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Ceri Davies — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:22:00 +0000

Mostly for my own benefit, here is a list of the (non-base) applications I’ve found most useful on the Mac this week, along with where to get them.

Virtue: Virtual Desktop manager for MacOS X (which I’m a little disappointed isn’t standard, but then it may be confusing for Gran). I’ve made a little .mov format film of it working (QuickTime is not the POS that it is on Windows either)
GPGMail: A dirty hack to get GPG integrated into Apple’s Mail.app
Believe it or not, iTunes. I don’t even have an iPod, and this still outshines everything similar
Firefox. Whatever.

Not a long list, but it hasn’t been a week yet.

I’ve been through a huge amount of shit too; it’s good to know that the spirit of Open Source is not dead. The nice thing about MacOS X seems to be that you can put a GUI round anything (let’s say chown(8), for example) and release it as ShareWare. This time next year, we’ll all be millionaires!

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