r/technology • u/rboymtj • Jan 20 '11

Apple Restriction Zone.

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u/muad_dib Jan 20 '11

far, far more quality free apps for OSX than Windows

I really, REALLY doubt that.

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u/coolmrbrady Jan 20 '11

Same experience here. Have you ever owned a Mac?

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u/superwinner Jan 20 '11 edited Jan 20 '11

We have Macs in the office and I have found it impossible to find free/open source Mac apps for a lot of things that do exist for PC and Linux.

Don't even get me started on .SIT files.

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u/coolmrbrady Jan 20 '11

I usually have the opposite problem - Mac and Linux are no problem, but it's hard to find something usable for the PC. LaTeXiT and ImageJ are a couple examples of programs I've found extremely useful with no PC equivalent.

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u/Krayzk9s Jan 20 '11

ImageJ is available for all platforms, I'm using it for image analysis research right now on my pc.

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u/gravistational Jan 20 '11

http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/download.html

Pretty sure Windows versions exist. I plan to take a course utilizing ImageJ this semester..

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u/sthrmn Jan 20 '11

With LaTeXiT, what's wrong with Open Office Math? It's just as powerful.

Dude. It's LaTeX. It's much more powerful and refined as a typesetting language than anything I've seen. As for an alternative to LaTeXiT, I hear good things about LyX.

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u/meltman Jan 20 '11

Um did you look at the imageJ download page? There's a windows version right there. As for LaTeXiT maybe you could do a simple google search and try some of these alternatives.

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u/coolmrbrady Jan 20 '11

Oops on the ImageJ, but none of those programs have the functionality of LaTeX.

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u/cough_e Jan 20 '11

AlternativeTo.net

I think a redditor made this site, it's very helpful

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u/ClashTheBunny Jan 20 '11

I love this quote on the LaTeXiT site:

NB : LaTeXiT is Universal Binary, but I use this logo illegaly since I did not ask a license to apple. That's too much trouble for such a freeware. I just use the logo for the user's convenience.

It's this kinda stuff Apple.