Comments on: My wife’s new Macbook Pro,, what’s worth loading on it?!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:20:10 +0000

oh i didnt know of that freemacware.com thankx for posting it!!! I’ve had my macbook pro for about 6 months now.. got it for school. Loves it!!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:50:44 +0000

VoodooPad is awesome for free-form thinking/note-taking/etc.

http://www.flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/

There is a free and a paid version. Either are great IMO.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:18:12 +0000

Gah, I’m jealous of your wife! For mine, I’m going to have to wait until Christmas! (38 days, in case you were wondering)

By: Taylor

Taylor — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:01:48 +0000

The first site I recommend is Freemacware.com. There are five hundred freeware apps on there, all of them have description and a link to the developer’s site. They post one new one everyday.

http://www.freemacware.com/

Their list of favorites:

http://www.freemacware.com/some-of-our-favorites/

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:26:30 +0000

Here’s what I’ve found so far that seems amazing

http://www.yepthat.com/
Yep (it organizes your plethora of pdfs!!)

Quicksilver
http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/

http://www.osxbook.com/software/
where all the fun smacky software is (motion sensor people)

http://www.stellarium.org/
oooh, pretty stars,,,

http://www.alwintroost.nl/content/widgets/dashboardkickstart.xml
kickstart your widgets right from startup!

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/airportradar.html
must detect wireless web,,,

http://menu.jeweledplatypus.org/
a little bit of menubar goodness

I figured this is the easiest way to add to this. Now where’s more Mac data?!