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  Talking About Life With Mac OS X
Subject:   I like this.
Date:   2001-05-05 11:06:39
From:   plumcreek
You should definitely do more of these. I found the chat informative and entertaining.


About MacOS X: I use MacOS X daily for everything that I need or want to do -


PHP & HTML programming (Pepper)


Genealogy (GEDitCOM)


Word Processing (TextEdit - It works great for letters and little bits of this and that that I want to store somewhere, most of my communication nowadays is via the web and email anyway, I just need a cheap doc to rtf converter...)


Accounting (AccountEdge)


Email (Mail)


Web Browsing (Omniweb)


Flowcharts and Diagrams (OmniGraffle - to be honest, before OmniGraffle I rarely diagramed my programs during the design phase, now I wouldn't dream of NOT doing it, OmniGraffle is THAT good and THAT easy to use.)


Graphic Editing (Create and via X11 - the Gimp).


These only scratch the surface. Real apps that people rely on are here today. There is no reason for me to go back to OS 9. I never launch Classic. The terminal is awesome, there is no other way to describe it and the power it has.


I believe a lot of people could make the switch to MacOS X today and be able to do everything they are accustomed to doing, without ANY problems.


Again, kudos on the article idea. Very nice.
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  • Derrick Story photo I like this: Two Cool OS X Apps ... and Free!
    2001-05-05 16:36:19  Derrick Story | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [View]

    I have two more cool native Mac OS X apps for you that you might not be aware of: WorldText and Sketch.

    In adition to some very nice word processing tools, WorldText provides an RTF option in the Save dialogue box (in addition to Unicode and SimpleText formats).

    Sketch is also terrific -- provides you with some nice vector drawing tools, text handling, and other fun stuff. As a bonus, you have the option to "Save a Copy As" in either PDF or Tiff formats. Wow!

    The best part, these two apps are free and right there on your Mac OS X CD. Make sure you have the Developer Tools installed, then go:

    Developer --> Applications --> Extras

    Have fun!