Today I write this post on a brand new Mac, a Mac Book Pro 15 inch. This is the first time I ever have owned a Mac. My first computer was an C64, then a Amiga 500. After that I plunged into the PC world with DOS and then Windows 95. I´ve been working with Mac both at school and at work but now I have my own Mac. It will be great to see if I like this, I still have to think to find the @ key. Why did get a Mac you wonder, well:
- It’s a great web developer platform
- I can run both Windows, Ubuntu (Linux) and MacOSX. Either by dualboot or Virtualizing
- Less trouble (is this really true?)
- It looks sexy, both hardware and software
I now have to find all those software that I use in Windows, as I am new to Machintosh I have no real clue what’s good and not. What I need is:
- A good texteditor (like notepad++)
- A webdeditor, hopefully not Dreamweaver
- An FTP client
- An SSH client (Is there a putty client for Mac?)
- A good IM client
- A good screen capture program (Gadwin PrintScreen today)
- Something to measure on screen (use JRuler today)
- Play music (like Winamp, is there a client for Last.fm for mac?)
- Watch movies (divx, avi, wmf, qt, mkv etc)
- Mounting images (like ISO, BIN files etc)
- Torrent client (for thos Linux images)
- Virus protection (heard that you do not need this?)
- Email (Is there a Thunderbird client or is there any better?)
- VNC and VPN (Hamachi?)
If you have any good tips what works and not, let me know.
