This one is for all you Apple users out there. What applications would a newbie mostly use and why? What are your favoritte Apple Applications?
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Originally posted by jkpescadorThis one is for all you Apple users out there. What applications would a newbie mostly use and why? What are your favoritte Apple Applications?I am Jack's absent signature.
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Mostly it's for my mother in law to use.
Which browser do you prefer?just started: mililaniblog.com
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Originally posted by jkpescadorMostly it's for my mother in law to use.
Which browser do you prefer?
• Word processing (including printing those documents)
• eMail
• Web surfing
For that, OSX's built-in (free) apps do the job it's intended just fine:
TextEdit, Mail & Safari.
I prefer Firefox slightly over Safari (though I use both). Firefox tends to render PHP/MySQL pages such as right here at HT more accurately. Especially when it comes to forms buttons.
I also prefer MS' Entourage (email program) over MAIL only because I like the built-in calendar feature. MS Entourage isn't free though. It's part of the Office suite.
Of course, being a desktop publisher, I also have all the usual goodies: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive & Quark XPress (though we'll soon switch to InDesign).
If you're going to run anything graphics-intense, as always, get plenty of RAM!sigpic The Tasty Island
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For basic stuff I use the following on my OSX Macs:
Browser: Safari and Firefox. I prefer Safari, but Firefox is good too.
Email: I'm old school, so for pop email I use a paid for version of Eudora. Otherwise it is webmail at Yahoo or Gmail.
Word Processing: I have MS Word, but for simplicity I am okay with AppleWorks and TextEdit.I'm still here. Are you?
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a couple of cents here...
software to buy:
-Office for Mac OSX (there's a student edition that retails less than $150). Its great because she will be able to open all those .doc .xls .ppt files and it is worth every dime.
free software to download:
-windows media player
-real player
(quicktime is already installed, but we all know that different websites use different media players and this will come in handy if she likes to watch files from cnn.com, oprah.com, etc)
tell her that she won't be able to open .exe files (unless you buy VirtualPC which I wouldn't advise doing). This really is no biggie, and keeps the mac from getting whacked by viruses.
...and if you really love her, get an airport and buy her an ibook. Then she's wireless and THAT is POWER!
pax
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Thanks for the advice all.
I did find out buying something from Apple is cheaper online than in the store.just started: mililaniblog.com
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Don't spend the money on MS office - Openoffice.org is like 98% compatible, and it's free. Also, I think mplayer or vlc (both also free, and more importantly free of the realplayer BS) can handle most video formats.I am Jack's absent signature.
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