blog post so that everyone can benefit from the gyaan<\/i>.<\/p>\n

So here it goes. In alphabetic order of categories.<\/p>\n

Backup<\/b>
\nSuperDuper!<\/a> (Shareware).
\nCarbon Copy Cloner<\/a> (Free).<\/p>\n

Blogging<\/b>
\nJournler<\/a> – A lot more than just a blogging tool (Free).
\nEcto<\/a> (Shareware).
\nMarsedit<\/a> (Shareware).<\/p>\n

Browsers<\/b>
\nSafari<\/a> is good enough for most things (Free).
\nCamino<\/a> is Firefox for Mac users (Free).
\nOmniWeb<\/a> (Shareware).<\/p>\n

Burning CDs etc.<\/b>
\nToast<\/a> (Shareware).
\nDisco<\/a> (Shareware).<\/p>\n

FTP<\/b>
\nCyberduck<\/a> (Free).
\nTransmit<\/a> (Shareware).<\/p>\n

IM\/ Chat<\/b>
\nAdium<\/a> – One Duck to rule them all (Free).
\nColloquy<\/a> – IRC Client (Free).<\/p>\n

Media Editors<\/b>
\nAudacity<\/a> – Free audio editor.
\nAddMovie<\/a> – Join ’em movies (Shareware).<\/p>\n

Media Players<\/b>
\nVLC<\/a> – The only thing you’ll ever need (Free).
\nPerian<\/a> – Play DivX videos in QuickTime (Free).
\nFlip4Mac<\/a> – Play WMV videos in QuickTime (Free).<\/p>\n

RSS<\/b>
\nNetNewsWire<\/a> (Free + Shareware, both versions).
\nVienna<\/a> – Open Source RSS reader.<\/p>\n

Text Editors<\/b>
\nTextWrangler<\/a> – Amazing that it’s free.
\nTextmate<\/a> – The best text editor ever? (Shareware). <\/p>\n

Torrents\/ P2P<\/b>
\nAzureus<\/a> – The most popular cross-platform torrent client (Free).
\nX-Torrent<\/a> – Torrents, Mac style (Shareware).
\nPoisoned<\/a> – Connect to multiple P2P networks (Free).<\/p>\n

Virtualization – Intel Macs<\/b>
\naka run Windows on Mac (but why?!!).
\nParallels<\/a> (Shareware).
\nVMware<\/a> (Beta).
\nBoot Camp<\/a> – Not Virtualization but multi-boot (Free).<\/p>\n

Virtualization – PPC Macs<\/b>
\nQ<\/a> (Freeware).
\nVirtual PC<\/a> (Not free, no longer in development).<\/p>\n

Miscellaneous<\/b>
\nQuicksilver<\/a> – Possibly the best. software. ever. (Free).
\nPukka<\/a> – del.icio.us client (Shareware).<\/p>\n

\n

That should be more than enough to get you started dude. I’ll (perhaps!) cover some of the more “exotic” categories\/ picks in a follow up post.<\/p>\n

Welcome, from darkness, to light.<\/p>\n

\n

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