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New Mac Users | Apps for Transitioning from PC to Mac

Posted by Scott | August 13, 2007 .

Just about everyday I hear people complaining about how the Mac sucks because it cant do one thing or another.  However, these are the same people who havent used a mac since OS 9 and really have no clue what they’re talking about.

Not once has someone been able to say they can do something on a PC that I haven’t been able to find an application on the Mac that will do the same thing (in most cases do it better).  So for that reason I decided to put together a list of the most common tasks people do on a PC and provided some options for doing them on the Mac.  If your new to the Mac then maybe you’ll learn something new.

The “I can do anything you can do list”:

  • Text Editors –> SubEthaEdit, Text Edit
  • Web Browsers –> Firefox, Safari, Opera
  • Office Applications –>Microsoft Office, OpenOffice
  • .zip Decompression –>Stuffit Expander
  • .rar Decompression –> UnRarX
  • Email –> Apple Mail, Entourage, Thunderbird
  • Media Player –>VLC, DivX
  • File Burning –> Toast, Popcorn, Burn, Disco
  • DVD Ripping –> Mac the Ripper, Handbrake
  • Instant Messaging –> AdiumX, Fire, AIM
  • FTP Applications –> Cyberduck, Fetch, Transmit
  • BitTorrent –> Tomato Torrent, Transmission, Azureus
  • RSS –> Vienna, Newsfire

If you have something you’ve been trying to do on a Mac or are just an annoying PC user that wants to try and stump me leave it in the comments.  And dont try to be funny and list games…thats what boot camp is for.

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4 Comments so far
  1. Peter August 14, 2007 4:59 am

    I was under the impression that Stuffit had been abandoned by Apple with the introduction of Tiger : the Create Archive contextual menu option creates a .zip file and simply double-clicking .zip files take care of decompression without any help from Stuffit …

  2. Scott August 15, 2007 9:54 pm

    Ive had stuffit installed for so long and use it as the default. I know tiger can handle zip files but can it handle .sit files?

  3. Amy April 17, 2008 1:04 pm

    Yeah I prefer StuffIt too. Also, I’m surprised that iChat isn’t listed in the Instant Messaging category given that it is AIM compatible.

  4. Geoserv April 17, 2008 1:53 pm

    STUMBLED!

    Great post, I have always wanted a Mac, but a little pricey for me.

    VOTED for you at:
    http://www.newsdots.com/software/new-mac-users-apps-for-transitioning-from-pc-to-mac/