I’ve been a Mac user for many years now and a business owner for just as many. I’ve needed apps for everything from invoicing and time tracking to contact and money management. I’ve used literally hundreds of applications over the past few years and know how frustrating it can be to find something that works for you.

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If you are into a lot of different projects,organizations, or any other time when you have to juggle many different things at once then the app Journler is for you. I thought about doing a podcast on this but the folks a TUAW have beat me to it and done a much better job than I could have. After the Jump check out the 2 Different postings from TUAW on the app. TUAW’s Journler Podcast TUAW’s Journler Update

I was not able to write anything better than the web site states its self. Here is the excerpt from the home page.

RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers (or UTIs; MacOS 10.4 only). MacOS X uses the extension and file type settings to choose the application when opening a file in ...]]>

I was not able to write anything better than the web site states its self. Here is the excerpt from the home page.

RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers (or UTIs; MacOS 10.4 only). MacOS X uses the extension and file type settings to choose the application when opening a file in Finder, while Safari and other applications use the URL and MIME type settings at other times for content not related to a file (such as an unknown URL protocol, or a media stream).

RCDefaultApp also allows setting the application when digital cameras or FireWire webcams such as iSight are connected to the computer. For completeness’ sake, there are also settings that mimic the existing “CDs and DVDs” preference pane, which allows setting the action to take when various types of CDs and DVDs are inserted into the computer.

Finder’s Get Info panel can be used to set the default application for file extensions and file types, but it’s not intuitive. Apple’s Internet preference pane in MacOS X 10.0 through 10.2 (Jaguar) allowed you to set the Web and Email applications, but no other URL handlers. In MacOS X 10.3 (Panther), these settings have moved to Safari’s and Mail’s preferences — meaning you have to run those applications if you want to choose to not use them. Similarly, the digital camera preference is located in Image Capture’s preferences, and the webcam preference is a checkbox in iChat’s preferences. RCDefaultApp allows the setting of all of this information, and ties everything together in one preference pane.

RCDefaultApp also allows entries to be disabled, such as URL schemes that have security issues

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Internet blogger and x-Microsoft employee Robert Scoble has bought and changed over to the Macbook Pro. As part of his switch he asked his over 2,000 twitter followers to suggest some must have mac applications. Follow the link to his blog Scobleizer.com for the full list and comments. Below is a short excerpt form his posting.

@kirkmarple says “Vista.” Heh, already got it loaded. With both BootCamp and Parallels. @rpechler says “start with iUseThis.” @davewiner says “audio recorder, brain dead simple MP3 recorder ...]]>

Internet blogger and x-Microsoft employee Robert Scoble has bought and changed over to the Macbook Pro. As part of his switch he asked his over 2,000 twitter followers to suggest some must have mac applications. Follow the link to his blog Scobleizer.com for the full list and comments. Below is a short excerpt form his posting.

@kirkmarple says “Vista.” Heh, already got it loaded. With both BootCamp and Parallels.
@rpechler says “start with iUseThis.”
@davewiner says “audio recorder, brain dead simple MP3 recorder and azureus, bittorrent client”
@endacrowley says “transmit by panic software for ftping, aperture for more advanced photography, adium for chat and twitteriffic for Twitter).”
@cbee says “Transmit, Onyx, iClip, WhatSize, DeskTopple, Typeit4me.”
@CamonZ says “optimized binary of firefox for Mac.”
@MHJohnston says “Quicksilver.”
@FANLESS says “icecoffee, menumeters, copypaste & Growl, all found via http://www.macupdate.com.”
@davewiner says “graphicconverterpro – paint program.”
@matthendry says “Triple Boot via BootCamp.”
@DonMacAskill says “AdiumX, NeoOffice, Yojimbo, Spanning Sync, Missing Sync (if you use a SmartPhone or Windows Mobile), iTerm, Twitterrific.
@johncruz says “You better get twitterrific.”
@pierre says “LaunchBar is a must if you prefer keyboard to mouse.”
@derrickpeters says “‘tickr‘ for flickr.” (now replaced by Slide).
@cbee says “Amadeus and/or Audacity, Wiretap Pro, Flip4Mac, File Juicer, Pipette.”
@autodidactus says “Where do we start, Scoble? Twitterific, VLC, WireTap Pro, Transmit, Adium.”
@autodidactus says “I’ve found myself quite hooked on Monocle lately.”
@lightandshadow says “Letterbox, plugin for Mail.app.”
@joshowens says “perian.org — a nice codec pack for all those lovely bittorrent TV shows, etc.
@edwardsterkin says “seismac.”
@tuz says “Appzapper for uninstalling, Colloquy for IRC if you do that, NetNewsWire for free reading, write room for uninterrupted writing.”
@edwardsterkin says “VoiceCandy.”
@R2C13 says “I like pathfinder.”
@edwardsterkin says “ChatFX.”
@parislemon says “Definitely have to check out delicious library to organize your media: http://www.delicious-monster.com/“
@kevinrailsback says “Synergy.”
@tuz says “Disco for a light weight burner, Paparazzi for screenshotting entire Web pages to jpeg or pdf, transmission for torrents.”
@bigwebguy says “virtuedesktops (at least until leopard spaces).”
@kevinrailsback says “Desktopple (hides all the icons/files on your desktop for a clean look).”
@MHJohnston says “Growl is also a good bet for notifications– ties into a lot of apps.”
@rpechler says “my ‘must have’ Mac apps.”
@derrickpeters says “Sailing Clicker turns phone into remote for computer and a second vote for Growl.”
@jaseone says “TextMate is the best text editor out there.”

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Every New Mac User should be ready to try some new applications to make life easier. Quicksilver is where you really need to start. On the front end it is a Launcher application. There is yet be be anything to compare on the windows side and it would be an insult to the program to try. As you get into Quicksilver you will see that it can do so so so much more than launch applications. You can add calendar ...]]>

Every New Mac User should be ready to try some new applications to make life easier. Quicksilver is where you really need to start. On the front end it is a Launcher application. There is yet be be anything to compare on the windows side and it would be an insult to the program to try. As you get into Quicksilver you will see that it can do so so so much more than launch applications. You can add calendar events, todo’s, and many many more things. Over at the lifehacker blog today Adam has put together a great set of videos to show you how to get into the Quicksilver life style.

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