Useful Mac Utilities
I'm one of those weird fangled Mac users you've been hearing so much about. Just in case there're any other Mac users out there who might find this helpful, here're a few third-party utilities that I use a lot.
VLC. A free program that plays any and all types of movie files. Mpeg1, Mpeg2, Mpeg4, AVIs encoded with all sorts of weird codecs, most WMV files.
Flip4Mac WMV Player. A $10 utility that allows you to play all Windows Media .WMV files in Quicktime - including those pesky WMV9 files that even the Mac Windows Media Player won't play.
Fire. A free program that handles nearly every type of chat protocol out there. So intead of using both AIM and Yahoo Messenger, I use Fire and stay logged into both IMs at the same time.
KisMAC. A free utility that helps find and get info on wireless networks. Very useful when wandering around with your laptop.
Chicken of the VNC. A free app that uses the VNC protocol to let me remotely control the other computers on my network.
posted by Eugene at 5:14 PM
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Awesome links, Eugene. Thanks.
For chat clients, I actually use Adium, which does the same thing as Fire.
I've heard good things about Adium. I'll have to check it out. By now, I've gotten so used to Fire's interface - it'll probably be torture for me to change.
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