Comments on: Mac Applications for fresh switchers.

By: Jean-Laurent de Morlhon

Jean-Laurent de Morlhon — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:30:43 +0000

@Alexis
I have a paid licence of Fusion, so I didn’t tried VirtualBox. People are using it around me, and find it really good.
I’m used to Eclipse, compile on save is a proeminient feature which is more aimed at intelliJ than NetBeans. I was really impressed by NetBeans demo when debugging EJB6 in glassfish. Not sure I switch just for this, but could give a try to netbeans.

Thanks for your comments, all.

By: Thierry The Delphi Man

Thierry The Delphi Man — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:23:44 +0000

I’m not a Mac professional software user but i’m using a few other softwares:

- “iStat pro” (widget, monitoring system),
- “OnyX” (system modifications, activation of hidden functions, system maintenance),
- “Open Office” or “NeoOffice”,
- “VirtualBox” (free when VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop aren’t)
- “Stuffit Expander”,
- “LiquidCD” (very simpe cd\dvd burner software),
- “SuperDocker” (dock customization),
- “AppFresh” and\or “App Update”,
- “SCPlugin” (free ‘tortoiseSVN’ like for MAC but doesn’t seems 10.6 compatible for the moment (great on 10.5)).
- “mucommander” (file manager featuring a Norton Commander)
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few others
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By: Henri Gomez

Henri Gomez — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:39:14 +0000

May I suggest also :

- VirtualBox : works great and is Free.

- TunnelBlick : OpenVPN support

- Tweetie : a nice Twitter client also

- Picasa

- TextWrangler : a great text editor

- Unison : new grabber (not free)

Regards

By: Alexis MP

Alexis MP — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:35:02 +0000

Get virtualbox. Seriously.
NetBeans has compile-on-save too.