Mac

[cellio]

My Mac Mini arrived Friday, faster than I expected. In an act of will I did not punt my congregation's Friday-evening services, attendance at which required starting Shabbat two hours early, to play with it (and go somewhere else later). I did verify that a VNC server is running on my PC and reachable from my laptop, so I can skip the dual-monitor/keyboard/mouse-on-one-desk setup. So now, off to rearrange bunches of hardware and load up a new machine.

If you've got favorite Mac tips & tricks, sites, software, etc, please feel free to share. I've used an iBook (running Tiger) casually, but as a main machine it's new to me.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Run the "Terminal" app...Unix. (You probably knew that, but at least one Mac/Linux crossover user I knew did not, and spent a long time griping about how there was this darn Unix under there somewhere if only they could get to it.) For an upgraded replacement, try iTerm.

I really like TextMate for editing, partly because I have a custom bundle which does things like highlight quoted text (i.e does syntax highlighting for my *stories*).

I like "Chicken of the VNC"; dunno what you're using.

Delicious Library is a lot of fun for managing collections of books/videos/etc.

Transmission is a decent Bittorrent client.

For news, http://macintouch.com is still my favorite after a decade or more.

[cellio]

Thanks! Yes, already found the terminal and Chicken of the VNC is what I'm using there.