new mac! first time mac user!

[rambosou]

Hey everybody... just wanted to say I switched from Windows to MAC OS X!

I bought a Mac Book Pro last week and it just arrived. I can already say that I am deeply in love with it.

Are there any programs that I should get. Anything that anybody recommends for customization and such?! I'd really like to get the low down on how people use their Macs so let me know!

Thanks!!

 

[Dynamyk]

Check out the Applications subforum, theres plenty of suggestions for programs there.

Congrats

 

[slffl]

Keyboard shortcuts are the most important thing to learn. Those have been the most useful thing for me.

 

[anothermacaddic]

Keyboard shortcuts? Now those are fun! Get an ipod if you dont have one, and then a itv, then maybe someday you will get a iphone and you will be really living the ilife. Try editing some photos. Go to versiontracker and get a bunch of apps and try them out.

Keyboard shortcuts!

 

[heySparky]

Hey everybody... just wanted to say I switched from Windows to MAC OS X!

Congratulations!

Are there any programs that I should get?

Check This thread. Lots of suggestions there.

 

[rambosou]

thanks guys this is perfect!!!!!!

 

[keenkreations]

You can PM me if you have certain programs that you miss from Windows that can be replaced with Mac app equivalents. I just have to say that Quicksilver is one of the best apps that I have ever discovered for the Mac, since it streamlines my work flow.

 

[Xavier]

I also just ordered my MPB but it hasn't come in yet. Even though I have always been on Mac, I am very excited for when it comes in!

 

[MattJessop]

Yeah, Quicksilver is the one thing that you would REALLY miss on Windows, which is why I HAD to get Launchy (The Windows equiv, even has a Quicksilver theme)

Personally one app I say you would HAVE to get is SuperDuper! - and then couple this with Time Machine in Leopard, and you will NEVER worry about back ups ever again