Mac Woes

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    Posted May 29, 2006 at 11:21 am | Permalink

    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

  2. Anonymous
    Posted May 29, 2006 at 12:26 pm | Permalink

    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.

  3. bsharwood
    Posted May 29, 2006 at 1:04 pm | Permalink

    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.

  4. Andy Abramson
    Posted May 29, 2006 at 2:44 pm | Permalink

    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

  5. Larry Borsato
    Posted May 29, 2006 at 4:21 pm | Permalink

    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.

  6. Larry Borsato
    Posted May 29, 2006 at 4:22 pm | Permalink

    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.

  7. Anonymous
    Posted May 30, 2006 at 12:09 pm | Permalink

    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

  8. Anonymous
    Posted May 30, 2006 at 2:29 pm | Permalink

    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”.

  9. Anonymous
    Posted June 3, 2006 at 10:43 pm | Permalink

    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.

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