Mac Woes
May 29th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized
I'm trying out a beautiful, new MacBook (black) - thin, lightweight, nice screen. It's frustrating, however, that I can't use many of my favourites applications such as FeedDemon, Google Talk and Roboform.
May 29th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Mark…..I use iChat as my google talk client….works great…configuration is here:
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24076
May 29th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
There is NetNewsWire for RSS feeds.
Adium for MSN, Jabber (Google Talk), ICQ, AIM, etc. etc. IM'ing
There's a few things for Roboform, but I haven't tested them out much. Blog if you find something of similar functionality that works out for you.
May 29th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Was going to echo exactly the above. NetNewsWire is my favourite RSS feed right now, and googletalk seems to work fine on my mac. There's a few Firefox and Safari plug-ins for Roboform too.
May 29th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
I got my Black Book also (Om will be jealous I suspect) but when did Google Talk come out as an App, or are you saying in the browser?
Andy
May 29th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
You'll want NetNewsWire for feeds (though there are free ones that are just as good), Adium for chat (it does GoogleTalk and everything else), and Keychain (standard on Macs) will handle the Roboform tasks just fine.
May 29th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
You'll also find that Camino runs much better that Firefox. At least pre-Firefox 2.0 anyway. I can also recommend some other stuff you might like to have if need be.
May 30th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Ben and Larry identify the key candidates Adium, NetNewsWire and Camino for a better faster experince. Don't forget to check out Quicksilver and TextWrangler. There are a few lists of must have apps: 10 apps every new mac user should downloadBrad Choate's OS X software inventory no guarrantee that these apps are Universal Binaries
May 30th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
You're kidding right? Why would you expect them to work? It is a different OS. Would you expect your win32 apps to run under linux?
To me this is like saying “I picked up a betamax tape at a yard sale, and I'm upset since it won't play in my VHS player”.
June 3rd, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Mark,
Regarding RoboForm — we just released an updated version of 1Passwd (http://1passwd.com). This version is integrated with Safari and Firefox and it can import roboform passcards.