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VibeStreamer: "Vibe Streamer is a free MP3 streaming server that allows you to connect and stream your music using only a standard web browser - Stream your music anywhere!"
Works great! I love having all my music available to me wherever I have internet access.
J.River Media Jukebox: "The best digital music jukebox you will ever use, and now totally FREE!"
music player, library organizer, ripping, burning, iPod sync'ing (and others), etc. It kicks the monkey's arse!
GOM Player: "Free, Simple, Light, It just plays!"
video player
k701 ~ reference + eargasms / proline 750 ~ head-bobbin' + toe-tappin'
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Hard Drive - a crash waiting to happen, usually at the worst possible time . . . back-up yer stuff!
this is my list of favorite OSX freeware programs =]
News
--driver for all usb mice (even ones that are windows only) this is awesome and i use it to run my G5. highly recommend
HandBrake
--this is used to rip movies off of dvds. it can rip to basically any format you'll want. quality settings are customizable to save size while keeping what quality you want. has preset settings for outputting to ipod video and such. i use it to rip movies when i go home so that i'll have them at college without actually taking the movie.
Monolingual
--clears up a pretty good amount of space on your hard drive by removing stuff that you don't really need. like are you really going to use the bengali language on your computer? or basque? or bislama? not to mention all the other obscure languages and the chinese keyboard. you can select whatever you want to keep and remove whatever you don't. pretty handy
Smultron by Peter Borg
--text editor that has a lot better feel than the program textedit that comes with osx. this one's up in the air because i like it for programming stuff since it does syntax highlighting. but i mean it can do tabbed documents and line numbers and has a bunch of customizable stuff which makes it a nicer experience
TinkerTool: Download
--gives you access to a bunch of settings on your computer that wouldn't normally be there (like changing a lot of the dock which lots of people hate) check out the stuff it can do. if you like then take if not then don't
Fan Control 1.2 - MacUpdate
--lets you automatically set the fan speed to temp line how you want it to be. great idea since you can bump fanspeed up to about 3500 min (instead of 2K) and you can't really tell soundwise but it keeps your computer way cooler. or you can turn it down if you're not doing anything strenuous and you want to conserve battery power (min you can lower to 1K from standard 2K)
www: OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
--office substitute. it's not perfect and lots of options are moved or named differently but it's pretty darn close and for free. can't really complain here there's no reason not to try it. esp cause everything in office on mac is moved from office on windows computers anyway
WireTap Pro - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET Download.com
gotta get a version of wiretap that's not directly from ambrosia now cause they changed the free version so it can only record 30 second clips. i think this is the version i have. records any sound going through your sound card. basically if you're playing a streaming song while recording, the resulting file will be that song. used to dl stuff you can't normally dl. there's also another program from this company (ambrosia software) called snapz x. it does the same thing except does video (you select what part of the screen to record or all) it then saves the video file. i don't remember if the demo has any limits or just less features than the full version or what. i haven't found a use yet for it so i don't know
avast! Mac Edition Download
free antivirus software that doesn't suck. it's free too which is tight. yes you have a mac yes it's a lot safer than windows but yes you do need antivirus software. why? because there are still viruses for macs. especially because they're gaining market share and are going to start being hit and you don't know when that's going to happen. better safe than sorry. esp cause you're not doing gaming anyway so the overhead processing costs really don't matter that much
windows programs:
avast, open office, and handbrake come in windows flavors also
doubleTwist | Home Page
--also check this out. it's a background drm stripper from itunes stuff
Getting a correct temp readout from a E8x00 CPU can be really tricky because most programs set a wrong TJ Max. RealTemp doesn't plus it has a nice calibration feature: Real Temp - CPU temperature monitoring
It basically supports every newer Intel CPU.
A new addition is the Radeon BIOS editor, worth checking out if you are into overclocking and have a ATI Radeon card: DISCLAIMER: USE ON YOUR OWN RISK RBE - techPowerUp! Forums
__________________ Portable rig:
Cowon D2 --> Silver mini to mini by N_maher --> RSA Tomahawk --> LiveWires T1 / Sleek-Audio SA6 / Yuin OK1. Home rig:
Marantz CD6002 --> Head-Direct EF1 --> AKG K701 / Sennheiser HD580 without foam, with HD600 grills, Dowin cable.
I am not sure if foobar can be run on OSX. If not, that makes me really sad.
Welcome to "Team Apple"...
foobar2000 is MS Windows only (blame the developer). It will run through Darwine, but it will not be error free.
I have tried all alternatives out there, but ended up sticking with iTunes. You are somewhat limited regarding codecs/formats. But far from that its really nice imo.
Originally Posted by FrederikS|TPU
That is one (of many) reason(s) to install XP on your MBP
Oh please!
Switching from the lovely (imo) Mac OS X to the horrible (still imo) MS Windows XP just for the sake of an audio player... Better off finding a suitable native OS X audio player.
I could see frederiks suggestion of going xp for foobar. I finally set up my foobar the way I want it on my thinkpad, and I am sad that I can't have it on my nice new machine. Oh well, at least I have it somewhere. Itunes for mbp it is.
Welcome to "Team Apple"...
Oh please!
Switching from the lovely (imo) Mac OS X to the horrible (still imo) MS Windows XP just for the sake of an audio player... Better off finding a suitable native OS X audio player.
No pun intended
I do not know a great deal about OSX, but I think it should be run emulators like Wine and VMWare on OSX. Wine works great on Debian which is a real *cough*nerdy*cough* Linux distro. I believe VMWare has a specific program for running Windows apps under OSX just cannot remember the name
__________________ Portable rig:
Cowon D2 --> Silver mini to mini by N_maher --> RSA Tomahawk --> LiveWires T1 / Sleek-Audio SA6 / Yuin OK1. Home rig:
Marantz CD6002 --> Head-Direct EF1 --> AKG K701 / Sennheiser HD580 without foam, with HD600 grills, Dowin cable.
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