Posted: 6/1/2010 11:05:43 PM EDT
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Hey Guys,
If any of you are running a Macbook, I'd love to hear what you think are essential add ons to OS X. In particular, I'd love to find a program that I can use to import my DVD collection into iTunes. I think Handbrake is what I need, but I don't have any experience with it. Also, I'd like to find a free version of Senuti, as my copy doesn't work for 10.6. Anything else I need? How about something to better manage photos, maybe a file folder type set up, as the 'Events' thing in iPhoto is painful. Thanks! |
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Hey Guys, If any of you are running a Macbook, I'd love to hear what you think are essential add ons to OS X. In particular, I'd love to find a program that I can use to import my DVD collection into iTunes. I think Handbrake is what I need, but I don't have any experience with it. Also, I'd like to find a free version of Senuti, as my copy doesn't work for 10.6. Anything else I need? How about something to better manage photos, maybe a file folder type set up, as the 'Events' thing in iPhoto is painful. Thanks! Handbrake is good for ripping movies to MP4, I have done all my DVDs and stream them from an Ubuntu file server. You will also need either VLC media player or Fairmount to decrypt. Both are free. Dont know about the others. I use iPhoto, but manually sorted my pictures by date and created folders. Huge PITA, but once done iPhoto works OK. |
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iStumbler for identifying/finding hot spots LINK Senuti works well - I know of nothing better if you need to TFR music from an iPod, buy it. Handbrake for the DVD ripping or Mac TheRipper if you can find it. If you're going to do much with photos, Photoshop Elements. If you need Word, Excel - Open Office Flip4Mac for playing Windows Media files through QuickTime |
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I don't know why you need a separate program to load your cd's into iTunes. I just put the cd in and they loaded up automatically. I put my whole CD collection (about 30 cd's) in an hour or so. Importing CDs into iTunes is a whole different thing from importing DVDs. |
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Careful: http://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/06/02/free_apps_install_spyware_on_macs I know, I know, this is supposed to be impossible by some experts here. |
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I don't know why you need a separate program to load your cd's into iTunes. I just put the cd in and they loaded up automatically. I put my whole CD collection (about 30 cd's) in an hour or so. Importing CDs into iTunes is a whole different thing from importing DVDs. My apologies, I misread the OP. 
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That entire picture is full of misinformation and fail. |
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That entire picture is full of misinformation and fail. Of course it is, it's a libtard blog with a picture of an epic liar in it. The one truth is, Obama prefers a Mac. |
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That entire picture is full of misinformation and fail. Of course it is, it's a libtard blog with a picture of an epic liar in it. The one truth is, Obama prefers a Mac. He regularly wears pants as well, which is why I no longer wear any. |
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Perian will install basically all the different video codecs to QT.
I edit a lot of PDF files every day for work. I installed PDFPen to do it so much easier. It has a toolbox where you can keep signatures, etc. and just drop them on the pdf file. If you don't need that feature Preview is good enough. Handbrake for DVD ripping and file conversions. OpenOffice has a mac native version now. If you do a lot of presentations Keynote (part of iWork) is Great. Firefox, Chrome, Skype, etc are all available for the mac. One thing you might not know is if you use Jabber or Google talk or Aim, iChat supports them natively. iCal and Contacts can sync with Google. Lots of rumors that MobileMe will soon be free, maybe after todays keynote y Jobs. |
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That entire picture is full of misinformation and fail. Of course it is, it's a libtard blog with a picture of an epic liar in it. The one truth is, Obama prefers a Mac. So does Rush Limbaugh. |