I keep computer use simple, in service to my two top hobbies.
For photography, Preview.app does nearly all my everyday chores. I use GIMP for anything more complex. I get such great results from Nikon jpegs that I haven't needed to do raw processing yet.
GIMP lets me adjust light along a curve, something that the old xv program did. It's really useful.
For music, I use ForScore. After countless years, I still haven't figured out all the gestures and such, but it does the job and almost all my music is either off copyright or scanned from my printed copies. The space and weight saving is enormous.
Others that have made minor improvements include a couple of image resizers (they change names), Clearview for epubs (Why Apple doesn't handle these natively and sends them all to the cloud/ibooks [1] astounds me.) Calibre helps with book conversion. And I rarely use others by comparison, besides the usual builtins.
[1] Anything "in the cloud" belongs to someone else. Disks are basically free. A Shugart 8" floppy cost $350 in 1984.
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I keep computer use simple, in service to my two top hobbies.
For photography, Preview.app does nearly all my everyday chores. I use GIMP for anything more complex. I get such great results from Nikon jpegs that I haven't needed to do raw processing yet.
GIMP lets me adjust light along a curve, something that the old xv program did. It's really useful.
For music, I use ForScore. After countless years, I still haven't figured out all the gestures and such, but it does the job and almost all my music is either off copyright or scanned from my printed copies. The space and weight saving is enormous.
Others that have made minor improvements include a couple of image resizers (they change names), Clearview for epubs (Why Apple doesn't handle these natively and sends them all to the cloud/ibooks [1] astounds me.) Calibre helps with book conversion. And I rarely use others by comparison, besides the usual builtins.
[1] Anything "in the cloud" belongs to someone else. Disks are basically free. A Shugart 8" floppy cost $350 in 1984.