January 29, 2008

Useful Apps for the Mac

Chat: Adium
Works with a dozen different chat networks. The owl is sooo cute too. :)

Remote Access: Chicken of the VNC, Remote Desktop

Browser, Email: Firefox, Thunderbird

FTP: FileZilla

Sharing mouse & kb with PC: Synergy
Use one mouse and keyboard with Mac, PC or Linux. The clipboard works too, most of the time.

Video conversion: Visual Hub
This does a great job converting to H.264 for iTunes. I can't believe it's only $23. You can use KeepVid.com to grab videos from YouTube, then Visual Hub to finish the job.

Playing video not supported by QT: VLC Player, WMP with Flip4Mac
VLC plays various flavors of MPEG.
Flip4Mac lets you play WMVs from a PC.

Backups: Carbon Copy Cloner, WinClone
Carbon Copy is a full disk image copier.
WinClone lets you back up your Boot Camp partition.

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