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veen  ·  3365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Microsoft Word or Pages?

Powerful? Word, by a mile. I like Pages better for notes: its note taking template is very straightforward and automatically changes bullet points depending on how indented you are. 90% of all my notes are in Pages now.

If you ever cooperate with others on anything you write (and you will), it's always Word + track changes. Maaybe GDocs if there are more Mac users / people that are good with computers.

Also some of my must-have apps: Quicksilver, Caffeine (for keeping your screen on), iStat Menus, The Unarchiver for anything that isn't zip and Colloquy for IRC.





Cumol  ·  3352 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would replace Quicksilver with Alfred Powerpack. I would not touch a Mac without it

veen  ·  3352 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm a bit torn. Quicksilver is more customizable and can do much more, Alfred is simpler and is better at guessing what file I want.

Cumol  ·  3351 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Alfred as a basic is not worth it. But the powerpack is