[Gary54]

Mac GPS???
You are missing a good one:
Route Buddy
http://www.routebuddy.com/index.html
Other GPS on Mac:
http://highearthorbi...ddy-gps-on-mac/

[Buffyzdead]

{quote:title=8corewhore wrote:}{quote}I LOVE Netflix, but their streaming video sucks. I get 7Mbps throughput, yet the video still stutters and freezes constantly - making it unusable for me. The problem? It doesn't allow for buffering like other streaming videos do. I guess no buffering for DRM reasons. Yet another way the studios are unable to move forward. They're like the monkey with the apple in his fist, stuck through the bars, unable to let go.

Not here. Works Perfect. Look to your set-up as the cause, NOT Netflix.

Set up a $200 XP-Proffessional white box (from ebay), with wireless g and vanilla video card behind my 46" XBR5.

Video out cable to PC Input on TV.

Wireless Keyboard w/Trackpad on Coffee Table. The ones designed to work with the PS3 by Logitech.

Connected XP box wirelessly to upstairs (35 to 40 feet away, through walls) Linksys wireless g router.

TV Streaming from Netflix is perfection.

I did just order that $100.00 Netflix Roku box for my girlfriend's house. Will see how that works soon.

[Gary54]

quote" Internet Explorer 7
Some poorly designed sites still demand Internet Explorer, and the five-year-old Mac version isn’t up to the job. IE 7 can give you access to those sites. And if you’re a Web site creator, you can run Windows IE in a virtual machine so see what your site will look like to the majority of the world."

Do you mind explaining to me why Mac users should continue to support, aid, abet and condone IE only websites which are expressly designed to keep out competition to other operating systems (ie: MacOS, Linux et all) or browsers at the expense of web standards?
IE only websites are created by M$ only web development apps which are part of the deliberate system to lock out the competition and further the creation of a M$ hegemony? We Mac users in other words.

The best course of action when visiting a site that is IE only is to write the site owner and give them a piece of your mind for having a non web standard not Mac or anything else compatiable site. Not switch to IE on Windows.

Killer app? As an application, its a hunk of junk. F*ck IE. In any version.

[Gary54]

I would also make that observation about other apps like Quicken where the Mac version is a "poor second cousin". You as a Mac user want feature parity? The only way to encourage companies like Intuit who don't give feature parity is carrot and stick. Just like anything else in life.

Refuse to buy or use the Windows version .. no matter what it is.
Buy something else which is Mac supportive or by a Mac developer.
Intuit and all the others can read it and weep as the Mac user base continues to grow.
You switchers have joined a discriminated against minority. If you want feature parity, it's up to you to do your part now to if this is going to continue to gain momentum and grow.

You have a decision to make just like any of the Mac users from years ago. You decided to buck the system and get a Mac because you wanted a better machine. Now you have a better machine. But find yourself locked out from feature parity in some cases and services in other cases. Deliberately so in an attempt to wipe you ... the Mac user out. You can act in sef interest and continue to use Windows because its handy, (some because they have to) or lend a hand in your newy adopted community for change

How many times have you heard person "A" say they won't use a Mac because Yahoo (or something) doesn't have the same features? Has nothing to do with whether the computer can do it or not do it. It has to do with ... people who write programs for money, bean counters and ...... you. And you. And you. Every person who continues to use Windows who has an option in the matter further delays any substantive change for native parity software and services. And uncuts developers in the Mac community.Or those deveopers who are now joining the Mac community.

There are thousands of new applications becoming available which are Mac only .. taking advantge of the new underlying abilities of the OS .... which have feature sets none of us have seen before. So many new apps its difficult to find them many times.

It was in your interest to get a Mac. Its in your interest to see that continue to grow.

[lamps]

The only one that really kills me is Quickbooks. There really is not a viable alternative to Quickbooks, and the Quickbooks for Mac is, sadly, a poor second cousin to the one for Windows. While I understand that there are programs like MYOB for Mac, which are quite good, the learning curve for them is quite long and much less intuitive than Quickbooks. In addition, most accountants can only use info from Windows versions of Quickbooks,.

[Gary54]

{quote:title=lamps wrote:}{quote}
The only one that really kills me is Quickbooks. There really is not a viable alternative to Quickbooks, and the Quickbooks for Mac is, sadly, a poor second cousin to the one for Windows. While I understand that there are programs like MYOB for Mac, which are quite good, the learning curve for them is quite long and much less intuitive than Quickbooks. In addition, most accountants can only use info from Windows versions of Quickbooks,.

I use MYOB. No, its not as intuitive.
There is a big opportunity for some enterprising developer to fill here. Business and accounting is where a lot of opportunities lie for developers. Its a wide open field if someone takes that ball and runs with it.

The Mac mini and the iMac are some of the best office terminal computers to ever come down the pike. The mini is an un recognized gem for the business community. It will do anything a business user needs from an office terminal or stand alone.. at what? 25 watts? And 6" of deskspace?

There has to be the software to go with it too.

[bigpics]

lamps said:

The only one that really kills me is Quickbooks. There really is not a viable alternative to Quickbooks, and the Quickbooks for Mac is, sadly, a poor second cousin to the one for Windows. While I understand that there are programs like MYOB for Mac, which are quite good, the learning curve for them is quite long and much less intuitive than Quickbooks. In addition, most accountants can only use info from Windows versions of Quickbooks.

1. I was up and running in a day on MYOB with the excellent intro materials, user guides and other support from MYOB (I use First Edge, which is much less expensive than Quicken) -- and complaints about support for QB Mac are easily found. Try the Amazon.com user comments!!



My accountant told me I brought him cleaner records than many companies he's done for 10 or 15 years -- and I hadn't done any computer accounting, nor any paper bookkeeping for over 12 years.



2. MYOB programs aren't exactly cross-platform, but they do have Win versions too, the files are FULLY compatible -- AND -- they will send a FREE copy to your accountant, Windows or Mac, your accountant's choice.



On another topic of more killer programs (including one that's also available on Mac)....



Here's one: Re Internet Explorer and FireFox, what's up with no rich text editor in the MACWORLD INTERFACE on APPLE'S OWN SAFARI????!



Not everyone knows how to add HTML para codes..... ...and a "Plain text markup help" button is not parity.



So it's plain embarrassing that the premiere Mac website doesn't fully work with the premiere Mac browser, no??

[People_Eater]

Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player? That's insane.
Use IE to support sites that can't write decent code? No thanks. Use Windows Media Player just to lock me into Microsoft DRM and support their monopolistic, crappy media standards? No way.
The author has a very strange idea of what a "killer app" is. If you want some awesome Windows apps that you just can't get the equivalent of on the Mac - it's Slysoft's AnyDVD (and AnyDVD HD) and Clone DVD (and Clone DVD HD). They will copy any DVD, and even Blu-Ray discs and HD-DVD. Yes, there are some good Mac tools for this, but they often fall down on some copy-protection schemes. The Slysoft stuff is the best in its category.

[TAllenSr]

I have a completely separate WinXP VM image for only my Financial Apps (Quicken Home & Business and TurboTax). I wish I could do everything I needed to do natively on my Mac, but the PC versions simply do more and work better with my bank and investment accounts.
I know Intuit's Chairman, Bill Campbell, has a long history with Apple, starting there as a VP and I believe he still has a seat on Apple's Board. You would think that would cause him to drive the feature parity of his products on the Mac better.

[lamps]

I know that is probably true, but my business partner has been using Quickbooks for 13 years and getting him to learn a new program (ie: me teaching him) would take more time than we have at this point in our growth.

[iBoxer]

What about AutoDesk programs? The lack of support for the mac is the single reason I won't buy mac, and I really really want to get one. AutoCAD, Revit Architecture, and 3Ds Max all scream for mac versions to be released.

[lrivers]

I've had pretty good luck with OmniPlan/Project compatibility. It's also fun to show Project users the gorgeous output.

[lrivers]

One category for which there really is NO decent Mac solution is GIS software (I'm pretty geeky, but I've never gotten GRASS to do anything but the demo files, which doesn't help).

[Gary54]

{quote:title=iBoxer wrote:}{quote}
What about AutoDesk programs? The lack of support for the mac is the single reason I won't buy mac, and I really really want to get one. AutoCAD, Revit Architecture, and 3Ds Max all scream for mac versions to be released.

I hear you on that one. I'm a VW user myself. The only reply right now is:
Revit is Autodesk's answer to ArchiCad. Graphisoft was recently bought up by the same folks who bought up VW some years ago, a German outfit that has a lot of AEC offerings that just don't make it across the pond. As a positive sign, they have beefed up and added to the feature set of VW, and released a simpler, less expensive and more drafting oriented version of ArchiCad.
Vectorworks is a very competent program compared to AutoCad in any of its forms and got rave reviews from Cadalyst the last time.
3Ds Max is the easiest. There are too many out there which will output similar work. From Cheetah3D on the low end to form-Z, Cinema4D (owned by the same German outfit) or Maya (owned by AutoDesk) on the high end,
But by and large, you have the same point many do. The CAD and engineering offerings for Mac OS are very limited.