Application | Mac | Windows | Linux | Comments |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | I have been using Firefox before it got it's current name. Together with Mozilla Weave I can run same configuration on any platform it is suported |
Mozilla Thunderbird | Yes | Yes | Yes | I was running email client on Linux for years. It was Evolution before I switched to Thunderbird. |
Adobe Lightroom | Yes | Yes | No | My workhorse of image processing which was done mostly on my Windows laptop. Moving to Mac let me have it on the same machine I got everything else. |
Adobe Photoshop | Yes | Yes | No | I got Elements which does not contain Mac version so there was no way to install in on Mac. I got mac version of CS4. |
FileZilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | I was using FTP mostly on Linux sa that was best choice I could find. Likely it works on Mac. |
Vuze | Yes | Yes | Yes | Maybe KTorrent was lighter bittorrent client but there is no Mac version. |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Swiss army knife of media players that is not perfect but at least cross-platform. Native clients are sometimes better. |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | That was my best player on Linux. I am not very impressed with Mac version but I can convert everything to mov format with ffmpeg. |
OpenOffice | Yes | Yes | Yes | Just to have something for opening Microsoft Office files before Google Docs era. |
Canon Utilities | Yes | Yes | No | Whatever comes with my camera usually got Mac version. |
MPEG Strimclip | Yes | Yes | No | Simple and efficient media converter |
MediaCoder | No | Yes | No | Partially works with Wine |
ffmpeg | Yes | Yes | Yes | Command line tool that can convert anything. |
DeepMeta | Yes | Yes | No | For now there are no signs that iStockphoto would ever support FTP upload like any other microstock agency. |
Garmin GPS software | Yes | Yes | No | Not that I have to use it every day but I might need update software on my GPS device |
Gisteq PhotoTrackr | Yes | Yes | No | GPS logger I am using. There is Mac version of sotware |
Google Earth | Yes | Yes | Yes | Nice thing that runs on 3 platform I have been using. |
Picasa | Yes | Yes | No | May work with Wine |
Photomatix Pro | Yes | Yes | No | Best HDR software |
Noise Ninja | Yes | Yes | No | My choice for noise reduction |
Genuine Fractals | Yes | Yes | No | Since I got 5Dmk2 I do not have a need to upsize images but I bought this software and it got Mac version. |
Turbo Tax | Yes | Yes | No | Read my tax return file generated on Windows. |
Skype | Yes | Yes | Yes | My connection with family on the other side of the globe. |
aMule | Yes | Yes | Yes | So far best eMule clone I have seen. |
sitecopy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Used for uploading images to multiple FTP servers |
K3b | No | No | Yes | I was pretty happy with it so I never looked for free burning software on Windows. Mac Burn does not impress me either. |
Kopete | No | No | Yes | Trillian works great on Windows, Kopete was my choice on Linux. On Mac I got Adium which does not support Gadu Gadu and beta version of Trillian. |
Amarok | No | No | Yes | I can leave with iTunes on both Mac and Windows |
huey Pro | Yes | Yes | No | Monitor color calibration tool for |
.NET | Yes | Yes | Yes | Mono is now supported. |
Visual Studio | No | Yes | No | MonoDevelop for C# development is OK. |
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro | No | Yes | No | As far as simple movie editor is concerned I did not go with Adobe Premiere Elements and I purchased MAGIX product. Now it is not supported on Mac. I need to learn iMovie. |
PtLensEdit | Yes | Yes | No | Great lens correction software. |
python | Yes | Yes | Yes | Nice scripting language |
VirtualBox | Yes | Yes | Yes | If needed I can run Windows or Linux in VM |
Zinio Reader | Yes | Yes | No | Got some magazine subscriptions in this format. Glad they created Mac version of their reader. |
Notepad++ | No | Yes | No | Runs under Wine but there are good replacements on Linux and Mac |
Eclipse | Yes | Yes | Yes | Best Java development IDE. |
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
3 months after the switch
I must admit that I am not missing any software I need and I am really glad to have everything I need on one machine instead of having some stuff done on one and have it copied back and fort to the other one.
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