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Must have software

Monty Rand, Photographer

	Bangor \| ME \| USA \| Posted: 9:01 AM on 03.08.06
	->> I'm in the process of installing software on my new Macbook and I started wondering what software everyone else uses. I have the following software installed, but was wondering if there are any other must have apps aside from the apple apps that come pre-installed and the ones listed below. Photo Mechanic PS CS2 Transmit Photo Rescue Office

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Josh Gibney, Photographer

	Dover \| NH \| USA \| Posted: 9:16 AM on 03.08.06
	->> I've made great use of the Noise Ninja plugin for PS (I'm still using PS7 though on PC)

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Joshua Brown, Photographer

	Salt Lake City \| UT \| USA \| Posted: 10:59 AM on 03.08.06
	->> Adium Google Earth iBank Firefox iSale 3 Soundslides Diskwarrior Tech Tool Cocktail Speed Download Spam Sieve DockStar Mail Appetizer Growl Tinkertool CandyBar Coverflow Data Rescue Flip4Mac Export Artwork iTunes XHTML Podner Podworks Toast VLC

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Greg Ferguson, Photographer

	Scottsdale \| Az \| USA \| Posted: 11:57 AM on 03.08.06
	->> Looking through Joshua's list, I'll second his recommendations for FireFox (and add the Web Developer's Toolbar plugin), SpamSieve, and Toast (for better/easier CD/DVD burning). I'll also recommend looking at the beta of Adobe's LightRoom. It's probably not available for the Intel-based PowerBooks yet as it's still in beta, but jump on it when it revs to a suitable version.

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Jim Colburn, Photographer

	Omaha \| NE \| USA \| Posted: 12:07 PM on 03.08.06
	->> You might consider Mac The Ripper or DVDBackup to rip a DVD to your hard drive to watch on a long flight. Thumb up for Toast, Firefox and Disk Warrior.

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Saul Loeb, Photographer

	Phoenix \| AZ \| USA \| Posted: 12:30 PM on 03.08.06
	->> Actually, LightRoom is available for Intel Macs with the latest beta release - its Universal. And it looks like it'll be a great tool.

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Chris Preovolos, Photographer

	Stamford \| CT \| United States \| Posted: 12:38 PM on 03.08.06
	->> I recently began using LiquidCD, a free (or rather donationware) program that replaces Toast. It does everything I need it to do. Its pretty much a knock-off of Toast but doesn't have a couple features like "compare." But hey, its free.

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Paul W Gillespie, Photographer

	Annapolis \| MD \| USA \| Posted: 12:57 PM on 03.08.06
	->> Will Lightroom run on OS 10.3 Panther. I saw that you needed Tiger, but was wondering if anyone who has not upgraded was using it.

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Vasha Hunt, Photographer

Opelika | AL | USA | Posted: 1:42 PM on 03.08.06

->> Mac Janitor - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5856

Allows you to run unix cleanup scripts that normally run in early a.m. hours in the unix servers OS X was built around.

AppleJack - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15667

Runs in Single-User mode (a boot-up option that looks like 1980's DOS - it runs repair routines that can clean things up or ressurect a troubled mac)

iSquint - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19769

Free utillity to convert various video formats to made for Video iPod (you can specify either the iPod screen or the TV output)

Graphic converter - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/3885

Can back up photoshop and sometimes open an odd image file that photoshop won't accept.

Hope these help!

Vasha

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Monty Rand, Photographer

	Bangor \| ME \| USA \| Posted: 2:25 PM on 03.08.06
	->> Great suggestions. Thanks. Some of these apps I do have, but some of the ones I don't have are very cool. Thanks again.

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Al Goldis, Photographer

East Lansing | MI | USA | Posted: 6:25 PM on 03.08.06

->> Monty, I think your list of must-haves is mostly complete. The only other software I might classify as a must-have is Diskwarrior but you don't have to actually install it--just have the CD handy.

Most everything else is not essential if you want your machine to be a "work" machine with the least amount of complexity. In fact I tend to think some of the extras suggested, particularly the "cosmetic enhancement" software, can create problems down the road.

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Mike Isler, Photographer

	Santa Barbara \| CA \| US \| Posted: 6:33 PM on 03.08.06
	->> Don't forget FotoQuote! A must-have for pricing information.

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