Your Favorite Freeware Lately (mine is reviewed here)

[tuqqer]

I'd be curious to know your latest freeware that you find useful.

Mine is TapDex. Everyone in our office has been using it for the past 6 weeks. Love it. TapDex "gives you a quick and simple search interface to your Mac OS X's Address Book.

Tap the hot key and up pops a search window, start typing to narrow down your search. TapDex is small, fast and takes up very little resources. It is designed to run in the background and activated with a hot key. Customize it to auto-launch on log in and all your Address Book contacts are one tap away.

Freebie TapDex is here:
http://www.yellowmug.com/tapdex/

[mikebw]

I just got Perian http://perian.org/, it allows you to watch FLV and other format videos in Quicktime.

[volcs0]

Foldershare / Windows Live Sync

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_FolderShare

Couldn't live without it - keeps my three machines (home, work, laptop) in perfect sync with one another, all the time. I hope they don't ruin it with Live Mesh ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Mesh ).

[lazydays]

Transmission for torrents is probably my most used application. Unrarx for putting the individual files back together. Handbrake for videos. Firefox for all the pages safari can't open. ffmpegx for video conversion. Chickenof the vnc for remote controlling the server room. Adium for instant messaging. Cabos for gnutella downloads (rare anymore).

Thanks for the foldershare tip volcs0, i'm going to give that a try.

[lazydays]

Oh, and neooffice, couldn't make it without that one!

[kj4btkljv]

lazydays wrote:
Adium for instant messaging..

Can you please explain your instant messaging setup? Does it require an account somewhere, a server, file sharing, anything weird, etc.? I've been curious and want to try it here at the office, I just don't know where to get started. If you want to PM so the thread doesn't get cluttered with your response, that's OK too.

Thanks!

Oh, and favorite Freeware would be Chicken of the VNC for remote control, and GenPass for generating strong passwords with the click of a button.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ne...hevnc.html

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/9800&vid=114620

Jeff

[tuqqer]

lazydays wrote:
Can you please explain your instant messaging setup? Does it require an account somewhere, a server, file sharing, anything weird, etc.? I've been curious and want to try it here at the office, I just don't know where to get started. If you want to PM so the thread doesn't get cluttered with your response, that's OK too.

Heck, keep it here. I'd like to see any dialog on it, too.

Personally, I'm just using iChat. Requires either an AIM account (easy to get free at aim.com) or a MobileMe account. I have it on ALL the time, as do each of my employees. We use it for Screen Share, texting back and forth (especially during times when someone's on the phone, kind of like a sticky note for them to read), and file transfers. It's a brilliant app.

If I had more friends that used other protocols, I'd be using Adium.

[volcs0]

tuqqer wrote:
[quote=lazydays]
Can you please explain your instant messaging setup? Does it require an account somewhere, a server, file sharing, anything weird, etc.? I've been curious and want to try it here at the office, I just don't know where to get started. If you want to PM so the thread doesn't get cluttered with your response, that's OK too.

Heck, keep it here. I'd like to see any dialog on it, too.

Personally, I'm just using iChat. Requires either an AIM account (easy to get free at aim.com) or a MobileMe account. I have it on ALL the time, as do each of my employees. We use it for Screen Share, texting back and forth (especially during times when someone's on the phone, kind of like a sticky note for them to read), and file transfers. It's a brilliant app.

If I had more friends that used other protocols, I'd be using Adium.
I do all of my chat from within the gmail interface. Very slick, and if I miss something, it is archived along with everything else - and I can access it from any machine.

[mhale62]

FinderPop 2.2 gives we Mac users the right-click or Control-click options (and then some) that Windows users have always enjoyed… and the author Turly O'Conner is a very cool guy into the bargain.

VideoSpec is very handy for getting the specs on pretty much any video file you point it at.

[tuqqer]

PS: I also do a lot of daily vid chats, mainly with friends all over the world. Sometimes it works, and sometimes not, but when it does, it's just amazing.