Posts tagged “apps”

Useless Mac Applications #2 : Adobe Reader

Posted by Glen on July 4, 2008. No comments.

A classic example of an application that started off performing a simple, useful task (i.e. displaying PDF documents) and has grown to an overly complex, slow, hulking beast of an application. I got scared off by the 251Mb disk space the installer claims that it needs: I’ll stick to Apple’s Preview.app, thanks. Useless Mac Applications [...]

Essential third party Mac apps

Posted by Glen on March 6, 2008. 3 comments.

So, I’m now in the process of getting my new MacBook up to speed in terms of applications. Here are the apps that I decided were essential and needed installing: Yahoo! Messenger last.fm Client TextWrangler Cyberduck Inquisitor OpenOffice Firefox Bingo!