Comments on: Top 5 free apps that should come pre-installed on your Mac http://www.imacusers.com/top-5-apps-that-should-come-pre-installed-on-your-mac/ Indian Mac Users Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:05:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Schmo http://www.imacusers.com/top-5-apps-that-should-come-pre-installed-on-your-mac/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Schmo Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:24:19 +0000 http://www.imacusers.com/?p=11#comment-43 Growl and QuickSilver I can see, however the other ones are off the mark on a few key things:<br>1. QuickTime doesn't just play QuickTime. QuickTime has a variety of plugins available for it and if you get Perian, you don't need VLC for anything other than advanced video playback features (which I use it for).<br>2. No end user needs to know their system stats like that. Only users who think knowing that shit at every minute of every day is important do. In reality, you've got a program taking up resources doing absolutely NOTHING of value. If you need to know what's going on with your system, open spotlight, type in "act" and run Activity Monitor. It's right frickin' there.<br>3. RCDefaultApp is good, I agree; however, your example with the iPhone is rather lame. iPhoto has an option in preferences to not open when a camera is connected. Use it. Growl and QuickSilver I can see, however the other ones are off the mark on a few key things:
1. QuickTime doesn't just play QuickTime. QuickTime has a variety of plugins available for it and if you get Perian, you don't need VLC for anything other than advanced video playback features (which I use it for).
2. No end user needs to know their system stats like that. Only users who think knowing that shit at every minute of every day is important do. In reality, you've got a program taking up resources doing absolutely NOTHING of value. If you need to know what's going on with your system, open spotlight, type in “act” and run Activity Monitor. It's right frickin' there.
3. RCDefaultApp is good, I agree; however, your example with the iPhone is rather lame. iPhoto has an option in preferences to not open when a camera is connected. Use it.

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