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The best thing I ever did was switch from PC to Mac OSX which seems like eons ago now…   Since then, many other friends and relatives have also switched and have asked me for a list of my favourite free (or low cost) "tools" or "apps" for the Mac that will make their lives easier… This is what I've come up with so far (in no particular order)... RoaringApps Not an App but an extremely useful website wiki to check compatibility for Mac OSX Lion and now iOS 5.  Exceeding useful if you're thinking of upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion Dropbox Everyone knows Dropbox for their amazing file-sharing service. Drag any file into the Dropbox folder and it automatically gets shared. Sign up for a free account and you automatically get 2GB to share with your friends. Set up shared folders and anything you drop will be instantly downloaded by others. Need mobile access to your files? There’s an iPhone app just for that. Th...

What a great day indeed… SnagIt is available on the Mac (beta)… I was alerted to this exciting piece of information via Twitter Tweets from both mrcadman & binrock and Shaan's blog "Between the Lines" OK I'm off to download and install SnagIt - what a great day indeed :)

Snow Leopard has just been delivered by TNT Air Express... work will have to wait a bit longer today... :)

Yes I know Mac have an inbuilt screen capture utility but I have really missed SnagIt since going to a Mac based system but good news it at hand... happy days are here again :) Snagit for Mac is Coming!

Well the wait is almost over with only a few days until Snow Leopard starts to ship on August 28, 2009.

Somewhat old news now but new to me... I stumbled on this whilst searching the Autodesk site... A utodesk announced in late July that AutoCAD, Revit platform products, Inventor and 3ds Max will now be supported on Windows XP & Vista running under Bootcamp on Apple Macs. This is great news, especially for customers including myself who have been running this environment for some time without official support (one proviso is English Language products only). You can view the applicable products at the link above :)

Well I never thought that this day would happen but I've succumbed to the dark-side and joined the legions of happy mac users... yep... I've traded in my troublesome windows based PC and moved to a happier place using my Mac Pro/Macbook Pro. Thanks to green compatriots, Chris Reardon and Dick Clarke for showing me the way...