Comments on: Loading Up My New Mac

By: Mark T

Mark T — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:35:54 +0000

I have been using a mac now for around three years and find the following software really useful:
Backdrop – for blanking out the screen ideal for taking simple screenshots.
Screensteps – for creating teaching materials (specifically walkthroughs)
iShowU – simple screencapture software that saves instantly as a quicktime file (used for recording lectures)
Screenflow – for preparing more sophisticated screencasts using the screen plus isight
Transmission – my preferred bittorrent client
Pixelmator, Vectordesigner, openoffice, mousepose, grandperspective, garagesale, coda, etc

By: Betsy Weber

Betsy Weber — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:55:00 +0000

Thanks for using Jing! I appreciate it!

I’d love to get your feedback and show off on our blog how you’re using it. Drop me a line if you get a change.

Thanks again –
Betsy Weber, Chief Evangelist
TechSmith

By: Alec

Alec — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:14:05 +0000

Hi Holly,
I’ve had my fair share of issues with Firefox as well, in fact, it seems to crash fairly often on both my MacBook Pro and my MacPro. However, I do love the extensions available, it’s design, speed and that it is open source. Philosophically, the latter point, is huge to me.

I’ve tried going the Safari route a few times, but never like the way it renders some pages … it just doesn’t work in a lot of cases with some multimedia sites I access. I am not sure what the issues is.

As for XTorrent and Acquisition, I realize they are from the same company and I have used them both. I know Acquisition was certainly nag-ware, but I have never had any experiences of it hijacking my browser … not on Firefox anyways. Xtorrent certainly doesn’t (at least the paid version). I have used virtually every torrent client out there for the Mac, and this by far, is the best. But, I do understand your point if you have had that experience, as I do get turned off in those type of cases when software companies use methods like that.

Thanks for reading, I appreciate your comments.
All the best!

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:33:07 +0000

Hmmm…. with regards to why someone would want to use Safari, it could be because Firefox is not perfect all of the time. I have a real problem with Firefox, running *no* extensions, stalling on my beautiful Mac G5 desktop machine. It made me laugh when I realised that Safari was rapidly becoming my go-to browser. Unfortunately, not all apps work for all people all of the time. And Firefox still has some issues to iron out. Now, as for X Torrent, after previous experience with Acquisition, a p2p client from the same developer, I swore that I would not support them financially due to their vicious hijacking of your browser. Nothing says “Delete me!” quite as quickly as a program that is intercepting your other applications. I am okay with the prompt at the beginning of a program, however, I do not agree with their techniques, and feel that the jazzy interface is not worth the money when there are a variety of free and lightweight apps available. Is the interface design quite as slick? Perhaps not. Are they intentionally Mac-designed? No, but, any user would be able to find ample support in user forums, to get them off the ground in no time. So no, no X Torrent for me!

I am really enjoying you r blog, keep up the good work!

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By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:15:55 +0000

Take a look at Yep (http://www.yepthat.com/ ). It is a great PDF management tool. It is pretty much “iPhoto for PDFs”. I have used it to manage all of the reference articles I have downloaded as PDF files.
Very handy app…