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Apple has told Macworld UK that there are now over 2000 applications on its Universal Applications guide (there were 2,006 as of last night). More and more developers are making the leap to Universal applications and that makes Intel Mac users (like myself) a happy lot.Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.
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Peter Kirn said 8:08PM on 5-31-2006
Max/MSP/Jitter, baby! Seriously, I saw the deep interactive toolkit running on Intel Macs at NAMM, and it's going to unleash a whole lot of fabulous new sound, video, and 3D graphics when it comes out.
I'm also desperate for Flash, because it should also run really nicely on Intel Macs. But we probably don't want to get started on Adobe.
In the music market, while a lot of big apps are out (see Pro Tools LE, as of today, on top of Reason, Logic, and Live), plug-ins are still slow in coming. Native Instruments Reaktor tops my list.
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Brian said 8:24PM on 5-31-2006
I would love to see URLwell be updated...but it doesn't seem to exist anymore.
http://www.freemacblog.com/what-happened-to-urlwell/
On a side note, I updated my MBP to 2GB of RAM and Photoshop is actually useable now. I can't wait to see if they'll release CS3 to take full advantage of the duo core structure. No cutting corners Adobe.
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kevin said 8:26PM on 5-31-2006
photoshop and office - the two reasons i will not be buying an intel mac until these come out as universal binaries. the third reason being leopard.
thanks for the tip on live, peter.
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Joshua said 8:28PM on 5-31-2006
Seconded on URLWell. My poor desktop is littered with .weblocs right now.
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SA said 8:29PM on 5-31-2006
MATLAB!! I wanna see this shit happen soon, mathworks!!
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Jon H said 8:42PM on 5-31-2006
Dark Castle
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justin said 8:49PM on 5-31-2006
Bits on Wheels! Come on!!!!!
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Brendan Gray said 8:57PM on 5-31-2006
Vectorworks (CAD software). It's keeping us from upgrading our main machines at my small business.
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Kim Gammelgrd said 8:58PM on 5-31-2006
Windows media Player/Flip4Mac. Long overdue!
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Matt said 9:03PM on 5-31-2006
flip4wmv
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J said 9:07PM on 5-31-2006
I'm dying for:
- Transparent Dock (Free Range Mac)
(I know APE just came out today)
- Flip4Mac (so I can play those damn WMV files again)
- VolumeLogic (because I paid for it... then I got an Intel iMac)
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Bridget Samuels said 9:10PM on 5-31-2006
The wait for Photoshop made a Gimp user out of me! Aside from Office, I'm really looking forward to Dreamweaver. It was never quick to begin with, and it's pretty nasty in Rosetta. I've switched to Rapidweaver for my personal website, but for some that I maintain, I have to use something more flexible. I'm also dying without plug-ins for Firefox, namely Flip4Mac and the PDF reader!
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Alec said 9:12PM on 5-31-2006
Ecto. Its coming but cant get here soon enough
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David said 9:30PM on 5-31-2006
windowshade X from unsanity...I know its in beta now, so hopefully soon...I've loved this feature of OS since the old days, just can't get used to Minimize (seems to window-sy maybe)
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Thrasher said 9:31PM on 5-31-2006
MATLAB is the big one for me. Adobe/Macromedia apps are also important, but at least they run in Rosetta.
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Dan Ridley said 9:32PM on 5-31-2006
Studiometry. (I guess REALBasic developers can't do Universal applications yet.)
Rosetta's speed is utterly horrendous on a Solo Mini. It seems quite usable on the dual-core machines I've played with, just not on the one I could afford :-)
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Ken69267 said 9:34PM on 5-31-2006
pssst you spelled Universal wrong in the title.
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Patrick Haney said 9:51PM on 5-31-2006
Two applications come to mind (besides the Macrodobe pro apps), and both are pretty useless until they are made Universal.
The first is Connoisseur, a recipe/cooking application similar to iTunes in functionality that is pretty slow in Rosetta. The other is Unsanity's Mighty Mouse, which allows you to change your Mac cursors (is there no other application that allows you to do this?). Mighty Mouse is not able to run on Intel Macs at all, which saddens me.
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Ben Drawbaugh said 10:16PM on 5-31-2006
Citrix ICA client and MS Remote desktop connection.
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Troy McClure SF said 10:23PM on 5-31-2006
Flip4Mac. Before I discovered it, I wouldn't even bother with .wmv files, even when I could install WMP.
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