Geeky nano

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Here a couple of pictures from the opening of the first Best Buy store in Puerto Rico.

More picture on the Flickr gallery. click here.

A couple of month ago, about 5 months ago now, I switch from Windows to Mac, one of the things I think Mac users do is that they don’t have a problem spending money to buy Mac apps, since the Mac developers are so willing to support the users and the apps them self are some cheap in a good way.

I think for me it all started when I formated my jail broken iPod Touch, and bought the Apple Apps from iTunes, that day I went legit. Since that day I began starting buying more Mac apps, and Mac apps I use the most, also I started paying for web apps I use a lot, like Flickr.

For example a list of Mac apps a bought is Mailplane, I love Mailplane because I have like six Gmail accounts and the Firefox Gmail Manager was just not cutting it. AppZapper, I have no idea why Apple didn’t think of this, this app is awesome, it does exactly what It says.I bought MarsEdit and Ecto, because of Leo Laporte of TWIT recommended this app on his MacBreak Weekly Podcast. This two apps are for blogging I got MarsEdit first, but I switch to Ecto once I got it because I feel it had more features. I also bought OnTheJob because of Scott Bourne recommended this app on the MacBreak Weekly Podcast also. This app is a time tracker and invoiceing, I plan to start my own Computer Consulting business and I feel this app did the job for a small business.

After that I bought more apps to feel more needs, I got 1Password to manage, my site passwords and apps licenses. I got Business Card Composer to created good looking business cards for my small business. ForkLift to manage files from my MacMini to my MacBook. I bought iShowU to make how to video tutorials for my business. I bought Snak because I love IRC, and I need to get my IRC fix from time to time. I bought Notebook and Disco, Notebook to talk notes at my classes, and Disco to burn data files mainly. I also got CheckUp, BlogAssist, Cha-Ching, and CuteClips, utilize that have a specific end and do there job right. CheckUp lets me know own my Mac is running, BlogAssist help me out with little most use HTML snippets, Cha-Ching for managing my Finances, and CuteClips to manage my clipboard, I use copy and past a lot, who doesn’t ?

The last couple of apps I got where TextMate, Coda, Transmit and Sandvox, mainly becuase I want to get back on my web page creating days. I have lots to learn since back when I did my first web site I use HTML, now days more web sites are writing in PHP so I’m reading to get caught up. TextMate is just a basic Text Editor for writing with Ruby On Rails, Coda is a fully feature coding environment. I love it is full of content and a very user friendly user interface. Transmit is an FTP client, and Sandvox is a fully feature web creating and management app, I absolutely love, I can’t wait to get my dreamhost account and domain, so I can put by web site up.

If you have any comment or question, or if you want me to give you a full feature review of any app I may have got, feel free to leave a comment on the blog.

So I readed and readed tons of top list of must have Mac apps for new Mac owner (switcher) and I decided to post my own, here i go.

AppZapper @ AppZapper.com for ($12.95) – The uninstaller Apple forgot.

Adium X @ AdiumX.com for (Free) – Think Trillian or should I say Pidgin for the Mac, awesome.

Quicksilver @ BlackTree.com for (Free) – Think Launchy for the Mac but with way more better features.

Mozilla Firefox @ Mozilla.com for (Free) -The problems are not Safari or even Camino, the problems are the plugging they are missing.

Skype @ Skype.com for (Free) – I mean come where are talking about VoIP, the king of kings.

Colloquy @ Colloquy.info for (Free) – the best free IRC client for Mac out there.

Twitterrific @ IconFactory.com for (Free) – If your on Twitter like me, this is a must have app.

NetNewsWire @ NewsGator.com for (Free) – Best free RSS/Feed reader for the Mac out there.

Transmission @ TransmissionBT.com f0r (Free) – Some people like Azureus others like Torrent Tomato, I like Transmission, a Bit Torrent client.

Cyberduck @ Cyberduck.ch for (Free) – The best free FTP client for the Mac.

Growl @ Growl.info for (Free) – An events notifications utility for the Mac.

Skitch @ Skitch.com for (Free) – Mainly a screen capturing utility for the Mac.

MainMenu @ SantaSW.com for (Free) – Think CCleaner for the Mac.

Flip4Mac @ Microsoft.com for (Free) – Very important support for WMV/WMA files and streaming content (I need this to listen to Leo Laporte’s show The Tech Guy on the weekends of KFI).

VLC media player @ VideoLAN.org for (Free) – Forget Windows Media Player, forget downloading all of the video codec’s, here’s your quick fix.

Well thats it I hope I have covered all the bases, if anything is missing please feel free to post on the comments, any suggestions, recommendations are welcome, I hope you enjoy my top 15 must have Mac apps, I also hope this list may become useful for all does new Mac switchers like me.

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Well talking about Ashley Tisdale, let me show off my new Apple iPod Touch theme, pretty nice, transparent icons, and a wallpaper with a picture of my dream girl Ashley Tisdale, from the “He Said, She Said” music video photo shoot.

Here a couple of screen shots of my Jailbreaked Apple iPod Touch:

Main Screen

Facebook

Twitter

Maps (San Juan, P.R.)

Weather

Stocks (Google and Apple are the most important one, I also added it CNET)

NES Emulator (so cool)

NOTE: As of today changed my iTouch to a transparent looking one with a picture of Ashley Tisdale (duh) as the wallpaper, hope to bring screen shots soon.

First off happy late Christmas and a happy New Year, I’ve been pretty busy, mostly because of work related stuff, Evertec Inc. is a information system and finance management company and this holiday season was a very busy one for the financial world.

I’m so excited to say that once I got my MacMini, a couple of weeks later I got myself a Apple iPod Touch, if anyone has seen my Flickr account you may have seen some of my new Jailbreak Apple iPod Touch, this was my Christmas gift from me to me, also side the MacMini which I also bought. I also got for myself to add to my Ashley Tisdale collection the new “High School Musical 2” DVD, I already seen the freaking DVD about 5 times tops,  and I can stop. My aunt bought me the “Agile Web Developing on Rails” book , which I can wait to start reading and experimenting with it. Also my good friend Ed got me back into World Of Warcraft, he got me the video game for the Mac, which I haven’t had the time to install yet.

Something tells me this year promises to be a very exciting one, one tons of challenges ahead, big future projects and big changes that are bound to happen in my life. I have my head focus on many project that I am very excited to start, and now that I finally got a new Mac I want to get back to my Video editing days, hoping to put a audio/video Podcast together with a couple of friends of mine.

I can’t wait till I finally start my Masters degree in Finance and I hope to keep moving up the working ladder, I love my job at Evertec, save enough money to buy myself a domain and hosting, built my own website hopefully using the skill I learn using the Ruby book and many many other project that I’m totally focus on.

With Wakoopa, you can see what apps I have been using, here’s a screen shot of my Wakoopa profile.

 Desktop screen

Spaces, awesome.

So I got myself a new MacMini, since CompUSA is closing and giving out deals on all of there products in stock I got my Leopard ready MacMini cheap, I also got iWorks, since I hate Microsoft.

Features I love, Spaces and Stacks, I love the Apple Remote for Front Row, and iLife 08. I’m still thinking of getting a .Mac account.

Tech specs, 1 gig of ram, intel core 2 duo, 80 gig hard drive.