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    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by cacapis, Jan 20, 2009.

  1. cacapis

    cacapis Notebook Consultant

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    I use both mac at work and pc at home and there's a few applications for the pc that I miss a lot in the mac, so this thread would be for people to say which application of one platform they are missing on the other and also to say what they found.
    For instance, say I use pidgin on my pc and I find Adium to be a great replacement on the mac.
    But I couldn't find any decent replacement for programs like foobar2000.
     
    cacapis, Jan 20, 2009
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  2. StrongerThanAll

    StrongerThanAll Notebook Deity

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    Winrar = unrar X
    Paintbrush = Paintbrush(in apple.com) / Gimp
    Picture viewer = Just looking (you can use arrow keys to see the next picture in the folder instead of opening and closing each one, you can also just press spacebar and use the proper OS X software)

    I am still looking for something to write files in .txt, but as light as notepad (No word and etc)
     
    StrongerThanAll, Jan 20, 2009
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  3. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Text Edit?
     
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    rocketsilence Notebook Enthusiast

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    Textmate. The king of all text editors. Bow before its unyielding greatness.
     
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  5. StrongerThanAll

    StrongerThanAll Notebook Deity

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    i didnt find the .txt option for text edit, only .rtf
     
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  6. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Oh wow, you're right. But then again, you can always rename the file and delete the header...

    Sorry about that..
     
    cdnalsi, Jan 20, 2009
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  7. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    NeoOffice?
     
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  8. circa86

    circa86 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Why would you need to specifically save in the .txt format? Any text reader out there should be able to read .rtf as well as many other formats.
     
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    chen Notebook Deity

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    Miss the apps for tweaking Windows and found OnyX for Mac
     
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  10. sulkorp

    sulkorp Notebook Deity

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    in different programming languages, sometimes you can only read/write to .txt files.just one example

    though for the average user, saving stuff in rtf will be fine across most platforms. nowadays .txt are mainly for specific apps and uses. but for the general user, rtf is probably fine if they want something that everyone can read (with some formatting)
     
    sulkorp, Jan 21, 2009
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  11. fastrandstrongr

    fastrandstrongr Notebook Evangelist

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    same for me. its annoying to delete all the formatting stuff when the software i work with only accepts pure txt's...
     
    fastrandstrongr, Jan 21, 2009
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