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I will be really sad to see it go. Perian is one of the first five things I download when I'm on a clean install of OS X. Support has sadly been lagging when it

by SeoxyS 14y ago

I will be really sad to see it go. Perian is one of the first five things I download when I'm on a clean install of OS X. Support has sadly been lagging when it comes to MKV, and for that I still keep VideoLan around; but otherwise I love having full system-wide QuickTime support for all common video formats (AVI).

peter_l_downs 14y ago
What are the other four things?
- pudquick 14y ago
  Well, two of them are probably VLC and The Unarchiver.
  - johnpowell 14y ago
    First thing I install is Little Snitch.
    - sa1f 14y ago
      I find Radio Silence to be cleaner. http://radiosilenceapp.com/ http://radiosilenceapp.com/ Only 9 bucks.
      - Stokestack 14y ago
        Except, from what I can tell, there's no way to have it alert you when applications try to call out. So you have to know in advance which applications you want to block, and specify them manually. Also, if the app you want to block calls out during installation, it's too late.
        Mohnican 14y ago
        Hands Off! Is another great tool.
- SeoxyS 14y ago
  Adium. Quicksilver. Homebrew. Dropbox. Also: Chrome, Xcode, Skitch, Divvy and the basic CLI tools.
  - acangiano 14y ago
    I prefer Alfred over Quicksilver, and Window Magnet instead of Divvy. Just in case someone is interested in alternatives.
  - fusiongyro 14y ago
    It's funny. I used to use Psi, but then I switched to iChat. I used to use Quicksilver, then I switched to Launchbar, and now I just use Spotlight. I have Homebrew, because MacPorts can't install 3.2 of GNU Smalltalk and for no other reason. I haven't installed Dropbox ever, or Skitch (never heard of it, will check it out) or Divvy (I think I downloaded a demo of it once, thought it would be cool, and never went back to buy it). I don't know what my problem is, but I guess my need for new features keeps diminishing. Maybe in forty years I'll finally be able to use Plan 9.
    - sjs 14y ago
      I went from LaunchBar to Quicksilver to Spotlight to LaunchBar. Can't live without that clipboard history! I don't use many of its other features anymore though. Preview annotates things well enough that I never use Skitch, although Skitch is cool if you want to use the sharing features. You might be missing out on Dropbox. I wouldn't want to go without it these days as I use more than one computer regularly and don't have to remember to commit 'WIP' on a branch before I head home, I just drop the mic and get the fuck out. YMMV. Divvy is great. I use it w/ SizeUp every day and wouldn't want to go without them. I don't miss xmonad at all anymore. Other than that I install 1Password, The Unarchiver, Growl, CrashPlan, Flux, TextMate, iTerm, and GitX and I am good to go. I seem to shed tools as OS X improves as well, but I hope that nobody is using plan9 in 40 years! ;-)
      - fusiongyro 14y ago
        Agree on TextMate. Haven't heard of most of the other stuff. I used Xmonad for about six months, then I basically copied the keybindings into an fvwm config, then I switched to KDE, brought over a handful of the keybindings and I seem to be alright. I would probably use Dropbox if I didn't have a VM. A friend has been trying to get me to use one of their competitors for a while. Plan 9 is great, just a bit too much ideology to actually get anything done. I hope it's still maintained in 40 years in case I do go that way. :)

by SeoxyS 14y ago

peter_l_downs 14y ago

What are the other four things?

pudquick 14y ago
Well, two of them are probably VLC and The Unarchiver.
- johnpowell 14y ago
  First thing I install is Little Snitch.
  - sa1f 14y ago
    I find Radio Silence to be cleaner. http://radiosilenceapp.com/ http://radiosilenceapp.com/ Only 9 bucks.
    - Stokestack 14y ago
      Except, from what I can tell, there's no way to have it alert you when applications try to call out. So you have to know in advance which applications you want to block, and specify them manually. Also, if the app you want to block calls out during installation, it's too late.
      - Mohnican 14y ago
        Hands Off! Is another great tool.
SeoxyS 14y ago
Adium. Quicksilver. Homebrew. Dropbox. Also: Chrome, Xcode, Skitch, Divvy and the basic CLI tools.
- acangiano 14y ago
  I prefer Alfred over Quicksilver, and Window Magnet instead of Divvy. Just in case someone is interested in alternatives.
- fusiongyro 14y ago
  It's funny. I used to use Psi, but then I switched to iChat. I used to use Quicksilver, then I switched to Launchbar, and now I just use Spotlight. I have Homebrew, because MacPorts can't install 3.2 of GNU Smalltalk and for no other reason. I haven't installed Dropbox ever, or Skitch (never heard of it, will check it out) or Divvy (I think I downloaded a demo of it once, thought it would be cool, and never went back to buy it). I don't know what my problem is, but I guess my need for new features keeps diminishing. Maybe in forty years I'll finally be able to use Plan 9.
  - sjs 14y ago
    I went from LaunchBar to Quicksilver to Spotlight to LaunchBar. Can't live without that clipboard history! I don't use many of its other features anymore though. Preview annotates things well enough that I never use Skitch, although Skitch is cool if you want to use the sharing features. You might be missing out on Dropbox. I wouldn't want to go without it these days as I use more than one computer regularly and don't have to remember to commit 'WIP' on a branch before I head home, I just drop the mic and get the fuck out. YMMV. Divvy is great. I use it w/ SizeUp every day and wouldn't want to go without them. I don't miss xmonad at all anymore. Other than that I install 1Password, The Unarchiver, Growl, CrashPlan, Flux, TextMate, iTerm, and GitX and I am good to go. I seem to shed tools as OS X improves as well, but I hope that nobody is using plan9 in 40 years! ;-)
    - fusiongyro 14y ago
      Agree on TextMate. Haven't heard of most of the other stuff. I used Xmonad for about six months, then I basically copied the keybindings into an fvwm config, then I switched to KDE, brought over a handful of the keybindings and I seem to be alright. I would probably use Dropbox if I didn't have a VM. A friend has been trying to get me to use one of their competitors for a while. Plan 9 is great, just a bit too much ideology to actually get anything done. I hope it's still maintained in 40 years in case I do go that way. :)