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Greg White, March 2005
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Basics

X11.

As shipped - may be on Developer CD. Excellent configurable interface (see Applications menu after you start X11), I can show you some good setups for accessing machines at slac.

For Tiger OS
From the Tiger Installation DVD, perform the Optional Installation - this will update the X11 version (to 4.4.0). Alternatively, go to the XFree86 Project to get it.
Note: Tiger OS uses a new version of ssh:
(From Booker Bense: )
"NOTE: The -X flag has changed in OpenSSH 3.8 and later, X11 forwarding is performed in a way that applications run as untrusted clients by default.
Some applications may not function properly when run as untrusted clients. To forward X11 so that applications are run as trusted clients, invoke ssh with the -Y flag instead of the -X flag, or set ForwardX11Trusted in the ~/.ssh/config file."

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Adobe Acrobat. May now come as shipped. I had to get it for free from Adobe. Note, Safari can use a plugin called Schubert to display inline PDF (may now be as-shipped), or you can configure it to use the external PDV viewer.

MS Office: (Bookstore)

Word
Powerpoint
Excel
Entourage (Microsoft's Outlook for Mac). I use Entourage for mail rather than Apple Mail, but i have friend who prefer Apple mail. I use Entourage as IMAP client, rather than Exchange, so it works from home seamlessly, but it can do Exchange too.
For lots of Microsoft Mac stuff see http://www.microsoft.com/mac/.

Dreamweaver/Contribute/BBEdit.

(Bookstore)

Stuffit Expander.

May now come as shipped. Otherwise download free from www.stuffit.com. Like winzip but much smoother and better integrated into the downloading system of the browser.

AFS.

Get MacLeland from Stanford http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss/macstanford/macleland/Image Modified. This includes both Open AFS, and the Stanford GUI for managing it. See me for some tweaks that make it smooth (like getting /afs to look as though it is mounted in the root, rather than /Volumes/afs, so it looks just as it does when you're on an AFS machine at work). Also at Stanford ESS

For Tiger OS (From Doug):
I've been using OpenAFS for MacOS X (Tiger), and it works pretty well. Easy download, and simple to configure for SLAC access. I'm assuming you don't use AFS access at LLNL or ANL.

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5. Duplicate these lines, and change the '>slac.stanford.edu' to '>slac'. You should be ready to go. You'll probably have to reboot.

Editors/IDEs

Emacs. As Shipped, but only "curses" interface. Better use "OS X"ified version of GNU distribution available from a few places, see http://www.webweavertech.com/ovidiu/emacs.htmlImage Modified and linked pages. See me for .emacs and redo.el setup. Strongly recommend also installing JDE and JDEbug from www.sunsite.dk (as I recently got SCS to install on /afs/slac/package/emacs), this makes Emacs great java IDE.

For Tiger OS - You must get a different version of emacs compiled for Tiger-
get emacs download from http://home.att.ne.jp/alpha/z123/emacs-mac-e.html
I placed an alias into my login .bashrc file : alias emacs="/Applications/Emacs/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs" so that I can emacs from xterm command line.

Xtools.

Apple's own IDE. As shipped on Developer CD. Heard it's great for C and Java development too but I don't use it. I use emacs and eclipse.

Eclipse.

www.eclipse.org

Netbeans.

if you want netbeans as well as eclipse, it's at www.netbeans.org.

Web & Web Services

tomcat.

Download from apache. Excellent writeup on running a tomcat server in Mac OS X, plus tutorial on servlets, tags etc in http://developer.apple.com/internet/java/tomcat1.htmlImage Modified.

SOAP, xerces, wsif

etc all seem to run on OS X fine. If you want to use these I have some tips for setup.

JDBC Thin Client.

Oracle Developer Network.

Norton Antivirus. www.semantec.com.

Free from Stanford ESS: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/ess/mac/index.htmlImage Modified
For Tiger OS - You must get the latest version (10.0) or else it will keep complaining.

Compilers and Unix commands

Basically all of the original BSD Unix ('Lite') tools are available at an interactive login. see /bin, /usr/bin, usr/local/bin. Java. Eg make, gcc, g++.
As shipped, java 1.4.2!

Java

For Tiger OS -
Apple has an update for Java 1.5 : http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/java2se50release3.html

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So, I whole-heartedly recommend this OmniGraffle tool, even though it has an odd name. And, this Pro version can be upgraded to the next version (v4) free of charge when it's available.

-from doug m.

eSuite4X.

SQL tool.

Unison.

Netnews reader

Windows Media Player.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/default.aspxImage Modified

All Adobe tools:

Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash etc. (Bookstore)

Where to get what you want (other than Google)

Apple

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/Image Modified

SourceForge

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loads of OS X stuff, in particular Fink (they take gnu and other unix sources and make Mac OS X binary packages for them - port them). http://fink.sourceforge.net/Image Modified. Popular one is GIMP, like Photoshop.

osxgnu

gnu software packaged so it will install with the Apple installer

Information

Apple. See

especially developer resources (www.apple.com/developer)
www.osxfaq.com

Just plain cool

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IRC chat clients for mac: AOL and iMac. Both work with Apple's iSight video chat system!

For Tiger OS :

Quicksilver