Now that I am back to the Mac world (which I should never really have left, in retrospect), I’d like to point out some tools that you may or may not know about. Some of those are pretty incredible. One has a price tag – it is worth it’s money for sure. So here are a few.
But just to make that clear that I’m not bullshitting you… initially the machine was identified as iMac, but apparently after the update to 10.6.4 the machine changed its mind and now thinks it’s a Mac Pro. Which is, for the record, completely cool with me.
So the first app I want to show you is Seashore. It’s an image editing program… not that there’s something funky about that in itself – the cool gimmick is that it is based on GIMP, except it uses a more streamlined Aqua UI which blends the GIMP into Leopard. It uses the same native GIMP file format and can import all those layers and all that jazz. It’s open source, so check it out: Seashore Project
The next one also is an image editor called Pixelmator. However, this one is not based on anything, it’s its own thing. The cool thing with this one though is, not that it looks tremendously cool, it can use some of THE coolest features built into OS X – Quartz Composer. That pretty much opens up all sorts of incredible image manipulation stuff – I doubt that Photoshop CS has tapped into Quartz Composer and/or CoreImage yet – so it is worth a look. It has a price tag of 59 dollars – but I’d say: Well worth the price. Have a look: Pixelmator.
If you need to download something, Transmission is probably what most use. However don’t forget to check out xTorrent. It probably is one of the best and beautifully designed torrent clients for OS X, they claim to be the best. If that holds true, I don’t know, but I’d say it has potential. Only small issue is that you’d have to get a low priced license to keep its unlimited download speed, or it will slow down after a few minutes. Nonetheless this tool is well worth having a look, particularly if you download a lot. Check it out: xTorrent.
Last one I’d like to mention is Burn. As the name says it aids in burning. Not yourself or your house, but CDs and DVDs. It’s straight forward, easy to understand and does exactly what it says on the tin: burn. It’s free so give it a go. Burn.
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