Technology The Unofficial Mac thread

[Casey]

/\ Agreed. Jobs is a master manipulator.

 

[Flipmo]

How simple do people want a phone to be? Its not rocket science how to use and navigate within a mobile phone if you've used one before. All the smartphones have menus, apps, features etc. from where you can navigate. icons have been used to improve user-friendliness.

Some people are really stupid. lol. We see em in every day life. So Jobs pretty much takes advantage of that. Like Casey and Masta said - great manipulator, and their marketing team doesn't help the cause...

 

[dilla]

Wait, who in here actually bought an Apple computer, and didn't "Hackintosh" their way to it?

Today, I downloaded a few things to finally round up and end my search for apps to make my MBP fully functional and to my needs.

I've been debating the OpenOffice/Mac OFfice 2008/2011 (whether to try the beta)/NeoOffice and finally got iWork to see how that worked out. The templates are fucking awesome. Brochures of all kinds, really opens up the possibilities for schoolwork. I think I like iWork now. Downloaded and used some serial from a YouTube video.

Then, I went ahead and downloaded the Adobe CS5 Master Suite, but after looking at all the shit and how complicated it is, I don't think I'll be using it. I also don't know HTML, although using a program (DreamWeaver, I think? Something that let me design a web page in HTML) I'm really interested in learning some basics and make some dumb shit to burn time.

For burning stuff, I just use Burn. I found a site full of open-source OSX programs and I got a lot of my bases covered there.

Open Source Mac - Free Mac software, all open-source, all OS X.

Also, Apple.com has a section full of freeware, although most of it didn't serve my purposes.

 

[dilla]

Happy 10th, OSX.