Vienna is a great free RSS reader. Colloquy is great for IRC.
Why do you like colloquy? I found it barely adequate.
Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?
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Re: Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?
#12I don't have much to add, but how do you like your MBP so far? I've had mine for almost a year and like it very much. I liked my Dell laptop running Ubuntu, but I do prefer the (more expensive) Mac hardware. The fan runs almost silently when compared to the Dell and, okay, it's just a nicer design too.
I like it very much so far! I don't have a nagging paranoia that I've somehow got a virus. I like the quiet, and design itself. It's also faster all-around, and slicker.
The only downside at all so far--I can't stand the way the home and end keys work and I'm having trouble with not having ctrl-C/ctrl-V and ctrl-Z work--the apple key does those functions, but on my keyboard, I find that key to be more awkward. It's screwing with my keyboard shortcut mojo.
Re: Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?
#13no one has mentioned installing firefox yet. plus web developer extensions.
also get VLC for playing video files and DVDs
Re: Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?
#14I don't have much to add, but how do you like your MBP so far? I've had mine for almost a year and like it very much. I liked my Dell laptop running Ubuntu, but I do prefer the (more expensive) Mac hardware. The fan runs almost silently when compared to the Dell and, okay, it's just a nicer design too.
I like it very much so far! I don't have a nagging paranoia that I've somehow got a virus. I like the quiet, and design itself. It's also faster all-around, and slicker. The only downside at all so far--I can't stand the way the home and end keys work and I'm having trouble with not having ctrl-C/ctrl-V and ctrl-Z work--the apple key does those functions, but on my keyboard, I find that key to be more awkward. It's s…
you can swap cmd and ctrl keys if you want, in the keyboard area of system preferences. you can also change caplocks there to something more useful.
for home/end is the problem them not moving the cursor? try cmd-up-arrow and cmd-down-arrow
Re: Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?
#15Vienna is a great free RSS reader. Colloquy is great for IRC.
Why do you like colloquy? I found it barely adequate.
I find Colloquy is fine (though it has a bad habit of pinning the CPU every now and then...), but there's nothing special about it. I'd switch in an instant if someone suggested a superior alternative.
What do you suggest for an OSX IRC client?
Re: Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you like colloquy? I found it barely adequate.
I find Colloquy is fine (though it has a bad habit of pinning the CPU every now and then...), but there's nothing special about it. I'd switch in an instant if someone suggested a superior alternative. What do you suggest for an OSX IRC client?
X-Chat Aqua is good, though unmaintained.
Re: Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?
#17Perian and NicePlayer are required for watching random bits of video from the rest of the world.
Re: Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like it very much so far! I don't have a nagging paranoia that I've somehow got a virus. I like the quiet, and design itself. It's also faster all-around, and slicker. The only downside at all so far--I can't stand the way the home and end keys work and I'm having trouble with not having ctrl-C/ctrl-V and ctrl-Z work--the apple key does those functions, but on my keyboard, I find that key to be more awkward. It's s…
you can swap cmd and ctrl keys if you want, in the keyboard area of system preferences. you can also change caplocks there to something more useful. for home/end is the problem them not moving the cursor? try cmd-up-arrow and cmd-down-arrow
I'll try the swap asap for command and ctrl. That's great-- Thanks!
In windows, home and end jump to the end of line/beginning of line, so I frequently hit shift-home or shift-end to select a whole line of text, then I copy or cut and move it.
I found app-specific hacks here:
http://www.starryhope.com/tech/apple/2006/keyfixer/
but I haven't checked out how it works yet, as I think I can add Thunderbird and other programs myself. Or I'll just re-adjust...
Re: Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?
#19I spent a long time looking for a decent, free text editor. I eventually found two: Komodo Edit and Text Wrangler. The only reasonable terminal program is iTerm, although I'd give it up to get a Mac port of PuTTy.
Re: Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?
#20AIM: Adium
IRC: Snak
RSS: NewsFireRSS
Notes: FreeMind
Newsgroups: Unison
Misc: Aquamacs, AppFresh, WhatSize, Flip4Mac, Twitterific
If you go to Startup School then you should also have a copy of SubEthaEdit installed. It's a text editor for mac that lets you take notes collaboratively in real time.