I’m one of the cool kids now, please help me out.
Christmas day was a very good one for me. Not just because I had an awesome time with family, had good food, and some refreshing drinks, but also because Santa brought me an awesome gift (Ok, my wife did, but I didn’t want to burst your bubble). Here’s my new baby:
Santa brought me a Macbook!
Now, thrilled and excited, (because I’m one of the cool kids now, according to @mayhemstudios)I want to get working on it right away. I already got Photoshop, but I didn’t want to invest in Dreamweaver (right away), since I know there’s some killer apps out there for a Mac, I just want you to tell me which one is the awesomest. I heard Coda is pretty good, so I downloaded the trial for it.
Any other killer-apps are welcome too, but please don’t post links to “The top 100 Mac-apps” or something, ’cause that doesn’t tell me anything.
December 28th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I’m officially jealous! Where you expecting one? If not what was your reaction?
December 28th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Wohoo! Congrats man!
December 28th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
These pictures were taken when I was unwrapping the gift. The smile in the last image was on my face for a few days
My wife actually told me to stop telling her “I got a Mac” every few hours..
http://picasaweb.google.com/deluzione/DropBox#5284953274435406610
The pictures were taken early in the morning, so don’t mind the “do” and outfit
December 28th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Let’s see what I have installed at the moment:
Adium for any IM,
Adobe Lightroom 2 for photography,
AudialHub to convert audio (use VisualHub for video),
Chicken of the VNC which is a VNC Viewer (a VNC server is build in OS X),
Firefox,
Flickr Uploadr,
ForkLift which is a nice Norton Commander like file manager (PathFinder is also a nice alternative to Finder),
Ableton Live for creating music and mixes,
MacMP3Gain,
Mixed In Key for calculating in which key a song is,
OpenOffice (or use iWork),
Remote Desktop Connection for remotely managing Windows (eeew) machines,
SMARTReporter to keep an eye on my harddrives,
Snackr which is a news ticker,
TextMate for editing HTML, PHP and other files (BBEdit is also a good editor),
TweetDeck,
twhirl,
uTorrent,
Versions which is a Subversion client,
VLC for playing any video or audio format,
VMware Fusion for running Windows, Linux and any other OS virtually.
That’s about it.
December 28th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Oh forgot:
Canon EOS Utility,
Desktoptopia for random desktop backgrounds,
Flip4Mac to play Windows Media inside Quicktime,
Growl for nice notifications,
iStat Menus for nice statistics,
Secrets to change “hidden” preferences.
December 28th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I guess I’m not cool then since I still have a PC!
December 28th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Join the club Linda! I will have a Mac when I’m older though, I’ve promised myself.
Jack Franklin’s last blog post: Interview with Corrie Haffly
December 29th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Also, it looks like the Mac was hidden in another box – so when you opened the pressie guess you were not expecting a Mac eh?!!!
(Sorry I’ll stop spamming your blog now)
December 29th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Revox !!!!!!!!!!!
/random yell :}
nice Mac dls.. one day i will have one again (only Mac’s i have at this moment: 2 Apple II (1977) and a iMac (late nineties)
enjoy.!
December 30th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
@Revox: awesome list. I’m using a few of those right now!
@Linda: Don’t worry, you’re still a cool kid to me
@Jack: At first I thought she bought a Wii, because the shape of the box was exactly the same as a Wii-box, but when I saw the box for a backrest, I knew there was something else in there
@Rudeboy: you have to get with the now, man