I think Aayush has to talk for himself!
First of all, I should clarify that I
was talking for myself.
Firefox -- the best browser
In your opinion, yes.
VLC player -- dunno if quicktime is better, but I like VLC.
QuickTime Player is definitely better once you've installed Microsoft Windows Media QuickTime Components and Perian. I've yet to come across a single file that does not play in QuickTime Player with these two codecs installed.
Advantages over VLC:
1. Apple application, present by default;
2. Much better user interface (put two fingers on the trackpad and scroll up/down to scrub around and left/right to control the volume);
3. Works very well with the Apple remote;
4. Does not crash;
5. Very responsive and quick; and
6. Has a very cool "fit-to-screen" view (⌘4).
Azureus -- uTorrent is best but Azureus is better than Transmission.
For you, a power user, yes.
For me, goobimama and most of the other average Joes, not so much.
Though I would agree with you guys, sometimes the free ones are a little better than even the paid ones...
Sometimes freewares/OSS might be better than paid softwares.
"Sometimes". That's the keyword here. I did not define any absolutes. I listed them in an order of preference. If you have two applications that do the same thing, you should prefer the paid one over the one that is free. Of course, the free might be better in some cases but in my experience so far, when a developer offers the best among the crowd, he wants to make some money for the extra effort.
There are a lot of Mac users who use Firefox, maybe more than Safari users.
That's a completely misguided statistic. C'mon! How could you even think that? You really think that Firefox is popular enough to beat the Apple designed, default browser among a community of the Apple faithful? And that too, when Safari is actually a good browser, the fastest among the lot with the best user interface and all the essential features one actually uses while browsing the Internet.
I use the best app who suits me and where I'm confortable. Don't really care if it's Open source, open source or free. But you can't tell: "Never use cross-platform software unless absolutely necessary"....
Of course, one does not really appreciate the value of a standard product until he/she has been burned by the inferior one. You'll be burned by cross platform applications on Mac OS X too. Wait and watch.
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Anyway, let us not talk about stuff that we have the whole year to chat about. For now, come to the Macworld mood. Woooooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooo! It's Macworld in two days, baby!
Here are a lot of pictures. Use the translation widget to convert from Italian to English if you want to make sense of the captions. Enjoy!
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I would also like to publicly thank and applaud Milind for being a good guy. I'd just casually mentioned to him that I can't use a countdown widget for the Macworld Expo because third party widgets are not working in Dashboard on my Mac. Web clips were working, however, so I made a widget from the countdown displayed on Digg's homepage. But it would take about a minute to refresh every time I loaded Dashboard because it refreshed the whole Digg page in the background.
I'd just mentioned it and forgotten all about it. I hadn't asked for help or anything. But Milind actually went to the trouble of designing an HTML webpage for me with a Macworld countdown (not just a rough job either but an actual design) that I'm now using as a webclip and is working like a charm. I don't know how difficult it was to do (doesn't seem like much) but it is the thought that counts. Three cheers for you, pal!
its only showing me my os x partition