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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I'm about to add a Mac Mini to the stable of computers that live on or under my desk, so I'm wondering what software I should look for. I plan on doing at least some writing on it, and I know about Scrivener - but I'm curious what else I should look for.
As always, free is good.
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So, first of all congratulations, Lemurion. Welcome to the Mac world. Even if they are a closed shop, Mac is the way computers should always have been, and Linux (my second favourite and long-time home) would do well to head in the same direction.
Now, let's see what I've got in my Applications folder and subfolders...
1Password for all your passwords (not free)
Firefox, as my bank wouldn't allow Safari (they've changed their minds now)
GPG
MGBD Chinese-English Dictionary, but you probably won't need that... (not free)
Open Office, as mentioned by Lindsay
And then in the Additions folder:
Was forced to add ADE for library books
Aeon (temporarily dead timeline organizer for Scrivener)
Barnes & Noble E-reader
Calibre (E-book manager and initial converter of documents to epub)
Celtx (for scriptwriting)
Gimp (God I hate that program! It does everything except what I want.)
Gnucash
Kindle for Mac
LilbreOffice (not yet ready for the general public, but real soon now...)
MacBookReader (not used it yet, don't know why I got it)
Nvu - my son added this. Something to do with websites I believe.
Sigil (for editing epubs when Calibre has converted to them)
Skype of course
Storylines (not free but essential until Aeon comes back to life)
uTorrent
VLC (supposed to allow you to change video formats, but it would be easier with Textedit! It does, however, play things DVD player can't.)
Then I have a bunch of stuff for formatting and burning DVDs, none of which are suitable for the inexperienced, and thus just lie there taking up space. And one or two shell scripts for drm removal and the like, but I'm not supposed to mention them.
All free except where stated.
//James