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Well, I am officially starting a trend, every month, I will put out a new edition of “My Top 10 ‘Hard to live without’ apps”. These will be apps for the Mac I cannot ever live without. Let’s see… 

1.) Safari (OSX 10.2+)-I could not live without this app, I do all of my web browsing in it! And, it’s easy to use, fast, and for the most part, supports many standards.

2.) Adium (OSX 10.4; older versions for 10.2-10.3)-I do all of my instant messaging through this app, and it can be configured easily and without hassles.

3.) Word 5.1 (System 6+; runs in Classic)-Yes, I do use this app for all of my word processing demands 99.999% of the time, for the .001%, I use NeoOffice for compatibility.

4.) Colloquy (OSX 10.3.9+; older versions for 10.2)-I do all of my IRC in this app, not much more to say.

5.) Apple Mail (OSX 10.4; also bundled with 10.0-10.3, albeit older versions)-I do all of my email in this app, so yeah.

6.)  iTunes (OSX 10.3.9+; older versions for 8.6/9-10.2)-Music/iPod, not much to say.

7.) QuickTime (OSX 10.3.9+; older versions for 6.0.0-10.2)-I do my TV show watching here.

8.) Perian 1.0 (OSX 10.4+; older betas for 10.3)-Without this, I’d shoot myself, literally, Perian is so useful.

9.) AppTrap (OSX xyz; I don’t know what version is needed, sorry)-Say you want to uninstall an app, with AppTrap, just drag the .app to the trash and pops up a screen asking if you want to delete the support files. Very useful app!

10.) Finder (System 1-10.4)-There’s always that one app that you take for granted, the Finder is one of them. I’d be so lost without it.

Anyway, there’s my list, stay tuned for next month’s!

Also, feel free to comment! 

Well, I had sort of forgotten about Windows 2000, but it is official, Apple has dropped Windows 2000 support in iTunes 7.4.x. iTunes 7.4.x requires Windows XP SP2 or Vista. iTunes was Windows 2000’s last breath from Apple, as QuickTime recently dropped Windows 2000 support in July, with the release of 7.2. Just an FYI, the last releases for Windows 2000 are iTunes 7.3.2 and QuickTime 7.1.6.

Download it here.

The recent update to iTunes, 7.4.1, has been reported to block some third party iPhone ringtones that were hacked for use with the iPhone in previous releases, to circumvent Apple’s 2$usd pricing on ringtones. It is starting to become evident, in my opinion, that this will turn into a mini-cat and mouse game, between Apple and the ‘homebrew’ ringtones.

More information can be found here.

iTunes 7.4.1 was released tonight, an apparent bug-fix release, though Apple has not provided an official list of changes yet.

You can download it as always from here.

iTunes 7.4.1 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or 10.4.7 for iTunes; 10.4.8 for iPod shuffle (late 2007), iPod nano (late 2007), iPod classic; 10.4.10 for the iPhone and iPod touch.

I thought this was very interesting, and creating by one of our own writers here at Mac.LTL, Kevin. While this may be old (or new, I don’t know), I just found it, and was amazed. Hmm, I wonder if I could figure that out on my own…….
*gives up*

Anyway, kudos to Kevin, that is amazing!

Note that none of the new iPod models released yesterday support Mac OS X 10.3 “Panther”, even the new shuffle, though I don’t see why it would not be unofficially supported, as the new update is just cosmetic changes.Just an FYI to all you Panther users..

After a slight delay, iTunes 7.4 was released early this morning.

The official improvements are:

“With iTunes 7.4, sync your favorite music and more with the new iPod nano (third generation), iPod classic, and iPod touch, plus create custom ringtones exclusively for iPhone with many of your favorite songs purchased from the iTunes Store. You can now also play purchased videos with closed captioning (when available), easily rate your favorite albums from one to five stars, and watch videos at a larger size inside the iTunes window.”

Download here

A few weeks ago, I posted about wanting to downgrade to Panther ‘10.3′ on my G3 Blue and White PowerMac, however, I’ve since changed my mind for the following reasons: 

1.) There are many Tiger only apps out there, mainly Bean, Adium (though previous versions support 10.2 and 10.3), etc. I also suspect that Panther will be dropped for the most part in apps shortly after Leopard’s release. 

2.) Security-Panther will likely be discontinued in terms of security updates prior to Leopard’s release. This would follow Apple previously supporting a maximum of two versions of OSX at a time (in security updates). 

3.) Tiger is likely the last release of OSX that officially supports the G3 processor, and thus, having the last release would be beneficial. 

4.) WebKit-While many use non-WebKit based browsers (i.e. Shiira, Safari, etc.), Tiger has a newer version of WebKit than Panther. 

So, those are my reasons for staying with Tiger.. 

While I don’t care for Office:mac, or Microsoft in general, I thought this would be interesting for you Office:mac users/lovers. 

Sneak-peak kick off

OOF coming to Entourage