Your Favorite Apps for Macbook Pro?

[Andrej]

Transmit is cool but I can't figure out how to save my connections instead of having to type in the password again all the time so I installed Filezilla.

I am not sure how you could miss this. NOTE: Once you add a connection as favorite, the password is saved.

 

[DRE]

• MaxMenus - http://maxmenus.net/

I keep thinking MaxMenus is going to break some OS update, and the company's website that made it isn't even around any more. BUT... it amazingly still works perfectly and when it finally breaks I don't know what I'll do. Basically what it does is add menus that you can define if you click in the corner of your screen (that's what the green thing is in the screenshot... which BTW took 1 second to take a screenshot of part of the screen to clipboard with Snapz Pro X, and another 1 second to upload the image from my clipboard with CloudApp (Option + Command + C to copy to the cloud).

Xmenu seems like a good alternative: http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware.html

XMenu
XMenu adds one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar. They give you access to your preferred applications, folders, documents, files, and text snippets. Launch any application with a single menu choice or insert text snippets into your documents. XMenu is a real app, no hack, no extension. And it's free.

 

[Arantor]

Me, I use WinSCP, but then I have a standing installation of CrossOver handy on my Mac too

 

[MarkWillson]

Safari

 

[Fred Sherman]

I would recommend trying Windows 8. It's not all bad.

I use it on my laptop at home. It's not terrible. It's just not great. I'd say it is no worse or no better than Windows 7.

A ringing endorsement.

Mac OSx... better GUI than Windows and all the power of Unix at the command line. No comparison.

 

[RickM]

From a UX perspective Windows is, and always has been terrible - Apple has always kept the UI pretty consistent, and the UX is fairly intelligently done. Things as simple as button positioning to alert sounds are a LOT better thought out on OS X.