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Originally Posted by Moejoe

There's a free NTFS writing plugin for OSX called NTFS-3g (pretty straightforward) http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

Virutalbox is a free VM solution for OSX (not sure about using bootcamp partition though) http://www.virtualbox.org/

I'll definitely check out NTFS-3G. the only concer I had was whether or not it was compatible with Snow Leopard, But Paragon looks to be having similar issues. Will See.

Virtualbox is nice, but pretty barebones, and with Bootcamp support being a priority, paying for one of the Big boys is probably worth it in my case. But will definitely check it out.

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Things I'd not want to be without now:
Twitterific for Twitter
Calibre for my ebooks
Art Rage & Lineform for graphics
Rapidweaver for website design
Lightroom for photography
Adium for IM

Definately on my list of programs to get or look at.

I'm really curious to see how lightroom is, that as while I have Gigs and gigs of Photos in both Jpeg and RAW, I manage them all manually, which can be a bit of a pain, when managing multiple versions of the same photograph.

I prefer VMWare, the yeti prefers Parallels - although is thinking of giving VMWare a try.

Can I ask why you prefer it over Parallels. While I'm leaning towards VMware a little (Dur to cross platform support for Virtual machines) but am looking at parrallels for the claimed speed benefits.

How complex are the documents going to be? For simple Word & Excel (don't use Powerpoint if I can possibly help it) then iWork is fine. Or OpenOffice. Anything complex, I'd stick with your current Office 2k7 in a vm.

Quiet a lot of complex Word Docs, while need to be proofed for printing, and a ton of complex linked excel sheets (Working partially as as an assistant accountant)

I'm getting the iWork suiet to see if I can do some of thesimple stuff in it, and only need excel for the complex stuff, but will have to see. The main reason I was thinking of getting the Mac version was becausi i'll be able to get it for Academic pricing for the next couple of months, so, £40/$65 may be well worth paying for native support.

Originally Posted by Juliette

Welcome to Mac

Quicksilver. Even if I'm trying to wean myself off it until it's fully compatible with Snow Leopard (might already be, mind you- hope to find out soon )

I add myself to the line in praise given by ShortNCuddlyAm for Twitterrific. Lot of customisation AND still you can use it with ads for free, which is not always the case for a lot of programs anymore (and no, the ads aren't that space-wasting...)

I'm probably going to be trying out all the twitter programs, as I'm a tech news junkie and am constantly on twitter following a ton of people

Ah, and for any uninstalling need (so that you won't have many orphaned files around, once you've dropped the icon in the trashbin): AppCleaner. Works marvellously. Drag-and-Drop, give the ok, go back to the finder and empty trash

Thanks. Run into too many problems in Windows with bad entries and leftovers, so will definitely try to avoid the same in OSX.