What is your Mac workflow?

altho it may be a tad slower than windows version of Adobe CS2 Suite, the Mac CS2 suite is still pretty comparable while running in rosetta. i use it just about everyday, life so much easier on a mac especially the f11 and f10 keys when workin with multiple windows (sorry i dont have the technical name for those functions). also the image processor in bridge, which i use as much as photoshop itself, is pretty quick depending on what you got it doing. applying filters to large pix, fuggedaboutit, you'll be waitin a bit.

well that just my 2 cents. *i step off and pass the soapbox*

I do mostly photowork, so I added Gimp into my work flow. Had to swith to Cinema 4D from Maya for product renderings. Itz is nice to add WINE into the mix even though itz mostly for messing around

For Apple, I nearly always use.......

• Camino
  
• iTunes
  
• Photoshop CS
  
• MSN Messenger
  
• iChat
  
• Photobooth
  
• Quicktime
  
• OnyX
  

For Windows, I nearly always use.....

• Bon Echo/FireFox 2.0
  
• iTunes
  
• Photoshop CS
  
• Windows Live Messenger
  
• Windows Media Player
  
• Quicktime
  
• AIM 5.9
  

If you like having the lyrics and artwork of your songs, but don't want to search for each song/album cover art, use the Sing That iTune! widget. It finds both for you, puts them in their correct places in iTunes, and even creates a text file of the lyrics so you can save them to the Notes folder if you have an older iPod like me, I still have my mini, and view them that way. There use to be a better program that did this, called pearLyrics, but the creator was nearly sued because the record companies apparently own the rights to the lyrics aswell. Anyway, great program, although sometimes it can't find it, so you have to click the Search Google Button, and then it tries to search in Japanese or something. It never gives you Japanese lyrics though so don't freak out. Just try it. It can be downloaded here. If that link doesn't work, just do a search for it on google, or on Apple's website.

Oh, and don't let my name, puppy linux user make you think I'm some linux novice. I no longer use Puppy Linux on a daily basis because I have a PowerBook now. I only used puppy linux when all I had was a crappy old Compaq {censored}ario, Pentium II, with 48MB of RAM.

I'll change it or create a new account one someday.

And yes, I do have some strange love for these smilies.

I wish there was a smily for being really off topic.

i use adium, teamspeex, itunes, onyx, handbrake, safari, limewire, and quicktime. not too much pro use.

Safari (I'm now going to use either Firefox or Camino depending on which one is faster)

iTunes 4.9

iChat

LimeWire

Deimos Rising

Microsoft Office

X-Chat Aqua

RealPlayer

I realized that I don't really use any of the other preinstalled applications and got rid of them with a reformat. I must have at least 5 GB more free space now.

I find that I'm recording audio often (both on my iBook and the Hackintel) so Logic Express is my most frequently used app.

Besides that, iTunes, Adium, Safari, Terminal, Reason, ssh, Traktor for DJ gigs, and the Audio MIDI Setup Utility (woot Aggregate Device Editor!)

Shake. FCP, TextEdit, and Adium. Yea, that's really all I use, and my real mac is still worth every penny.

I'm still screwed for awhile on intel, that's why I'm playing now. I'm waiting for Shake to upgrade.

Safari, Firefox, Adium, Itunes and Colioquy on apple

My windows box mainly handles the games and the movies

Apple box does all the rest

Well, I just entered this Macintel world. So far I am just getting accustomed to OS X and it's features. Been using it for about a week on my old 1.5Ghz Pentium 4 with 256Mb RAM. It's a pitty I can't use it on my new laptop with AMD Turion, as it has ATI chipset. No luck with OS X on that one so far. In OS X I love Expose with it's F9 and F11 shortcuts. It really helps with many windows. So far I use mostly Firefox, iTunes, Transmission for torrents, MSN Messenger, Skype(works fine for chat), iPhoto, Gimp and MS Office on it. Can't watch any .avi videos, so I don't really use it for that. Anyways my laptop with 16:10 screen and Gentoo Linux suits better then this old box for my entertainment needs. I actually haven't rebooted to my Windows partition since I installed OS X, so it satisfies all my needs apart from the lack of 3d graphics acceleration and .avi playback problems.

For Apple, I always use.......

* Camino (way faster than safari or firefox)

* Dragon Burn 4.1.20 (FULL) works great on 10.4.4(x86)

* iTunes 6.0.4(3)

* Gimp

* MSN Messenger

* Adium

* BitTorrent

* Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 (Entourage)

* Windows Media Player Series 9

* OnyX

* iTrick

* CocoViewX (freeware image-browser and viewer with multi-format export & slideshow).

For Windows, I always use.....

* FireFox 1.5

* iTunes 6.0.4

* Windows Live Messenger

* DivX Player (with Codec)

* Yahoo! Messenger

* iTrick

* Nero Burning ROM 6 Ultra Edition

Adium, iTunes, Safari, MSOffice 2004, Dashboard, Photoshop CS 2 (but not all the time, I use it in windows a lot) Google Earth, Mail, Quick Time, ShakesPeer, Windows Media Player, Mplayer, VLC, Preview, Logic Express, iPhoto iWeb (played a lot with it 1 month ago) DVD player and Chess

Mine still hasn't changed (mainly because I'm still on my G3 systems)

Safari

Opera

iChat

Microsoft Entourage

Word

Keynote (no PowerPoint for me!)

iTunes

Virtual PC

Pyware 3D Java Interactive

iPhoto

GIMP

QuickTime Pro

Clam XAV

Pac the Man X

Shadowkiller

System Preferences (can't forget that one)

Those are the ones I use most often.

Well, I just entered this Macintel world. So far I am just getting accustomed to OS X and it's features. Been using it for about a week on my old 1.5Ghz Pentium 4 with 256Mb RAM. It's a pitty I can't use it on my new laptop with AMD Turion, as it has ATI chipset. No luck with OS X on that one so far. In OS X I love Expose with it's F9 and F11 shortcuts. It really helps with many windows. So far I use mostly Firefox, iTunes, Transmission for torrents, MSN Messenger, Skype(works fine for chat), iPhoto, Gimp and MS Office on it. Can't watch any .avi videos, so I don't really use it for that. Anyways my laptop with 16:10 screen and Gentoo Linux suits better then this old box for my entertainment needs. I actually haven't rebooted to my Windows partition since I installed OS X, so it satisfies all my needs apart from the lack of 3d graphics acceleration and .avi playback problems.

Actually, you should be able to play .avi files as long as you have Flip4Mac, which plays .wmv, .avi, and who knows what else. Oh, and did I mention, it's completly free.

Try getting the DivX codec as well.

The apps I use on Mac compared to Windows are really much the same, and if not, although they have a different name, they do the same thing.

Daily flow:

* Mail

* Oracle Calendar Client

* Camino

* Probably ready for iTunes by this stage

* Photoshop

* Dreamweaver

* Word

On windows it was identical except it was Thunderbird not Mail and Firefox not Camino.

What I've found has really changed is moving from dual monitors to a single monitor on OS X (both on my hackintosh at home and the Mini at work). My workflow has changed a lot now, I dont mind having heaps of windows open and all active, expose takes care of it all for me. On Windows it was minimize anything I'm not using and try to not open *too* many things at once.

The side button to toggle the F9 function of Expose is now my best friend.

Let's see now. My workflow.

For Mac its's...

Apple Mail (Yes, I am one of the few that use it)

Safari

iTunes

Photoshop CS

Halo

iChat

Conversation

Transmission

Virtual PC 7

And for Windows its...

Windows Mail

Windows Media Player or Media Center

Microsoft Word

IE 7 or Firefox

VMWare

Photoshop CS 2

Mac:

Camino

Adium

XChat Aqua

Transmission

Parallels

Stuffit

Gimp

Windows:

MSN

AIM

mirc

Firefox

Bitcomet

Gimp

I'm new on all of this (the Macword). I've been running several installations of OSX with different degrees of success (the f***ng VIA ATA kext doesnt work) but i fing myself installing those applications. Why? Because i love to install things on OSX. Yes: no installers, no apt-get, just drag an icon to application folders!! As a long time linux-windows user i fint the drag-installation system the most lovely thing on earth.

The list:

- Firefox (I just love fast foxes)

- Adium (the wing raiging duck icon is sweet)

- The Adobe suite (hey, I design things)

- The macromedia suite

- Roxio toast

- VLC player

- Itunes (i hate it)

- Exposé (swwweeet: i'm hooked to it, I've got a clone for Windows "Topdesk")

- Stuffit

- RarX

- Flip 4 Mac

- Acdsee

Questions:

Is there any classic winamp (v 2.95ish) for mac?

Is there a cool icon creation program similar to axialis iconworkshop?

My work flow is:

• Camino
  
• iTunes 6
  
• Word/Excel/Entourage
  
• Reader 7
  
• Safari 2
  
• iChat
  

I will be adding Acrobat to do that list in the next couple weeks also.

I dunno if i'd call it a workflow, but here goes:

OSX:

iTunes

iPhoto

Aperture

iMovie

Comic Life

AdiumX

Safari

Windows:

Call of Duty 2

Half Life 2

Counter Strike : Source

Oh! I forgot!

Windows:

- Hamachi

- Emule

- Doom

- Doom II

- Doom III

- Quake

- Quake II

- Quake III

- Quake IV

- Call of Duty II

- NFSU Underground

And the best ones:

- FIFA 2006

- Dawn of War

Hello, on the Mac side I use:

- Camino

- iTunes 6.0.4

- Azureus

- Limewire

- Freeway Pro (looking for something best and Unibin for Web Pages)

- Microsoft Office

- Macromedia Flash (waiting for the Unibin version)

- Intaglio

- SimplyRAR

- Microsoft Messenger

On the Windows side:

- Visual C# Express Edition

- Visual Foxpro 9

- SQL Server Express Edition

- Quake IV

- DOOM III

- NSFU Black Edition

- Call Of Duty II

Hi There!

Here's my Mac workflow:

-- Apple Mail

-- Apple Safari

-- Apple Terminal

-- Apple Dashboard

-- iTunes 4.8 (PPC)

-- Microsoft Messenger (PPC)

-- Microsoft Office X

-- xChat Aqua

Here's my Windows Workflow:

-- Outlook Express

-- Mozilla Firefox

-- PuTTY

-- Yahoo! Widgets

-- iTunes 6.0

-- Microsoft Messenger

-- Microsoft Office XP

-- xChat for Windows

--daniel