I was on the Mac Roundtable Podcast this week with Adam Christianson (of The MacCast) and Ken Ray (Mac OS Ken). We chatted about User Groups, iPhone, WWDC, and various other Apple-related topics.

It was a lot of fun, although my Skype kept giving out and dropping me. Maybe I need to make some kind of sacrifice to the Comcast gods in order to get a stable connection these days.

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Well, as you may have seen from my Flickr page, I welcomed a new bundle of joy into my home this past week: a shiny new MacBook Pro (15″ 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, 120GB [5400RPM] HD.) So then I had to pull some things over from the G5 and start setting it up. I put the G5 in Firewire mode, and started importing music first. Wow, was that ever cathartic! It was almost like cleaning out your closet from the house you grew up in… I started dumping music that I hadn’t listened to in years, and laughing at some of the junk I used to think was awesome. A lot of it went back to the Napster heyday.

Instead of dragging all my software over, I just downloaded (or reinstalled) the stuff that I needed. I didn’t want to bog the laptop down with apps that I would never use. It went in this order:
World of Warcraft
Quicksilver
Firefox
Adium 1.0
Growl
AppZapper
Twitterific
smcFanControl (Ryan told me about this… good for keeping the laptop cool when playing WoW)

What apps would you go and download immediately? What can’t you live without? I need some more suggestions!

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Scott is hilarious.

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Pretty nicely!

Thanks, Andrew!

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