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    Equivalent Applications

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by taelrak, Jun 15, 2007.

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    What are the equivalent applications in OSX for these Windows programs? When I say "equivalent" I mean something that does the same function or better, with the same features, for the same or less amount of memory footprint. Especially there's a Mac program that does the same but is far better.

    1. Nero
    2. utorrent (besides Azureus)
    3. CCCP (besides VLC and mplayer)
    4. IrfanView
    5. Nods32/Kaspersky

    I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of them at this minute.

    Thanks!
     
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    1) Roxio Toast is probably the most direct equivalent to something like Nero.
    2) A variety of Torrent options, depending on your needs. Transmission and Tomato Torrent are probably some of the most popular.
    3) Not sure about an equivalent to a codec/player package like that besides just something like VLC or MPlayer.
    4) There's all sorts of viewers/etc. GraphicConverter has been a long-time popular Mac app; it does all sorts of stuff, but includes slideshow functionality, etc. http://www.lemkesoft.com/
    5) There are some Mac antivirus programs, etc. but they aren't really all that popular on the Mac platform.There's McAfee Virex for the Mac, Norton AntiVirus, Sophos AntiVirus, ClamXav, VirusBarrier, etc.
     
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    Thanks Zadillo...it's amazing how many programs I tend to use on a daily basis that I just take for granted.

    Wonder what I'm missing...
     
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    A few other common ones...

    FTP Client: My favorites are:

    Transmit: http://www.panic.com/transmit/
    CyberDuck: http://cyberduck.ch/

    Text/HTML Editing:

    TextWrangler: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
    BBEdit: http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

    Web Development:
    Coda: http://www.panic.com/coda/

    and finally:

    QuickSilver: http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
    Kind of hard to describe this one, but it's proven indispensable to me...... just check it out... :)
     
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