itunes- i just installed the 7.1 and i am curious what the difference is too! i love itunes, i have it open even if nothing is playing, but i’m always adding songs, or tinkering with playlists (a must when you have over 3000 songs)

mail- i agree that v. 2 is much better than the first. i get a lot of crap mail through my blog,as i’m sure you do, but so far i haven’t felt the need to get an additional spam filter. i will keep spamsieve in mind should there be any developments on that front though

iphoto- i take a ton of photos, and am constantly uploading, editing them, and publishing them to my .mac account. i like keeping all of my photos in one place.

photoshop- i love this program to death. it is so addicting (and expensive). i use this for resizing photographs, coloring my illustrations, creating photo collages, and creating prints of my artwork.

twitterific- a new found addiction…i can’t stop tweeting on twitter.

firefox- i use blogger to publish my blog, and this is the only web app that allows me to enjoy all of bloggers features. there are other benefits to firefox, and i do use safari as well, but ff is definitely my primary browser for the above mentioned reasons.

ichat- i don’t use this as much as i used to (in the college days), but it is still the best way for me to keep in touch with my friends living outside of NYC.

grab- i use grab all of the time ususally to create thumbnails of my photographs or illustrations. i could use other programs to do this (hello photo shop), but grab is so simple and easy. the only downside is that it saves the images in tiff format and i have to re save it in a jpeg format…it takes two seconds, and it could be that you can make it save initially in a jpeg format and i just haven’t figured that out. what i’m trying to say (badly) is i do use the application quite alot.

finder- use it non-stop, i don’t think i need anything else.

-Kate

However, aside from those few, everything else is the full version.

I’ve always been under the impression that the copies of Pages and Keynote that were preinstalled are demos.

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– Jack Hodgson

I’m debating switching to it too, or at least trying it for regular work. I’ve been using Circus Ponies Notebook for taking notes in class for a while and really like it. I highly recommend taking a look at it. You can get a full 30 day demo at http://www.circusponies.com/.

I’m also trying out OmniGraffle for brainstorming and quick diagrams for my notes since Notebook doesn’t provide this feature.

But about the firefox, I used it when I was using windows (bad times) and loved it. But for my PowerBook G4, it does not make its paper. There are some bugs and the scroll is little bitt odd… Don’t know why…

Just do Command-Shift-4 then drag from left to right and it’ll capture it to a file.

If you’d like to do just certain window items do Command-shift-4 then hit the spacebar.

Hope this helps someone.

Note: Firefoxy has not been updated, when patching Firefox 2, just answer Firefoxy saying you have version 1.5, and you should have no problems.

I’ll be continuing my look at this app and post something here if it merits.

Very good point about Quicksilver. I (kinda arbitrarily) limited my post to things that were visible in the application dock. I do run Quicksilver all the time. I was a little bit late to that party, I only installed it a couple months ago, but now I use it constantly. Another hidden app that’s been running more-or-less full-time recently is Twitterific. And I have the little MenuMeters thing running that shows CPU and memory load up on my menu bar. Also SoundSource for quickly switching audio in and out sources.

As for TextExpander. I’ve created an extensive set of “Clippings” in BBEdit (they were formerly called “Glossaries”) which I use for all sorts of text insertion, and shortcuts. I may post something here about some of the BBEdit Clippings I use the most.

– Jack

Quicksilver is a must for people who wish to be more productive and more adept at controlling their Macs.

As for Quicktime PLayer - with the Perian plugin (www.perian.org), I prefer QT over VLC for all my media.

What about TextExpander (nee Textpander)? It’s an awesome app that saves tons of repetitive typing of common things like addresses, the fax number you can never seem to remember, whole lines of html or other code, etc. It’s a must-have. TextExpander is something like $30 but wholly worth it.

Jason