I’ve actually found precisely the opposite to be true, especially over the last few years. Early on, I agree that Windows had a great selection of accessible apps, but that had to do with Apple’s transition from Carbon to Cocoa. Carbon apps were rarely accessible. Cocoa apps are almost always so. Now that that transition is far behind us, it is very rare that I find a Mac app that is totally inaccessible. The exception to this are apps that have been developed with cross-platform GUI packages that always have terrible accessibility problems on most or all platforms. These are typically terrible apps from usability standpoint, not just accessibility.
Tooble is a free Mac app for downloading YouTube videos. I haven’t used it in a long time, though. Usually, I only care about the audio from a YouTube video, and since Audio Hijack Pro let’s you selective record audio from any app, entirely independent of any other audio being made by your system, it suits my purposes well. Tunesify and Vidify are audio and video converters, respectively, that are inexpensive and may do what you want. I’ve used Tunesify, and have heard good things about Vidify. SoundStudio is an audio editing app that is very comparable to SoundForge on Windows for $29. GarageBand is a fabulous multi-track recording solution for $15. There is a lot of very affordable software on Mac. I agree that the trials situation on the App Store is a problem, though. The production of “lite” versions has someone helped with it, but it is still troublesome. Most apps, though, have trial versions on their website, and I have never had to resort to cracked versions to test an app’s accessibility. Given the enormous community of VoiceOver users now, you can usually just ask for recommendations for a particular kind of app and get what you want. On Dec 17, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Piotr Machacz <piterm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > As far as virtualising on OS X, I keep an XP VM around for things like games. > I gave it 2 gigs of ram and, If I remember right, 2 cores. It does absolutely > nothing to OS X if it’s running. But to really compare performance, OS X on > this particular macbook (2.7GHZ I7, 16GB ram, SSD), usually uses around 2-3% > CPU when I have my usual apps open like email, RSS, Twitter, Messenger, a > safari tab or 2. Battery life, 7 hours, or there a bouts. if I boot into > windows on bootcamp, it heats up very quickly, uses around 5-10% CPU idle, > and battery drops to about 3 hours. > Since we’re on the topic of Mac vs windows apps and all that good stuff, I > have to say that a lot of the time, Windows has better apps for cheeper. Case > and point, there is an app called arid. It’s just a youtube downloader. You > paste a link, select either mp4 video or audio only MP3, and convert. All > this for an incredibly low price of $20. On Windows, you have something like > the free youtube to MP3 converter, which also converts to other audio > formats, and can also process entire channels or playlists, a feature that I > still haven’t found in any mac video downloader. Another slightly annoying > problem is Apple’s no trial policy in the mac app store, where apps are > usually $5-$10 and up, and thanks to the not quite accessible UI frameworks > like QT, you’re never sure if something is going to read or not. Not saying > it’s always the case (look at downcast or iWork which are cheeper than > anything on Windows and work either as well or better), but more often than > not I’ll admit to looking for a cracked version for an app, testing its > accessibility, and then buying it, or not, depending on how that went. > On 17 Dec 2013, at 01:39 am, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Its hard for me to speak about virtualizing on Mac, seeing as I don't >> have one, but from what I can tell Apple knows how to make their OS >> use the hardware it is running on well so it isn't a resource hog. So >> even though the processors and memory in Mac's may seem behind >> compared to Windows machines a Mac user usually gets better >> performance out of it because Apple doesn't waste the power and memory >> the way a certain other software company does. As someone recently >> said, "Apple doesn't make junk." >> >> Cheers! >> >> On 12/15/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Well mac software may be a bit more officient. >>> though I have only heard this from the point view of those musicians >>> and such that use it. >>> SOme of those that are able to use macs will happily bash down >>> windows units for not being as fast. >>> On vertual machines windows probably is not the best to run a vm on a >>> thing I discovered a while ago. >>> A mac or linux is suggested. >>> So as far as windows goes there may be some limits never really gone >>> over them though. >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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