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*** bwinton@mozilla.com has 40-some-odd licenses for Balsamiq for use in designing open source Mozilla products. Feel free to contact him if you would like one. | *** bwinton@mozilla.com has 40-some-odd licenses for Balsamiq for use in designing open source Mozilla products. Feel free to contact him if you would like one. | ||
** Pandora/Rdio or even iTunes Match / Google Music for your music (not available in all countries) | ** Pandora/Rdio or even iTunes Match / Google Music for your music (not available in all countries) | ||
* [http://cmder.net/ cmder] is a much better terminal than the built in cmd.exe. | |||
* Use Dropbox to sync your files between Mac and Windows — this can also solve basic file backup in a decent way | * Use Dropbox to sync your files between Mac and Windows — this can also solve basic file backup in a decent way | ||
* A license for Photoshop on Windows if you're so afflicted :P | * A license for Photoshop on Windows if you're so afflicted :P | ||
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* There are several great text editors for Windows | * There are several great text editors for Windows | ||
** [http://www.sublimetext.com/ SublimeText] — like TextMate, but for Windows '''and''' Mac. $60. | ** [http://www.sublimetext.com/ SublimeText] — like TextMate, but for Windows '''and''' Mac. $60. | ||
** [http://atom.io/ Atom] - like SublimeText, but free and open source. 😄 | |||
** [http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad++] is free and open source. | ** [http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad++] is free and open source. | ||
** [http://www.pspad.com/ PSPad] freeware | ** [http://www.pspad.com/ PSPad] freeware | ||
* Get a good screenshot utility, you'll need it if you want to capture Aero Glass effects, the built-in screenshot mechanism doesn't. A good, free alternative is [http://shotty.devs-on.net/en/Overview.aspx Shotty]. | |||
=Fix the annoying things= | =Fix the annoying things= | ||
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* If Windows just looks the wrong "color" to you, here's how you can get things to feel more natural [http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/834252-howto-make-windows-7-use-a-good-mac-color-profile/ Use Your Mac Color Profile on Windows] | * If Windows just looks the wrong "color" to you, here's how you can get things to feel more natural [http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/834252-howto-make-windows-7-use-a-good-mac-color-profile/ Use Your Mac Color Profile on Windows] | ||
* If Windows fonts look wrong to you, tune them. Click on the Start menu, type "cleartype" into the searchbox, and hit enter. That will launch the Windows ClearType tuner app. However, Windows chooses to render fonts very differently than Mac does, [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/font-rendering-respecting-the-pixel-grid.html as explained here]. | * If Windows fonts look wrong to you, tune them. Click on the Start menu, type "cleartype" into the searchbox, and hit enter. That will launch the Windows ClearType tuner app. However, Windows chooses to render fonts very differently than Mac does, [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/font-rendering-respecting-the-pixel-grid.html as explained here]. | ||