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Useless Mac Applications #2 : Adobe Reader

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:

Adobe Reader 9 installer

I’ll stick to Apple’s Preview.app, thanks.

Useless Mac Applications #1 : Sherlock

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Essential third party Mac apps

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:

Bingo!

Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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