BabyGotMac: Evernote beta invitations up for grabs
Bob Becksted
· 1 year ago
Here's my current top 5, (non-ordered, moment to moment they shift): Twitterific NetNewsWire VLC Toast and the iPhone (it is a mac extension).
TIA for the Evernote invite.
BobB
Kevin Roman
· 1 year ago
Flow - Beautiful ftp with QuickView.
SketchUp - Quick, 3D sketching.
Moneydance - Like Microsoft Money for Mac ... and Windows ... and Linux.
Name Mangler - The one thing I can't believe Mac doesn't do on its own.
SimplyBurns - Simply burns. And Martin himself responds for support.
Extra Credit: Displaperture - Losing rounded menu bar corners was Leopard's biggest mistake.
PV
· 1 year ago
1Password - For people with early Alzheimer like me!
Together - Organization software
Smultron - Code editor with the best price - Free!
Handbrake - to backup a DVD
NetNewsWire - RSS
TIA for the Evernote Beta invite!
Marie F
· 1 year ago
Handbrake - to backup DVD
Mac the Ripper - to copy DVDs (I have little ones who like to run their own DVD player yet they scratch them up since they forget to put them back. So, I make copies for their use while I keep the original near me.)
Skype - VOIP calls
EyeTV - Records from TV
Bento - Organization
Jeff
· 1 year ago
I like Handbrake, Mac the Ripper, twitterifc, twiddla, and netvibes.
TIA for the Evernote Beta invite!
Isaac Wiebe
· 1 year ago
I can't live without:
Quicksilver NetNewsWire Camino 1Password Perian
These five are the first apps added to any system I use for more than 5 mins.
TIA for the Evernote Beta invite!
ScottMac
· 1 year ago
Only 2 left (reserved a couple for friends, sorry!).
Don't forget to share your invites too! Feel free to @babygotmac on twitter if you want to post your invite link.
Evernote sounded like a great idea until I played with it today and realized:
-The text recognition in photos is pretty poor. Evernote only recognized text in about 1 of every 10 of my photos. Not very reliable.
-Syncing with Evernote servers was constantly slow, and I began to feel uncomfortable thinking of my personal tidbits constantly streaming back and forth from a third-party server.
-'Paste to Evernote' created notes from whatever happened to be in my clipboard, not what I had highlighted on a web page, while "Clip screenshot" sometimes created a note of the screenshot, sometimes just a note consisting of the URL.
-Evernote drove me to "remember everything"--which is not really what we need. I was cataloguing every flower, but missing the whole field.
-I realized I was creating MORE work for myself. With Evernote, I would spend an ever greater amount of time tagging and SEARCHING through my info. Right now, when I have info to file, I put it where it belongs. Then if I need a photo, it's already there in iPhoto. I need an email address, it's already there in Address Book as I write an email. I need a website, it's already there in Bookmarks as I use Safari. Putting things where they belong in the first place guarantees they are exactly where you need them when you need them. When I need dinner, I usually find it in the fridge. When I need to grab shampoo, I don't have to hunt, it's always in the bathroom. Evernote is more like putting the entire contents of your home in one large plastic garbage bag--and when you need something, searching and fishing it out. I realized I would waste a lot of time SEARCHING through Evernote because I wouldn't know what I had or where I had it. Imagine 500 notes of business cards snapped in a webcam. This huge plastic garbage bag of tidbits and clippings and screen caps in my computer started to look pretty ugly. I don't need yet ANOTHER place to store and search for things. I'll keep my stuff organized how I have it now: Everything in its place.
Erv Walter
· 1 year ago
If you have one left, I'd love one.
My top 5: Adobe Lightroom, AppZapper, Audio Hijac Pro, VMware Fusion, and VisualHub.
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Twitterific
NetNewsWire
VLC
Toast
and the iPhone (it is a mac extension).
TIA for the Evernote invite.
BobB
SketchUp - Quick, 3D sketching.
Moneydance - Like Microsoft Money for Mac ... and Windows ... and Linux.
Name Mangler - The one thing I can't believe Mac doesn't do on its own.
SimplyBurns - Simply burns. And Martin himself responds for support.
Extra Credit: Displaperture - Losing rounded menu bar corners was Leopard's biggest mistake.
Together - Organization software
Smultron - Code editor with the best price - Free!
Handbrake - to backup a DVD
NetNewsWire - RSS
TIA for the Evernote Beta invite!
Mac the Ripper - to copy DVDs (I have little ones who like to run their own DVD player yet they scratch them up since they forget to put them back. So, I make copies for their use while I keep the original near me.)
Skype - VOIP calls
EyeTV - Records from TV
Bento - Organization
TIA for the Evernote Beta invite!
Quicksilver
NetNewsWire
Camino
1Password
Perian
These five are the first apps added to any system I use for more than 5 mins.
TIA for the Evernote Beta invite!
Don't forget to share your invites too! Feel free to @babygotmac on twitter if you want to post your invite link.
TvShows
VLC
mercury messenger
audio codex
-The text recognition in photos is pretty poor. Evernote only recognized text in about 1 of every 10 of my photos. Not very reliable.
-Syncing with Evernote servers was constantly slow, and I began to feel uncomfortable thinking of my personal tidbits constantly streaming back and forth from a third-party server.
-'Paste to Evernote' created notes from whatever happened to be in my clipboard, not what I had highlighted on a web page, while "Clip screenshot" sometimes created a note of the screenshot, sometimes just a note consisting of the URL.
-Evernote drove me to "remember everything"--which is not really what we need. I was cataloguing every flower, but missing the whole field.
-I realized I was creating MORE work for myself. With Evernote, I would spend an ever greater amount of time tagging and SEARCHING through my info. Right now, when I have info to file, I put it where it belongs. Then if I need a photo, it's already there in iPhoto. I need an email address, it's already there in Address Book as I write an email. I need a website, it's already there in Bookmarks as I use Safari. Putting things where they belong in the first place guarantees they are exactly where you need them when you need them. When I need dinner, I usually find it in the fridge. When I need to grab shampoo, I don't have to hunt, it's always in the bathroom. Evernote is more like putting the entire contents of your home in one large plastic garbage bag--and when you need something, searching and fishing it out. I realized I would waste a lot of time SEARCHING through Evernote because I wouldn't know what I had or where I had it. Imagine 500 notes of business cards snapped in a webcam. This huge plastic garbage bag of tidbits and clippings and screen caps in my computer started to look pretty ugly. I don't need yet ANOTHER place to store and search for things. I'll keep my stuff organized how I have it now: Everything in its place.
My top 5: Adobe Lightroom, AppZapper, Audio Hijac Pro, VMware Fusion, and VisualHub.