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System Name | Dell XPS 15 9560 |
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Processor | I7-7700HQ |
Memory | 32GB DDR4 |
Video Card(s) | GTX 1050/1080 Ti |
Storage | 1TB SSD |
Display(s) | 2x Dell P2715Q/4k Internal |
Case | Razer Core |
Audio Device(s) | Creative E5/Objective 2 Amp/Senn HD650 |
Mouse | Logitech Proteus Core |
Keyboard | Logitech G910 |
Browsers
Firefox
Camino
Chat/IM
Adium- All in one IM tool.
Colloquy- Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.
Audio/Video Tools (Codecs/Players/Etc.)
Handbrake
VLC
Flip4Mac - Allows WM video playing in OS X
DIVX
ffMpegX - Video converting program.
xACT - Audio conversion program.
Senuti - Allows you to extract the music from your iPod back to your computer.
Micro- A free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player. You can download it for Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Virtualization
Parallels - [INTEL ONLY]
Vmware Fusion - [INTEL ONLY]
Crossover
Utilities
Onyx
Azureus - bittorrent client
Toast 7 - fully featured burning suite for cd and dvd.
Pacifist - 3rd party package installer. Lets you control every aspect of using .pkg installers. Seeing where everything goes, changing where everything goes, partial installs, force installing .pkg's that are soft-locked for no good reason, etc., etc.
Tech Tool Pro 4 - Hard disk/volume maintenance and repair program.
Disk Warrior - Another volume maintenance program. Note that I haven't tried Ver 4 yet, only 3. This and Tech Tools both consistently recovered broken volumes for me, but this has a very slightly higher success rate on recovering already damaged volumes. Tech Tools offers more maintenance options, however. Both programs have saved countless Gigs of data for me.
Cocktail - Very similar to Onyx, but offers some different and useful options, especially in reference to network performance settings.
StuffIt Expander - Multiple format archive extractor.
unRarX - Graphical .rar extractor, way more stable than StuffIt at extracting .rar files.
Share Points - Lets you control what folders and volumes are shared over your network
QuickSilver- A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.
Burn- Burning application for Mac OS X
CyberDuck- Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3 browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour.
Carbon Copy Cloner - Similar to Norton Ghost, but far better!
The OSX Folding client: Caution: WILL EAT LAPTOP BATTERY LIFE!
Text/Editors
Neo Office- NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X
SeaShore- Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.
Boot Camp- Now built in to Leopard. (Drivers are located on the Leopard CD that comes with the computer.)
-Terminal
-Disk utility
-OS X CD.
BURNING A CD
This is kinda an unknown, yet blatently simple way to burn data cd's..
Works like windows XP's built in cd burning, except its just a folder you put stuff into. Open folder, click burn and you're off! No need to select cd/dvd/etc, because it just asks for something that fits!
Firefox
Camino
Chat/IM
Adium- All in one IM tool.
Colloquy- Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.
Audio/Video Tools (Codecs/Players/Etc.)
Handbrake
VLC
Flip4Mac - Allows WM video playing in OS X
DIVX
ffMpegX - Video converting program.
xACT - Audio conversion program.
Senuti - Allows you to extract the music from your iPod back to your computer.
Micro- A free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player. You can download it for Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Virtualization
Parallels - [INTEL ONLY]
Vmware Fusion - [INTEL ONLY]
Crossover
Utilities
Onyx
Azureus - bittorrent client
Toast 7 - fully featured burning suite for cd and dvd.
Pacifist - 3rd party package installer. Lets you control every aspect of using .pkg installers. Seeing where everything goes, changing where everything goes, partial installs, force installing .pkg's that are soft-locked for no good reason, etc., etc.
Tech Tool Pro 4 - Hard disk/volume maintenance and repair program.
Disk Warrior - Another volume maintenance program. Note that I haven't tried Ver 4 yet, only 3. This and Tech Tools both consistently recovered broken volumes for me, but this has a very slightly higher success rate on recovering already damaged volumes. Tech Tools offers more maintenance options, however. Both programs have saved countless Gigs of data for me.
Cocktail - Very similar to Onyx, but offers some different and useful options, especially in reference to network performance settings.
StuffIt Expander - Multiple format archive extractor.
unRarX - Graphical .rar extractor, way more stable than StuffIt at extracting .rar files.
Share Points - Lets you control what folders and volumes are shared over your network
QuickSilver- A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.
Burn- Burning application for Mac OS X
CyberDuck- Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3 browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour.
Carbon Copy Cloner - Similar to Norton Ghost, but far better!
The OSX Folding client: Caution: WILL EAT LAPTOP BATTERY LIFE!
Text/Editors
Neo Office- NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X
SeaShore- Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.
Boot Camp- Now built in to Leopard. (Drivers are located on the Leopard CD that comes with the computer.)
-Terminal
-Disk utility
-OS X CD.
BURNING A CD
This is kinda an unknown, yet blatently simple way to burn data cd's..
Works like windows XP's built in cd burning, except its just a folder you put stuff into. Open folder, click burn and you're off! No need to select cd/dvd/etc, because it just asks for something that fits!
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