Macs

so at my awesome new job i've got an fairly new imac to play around with. it's dual core 3.06 ghz only 4gigs of ram but it should be able to do fun things.

i just downloaded vox to play music and to play around with effects and to not have itunes. i popped my cpu usage on the desktop and that's pretty kewl.

this thread is basically for long time pc users who want to poke their mac

  On 6/9/2011 at 6:51 PM, theSun said:

i just downloaded vox to play music and to play around with effects and to not have itunes.

oh for fucks sake. why don't you just use a fucking pc in that case? "OS-optimized software? fuck that"

yeah if you've only used itunes on a pc.... you have no idea how bad you've had it. itunes on mac.... "it just works."

wow you fucking faggots know how to be dick tards and fuck up the thread

i have a pc too (several actually), but i've NEVER played with a mac.

i just went thru my email and booked a meeting in ical just by clicking on a time in the body of the message (eg, "today at 3:30")

get this: http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

never look back.

push ctrl + alt + cmd + 8 at the same time

use vlc if you do not like itunes

go to your applications folder

press cmd+a

then press cmd+o

it's awesome!

  On 6/9/2011 at 7:16 PM, theSun said:

wow you fucking faggots know how to be dick tards and fuck up the thread

you are slowly going to realize that you should have done this years ago

  On 6/9/2011 at 7:53 PM, oscillik said:

go to your applications folder

 

press cmd+a

then press cmd+o

 

it's awesome!

lol

I've been dual booting W7/10.6.7 for a few days so I'm interested in hearing about what I should check out too. I don't really recommend Fidelia for playing music. I feel like I've been spoilt with Foobar and MPC-HC on windows. UnRarX seems to be the decent unarchiver (unpacks multi-part archives with the least hassle).

get ecoute

  On 6/9/2011 at 8:03 PM, verticalhold said:

get ecoute

thats nice

Is there something that I can just point to a folder of flacs on another drive?

Alright. Cog looks like it'll do the trick.

Set up spaces. this is my favorite part of my laptop. You can run itunes in one space, firefox in another, pages in another...possibilties are endless really, and you actually do save a lot of time just by hitting command-1 or command-2 instead of minimizing all the dam windows.

  On 6/9/2011 at 8:32 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

Is there something that I can just point to a folder of flacs on another drive?

 

Alright. Cog looks like it'll do the trick.

vlc

  On 6/9/2011 at 7:36 PM, phling said:

get this: http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

never look back.

Why would you pay for that when you can get Quicksilver for free?

Oh and just use iTunes to play your music. It suycks balls on Windows - but it's great on the Mac.

You will need Fluke to play flac files.

i know a mac. he's into psychedelics

anyting cool I can do on a computer huuuuurrrr duuuuuuurrrr

lol i meant no offense dude, deleting itunes is just a generally-unnecessary first step in getting a mac. if you have video-playback issues and don't want vlc, you can always get perian, which is...a codec library for quicktime i guess? definitely opens up the capabilities of quicktime a bit if you're into that.

VirtualDJ Home is pretty cool free mixing software available on the app store if you have it. Shit name but it's surprisingly powerful.

  On 6/9/2011 at 10:02 PM, chenGOD said:

  On 6/9/2011 at 7:36 PM, phling said:

get this: http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

never look back.

Why would you pay for that when you can get Quicksilver for free?

it doesn't crash, for one. i kind of missed some of the QS features at first but Launchbar feels more lightweight, and last time i checked (after SL update) it seemed Quicksilver wasn't being worked on anymore so..

If you had a macbook you could do this: