Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Loading up the new MacBook Pro

Just received a new MacBook Pro and it is lovely. I spent the day installing software. Here is what I loaded the machine with on day 1:
  • Skype - IM
  • Adium - IM
  • FireFox
  • FireFox Extensions - FireBug, Web Developer Toolkit
  • Xwindows Server
  • Emacs - Editor
  • MySQL 5.0
  • MySQL Administrator
  • Eclipse Web Tools Project (with the intel patch)
  • Eclipse Plugin - Subclipse
  • Eclipse Plugin - Azzurri Clay Database Modeling Plug-in
  • Cyber Duck - FTP Client
  • VNC Viewer
  • Subversion Client - Source Control
  • Tomcat - App Server
  • BlogBridge - RSS Reader (I like this more now)
  • StuffIt Expander
  • Windows Media Player
  • Windows Remote Desktop
  • TextMate - Editor
  • MenuMeters - Perf Monitoring
  • SvnX - SVN GUI
  • XcodeTools
  • info.xhead - Keep track of my passwords
  • GIMPShop - Photoshop
  • NeoOffice - Open Source MS Office
  • WebKit and Drosera - Safari Debugging
  • iWork
  • IPSecuritas - VPN
Posted by Sami Shalabi at 9:33 PM

5 comments:

  1. Brian3:08 PM

    didja get the hi-end 17" model with the fast 100G disk?

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  2. Sami Shalabi3:45 PM

    Got the 15.4' with the 100G fast (7200rpm) disk...
    REAL NICE!

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  3. None3:59 PM

    Thanks for the update, hope it works and will be interested to hear your thoughts afrer you have coded on it for a while.

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  4. timmfin8:00 PM

    What no Quicksilver? I've desperately wanted to see if it is good as it looks like it can be.

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  5. Sami Shalabi7:25 AM

    Tim, I'll give it a try...

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