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| IceDigger - May 1, 2005 |
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IceDigger | May 1, 2005 | ||
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Feel free to add any advice you have here. Mac OSX Hints... Mac Specialist... - Good list of useful Mac programs. Mac of All Trades... - Place to get used macs. Mac Sales... - Cheapest place for mac upgrades/accessories. | ||||
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Cloud121 | May 2, 2005 | ||
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For instant messaging, get Fire.... Supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, IRC, and Jabber. I use it for all of 'em (Don't use Jabber though). I don't like it, but some others prefer Adium.... For videos, you got QuickTime obviously. If a movie won't play in QT, go with VLC... and MPlayer.... Get both. | ||||
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Weston | May 5, 2005 | ||
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A couple things to get are definitely Fink... and Portage...(for OS X). They both give you one hell of a selection of unix programs and do all the work of compiling and installing them for you. And yes that is Gentoo... Portage system, so it works like normal: emerge whatever. Fink is easy to use to (like portage, but fink has been around for a long time, since the early days of OS X). Just use: fink install whatever (or fink list, to see what it has). Also, there is a GUI front end you can get for Fink at: http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/... | ||||
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Weston | May 5, 2005 | ||
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And before I forget, another awesome site is: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/... It's got tips for speed, bug reports, compatibility reports, etc. Good stuff to check out. | ||||
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ExCyber | May 5, 2005 | |||
As a fairly long-time Gentoo user, I can only say   | |||||