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What is your Mac workflow?

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If you're like me, you have a handful of apps you use everyday to complete the task at hand: Photoshop, Firefox, Word, etc. Some of these I love using - some I'd rather not. On the whole, I'm always open for using a new app if the benefits seem great.

 

For many new OSx86 users, the old Mac workflow they knew so well in the old days of PPC are gone, due to new apps or non-universal ones.

 

So in this transitional phase, let us know: what is your everyday Mac workflow? How has the list of your applications changed in the past 6 months to a year (even if you're not on an Macintel)? Got an obscure utility we should all know about? Tell us about it!

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39thRonin

For Apple:

 

* Camino

* iTunes

* Photoshop CS2

* SOHO Office Suite

* Adium

* Azureas

* Quicktime

* OnyX

* MS Word

* MS Powerpoint

* MS Entourage

* Dreamweaver 8

* Flash 8

* Fireworks 8

* DVD Player

* Toast Titanium

* WeatherDock

 

Though I have an XP partition available, I rarely use it these days, as my 10.4.5 w/security patches is quite stable and fast enough to do production work. Frankly, I really prefer the MacOS UI over XP, and for my work I just find that my workflow is much better on the Mac side...

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poispois

As someone said I use the Mac mainly for the same purpose that I used Windows for. As so...

 

Adium (for MSN chat)

Safari (For internet browsing)

Mail.app (For the obvious reasons)

Gmail Notifier

Mouseposé (because of tearing, don't know why i mention it either)

iTunes (Rock on baby!)

iPages (For some text editing)

 

And that's it... Pretty simple i guess.

Take care.

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leothar

Well.. namedropping is always fun. :blink:

 

Safari (the web, RSS)

Adium (Jabber, ICQ, MSN)

iTunes (music, obviously)

Smultron (PHP/XML/HTML/CSS editing)

Transmit (FTP)

StickyBrain (notes and stuff)

Photoshop (although slow)

Illustrator (vector graphics)

Pages (various reports)

Keynote (presentations, the QuickTime export is neat)

Terminal (I love bash)

iPhoto (photos are fun)

Address Book

Transmission (BitTorrent client)

QuickTime/VLC/DVD Player (movies)

Automator

OpenOffice.org (when I have to open Word or Excel documents)

Gmail Notifier

Xcode (creating simple and useless applications)

 

I have 69 items in my applications folder. I use everything at least once a week. :angel:

Also, nothing beats Exposé!

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Worship the dogcow

man, where do i start?

apps that are *new* are replacments for older PPC apps

 

safari - duh, web

apple mail - if you need an explanation, you need a bullet to the head

adium - chat *new*

transmission -torrents *new*

unison - newsgroups rock! thanks panic!

transmit - ftp

itunes - mostly podcast syncing anymore... TWiT :D

parallels - for screwing with windows *new*

Photoshop CS - for all those stubborn images - lets move adobe

dreamweaver - web stuff

VLC - movies

skype - calling the parents to let them know im still alive (im the quiet type)

discblaze - daily cd burns *new*

toast - disk image burning

alarm clock - for letting me know ive slept to long *new*

weatherpop - i guess i *could* look out the window....

textedit/pages - when i have to write something

richard bannister's emulators- thanks!

ilife - go figure

 

 

windows box

um, well alcohol 120%

webcam server (to check on my rabbit while im away)

i used to use the pc for a lot more, but whats the point now

used to run a 500mhz imac now a 2.93 celeron D

 

 

so my workflow has gone from 60% mac 40% windows to 95% mac 5%windows

granted, before i didnt have a very fast mac.

 

Applications folder: 173 items PPC applications folder: 37 items

 

mac specs:

Dogcow:

celeron D 2.93 socket 478 - free, bent pins

asrock P4Dual-915gl - cheap, got it before OSX was leaked.. good buy back then

1.5GB RAM - apparently "defective", free, and still trying to find the problem with it :)

200GB SATA 150 16MB HDD - on sale

8x DVD-RW - i have no idea, showed up in my pile one day

antec aria case (ooooh small) - NOT cheap

Mac OS X 10.4.5

18" LCD - closeout

canon iP 90 printer (again ooooh small) - fished out of trashcan

Bose Video roommate speakers (used these for years)

(3) 250GB firewire external hard drives - um, paid too much 2 years ago

60GB USB2 portable hard drive - gift

15GB 3rd gen ipod - $299 like everyone else

 

1 terabyte of storage just doesnt seem like enough anymore....

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