>>>Mike Cane: I don’t find my Macs any more or less fun than my Windows computers.

Dave, same here. But we post here and read sites like this. The people I mean do not do that.

I have a macbook and when not hooked up to my external 24″ display I use Virtue Desktop to manage my screens. When the next version of OS X ships it will have ‘Spaces’ which should do the same thing but for now Virtue is great.

I really don’t have a ‘killer’ app, but there are so many that just seem to work for me.

I really really like OmniGraffle as a Visio replacment, it works so much better than Visio (for me at least) and is affordable.

I also just found GroupCal which allows me to sync to my work Exchange server for calendar events even when I’m not VPN’d in.

– QuickSilver – yeah, I can’t imagine how I went without it. That said I also have Drag Thing for stuff that I don’t use QS for.

OK OK , Im convinced, After a horrendous evening with my pc operating xp, Ive just been online and converted to a refurb Mac pro……I feel so relieved.
oooooh can’t wait

Kevin – another vote for QuickSilver and a new recommendation for PathFinder – a killer Finder alternative that offers a tabbed UI and an astonishingly long list of really productive features. I also really like Yojimbo – a great “junk drawer” app for info capture I use in many of the same ways as I do OneNote on the Tablet PC.

Apart from stating the obvious (OS X is the killer app), for my compulsive web article reading habits, the killer app is Tofu:

http://amarsagoo.info/tofu/index.shtml

A very simple full-screen text viewer which sets desired text in a clean distraction-free column view, with custom font and background colours. There’s a “View in Tofu” system-wide service as well, so any text can be viewed in Tofu without prior saving, by simply selecting the text (in Safari, for instance) and invoking the service.

Oh, Tofu is free, by the way.

Another great set of system-wide services is Devon Technologies WordServices, free as well:

http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/index.html (scroll down)

They add a large set of very useful text-formatting, conversion and insertion functionalities which work in any application’s text field.

My 0 cents (for freeware)

Obviously the KILLER app is OS-X. After all no matter what your doing it provides absolute security and peace of mind. It isn’t always crawling up your ass or hitting you over the head with inane alerts and nonsensical dialog boxes.

Not good enough then throw in iLife after you become accustomed to getting rid of the retard that constantly harasses you in Windoze and become accustomed to real computing you find all this time to do fun stuff instead of Virus removal on your weekends.

I think ThoughtFix hit it right on the nail: the killer app is OS X, or more precisely that it is a BSD. In my job the unix command line with all its associated tools is the bread and butter, which is the reason why I changed to a Mac – the alternative was to run Windows AND either FreeBSD or Linux.

Killer app for the Mac?

Windows, without a doubt.

I cannot use Windows for more than a few minutes without finding myself screaming in rage and frustration. For me a Mac is the difference between being a happy camper and not haveing a computer.

itunes! o wait…

iPhoto is probably the Killer, aside from the OS it’s self. Mail App and such do not qualify because email and web surfing are part and parcel of all platforms. The iLife apps are what sets OSX apart and iPhoto is the most widely used of the ilife applications.

Is there a OneNote equivalent for mac?

Killer App for the Mac? For me it’s definitely DocumentWallet. It’s like an iPhoto for PDFs, making the paperless office effortless.

Omniweb. The best web browser I have ever used.

Don’t know about the Mac, don’t have one, maybe some day if the need arises.

For Vista, actually Windows XP as well, Windows Media Center is the killer app. The reason being is that is so functional (though we need CableCard!), and just far superior to a set top box, and it comes with the OS out of the box. When people start using it for real, they get hooked.

Why, Firefox, of course!

“But,” you say, “Firefox is available on Windows and Linux, too!”

That’s my point. I practically live in Firefox. The more of my life I can make web accessible (blogging/email/calendar/photos/video/feeds/IM/etc.), the better. And the fact that I can run Firefox on a Mac just as easily as I can on Windows makes it almost transparent to me which platform I’m on. It really doesn’t matter – I can do 95% of what I want to do without caring which OS I’m running. And that’s a wonderful, liberating feeling.

Oh, and Parallels, too.

When I read the title before reading the text, quicksilver immediately popped into mind. You can navigate so fast, do everything with the keyboard, find anything quickly. It’s amazing.

As far as browsers: omniweb. hands down. it sucks having to pay for a browser, but it’s sooooo fast and so good. check out the speed comparisons here: http://macintalk.com/2006/07/11/fourth-mac-os-x-browser-test/

Look at their speed comparison chart (2nd graph of the article). wow. it shows in actual use, as well.

-arebelspy