About six or seven years ago, I think it was at the beginning of 2010, I got my first Mac. It was an aluminum unibody MacBook, second-hand but brand new. In fact, it's been through a couple more hands already and it's still working great from what I was told. That day I formatted it and left it as out of the factory, and I remember that I was a little lost. What applications should I install to start using it without any impediment?
If now you are the one who just got in front of your first Mac, or you plan to get one this Christmas (or better yet, get it as a gift 😬), the same thing that happened to me will probably happen to you back in the day. But you should not worry, the truth is that a Mac already includes everything you need to start working or entertaining without problems. Even so, you will need a series of basic applications, and those are precisely the ones that I am going to show you today.
What should not be missing in the Mac of any first-timer
Next I will show you a list of the basic applications that cannot be missing on your Mac. This selection is based on my experience, and some of them have been with me since that day in 2010 when I had my first MacBook, so they will not disappoint at all. Let's get started.
NOTE: of course, we ignore the applications that already come standard with macOS X Sierra.
The Unarchiver
The Unarchiver is a small application, a utility weighing just over four megabytes and totally free, with which you will be able to decompress any file you download from the network regardless of the format, like Zip, RAR, 7-zip, Tar, Gzip or Bzip2 and others that, honestly, I don't even know where they come from.
It is always in the first places of downloading free utilities for Mac (at the moment in second place), and it does not surprise me because it has never failed me in these years.
VLC Media Player
This is the players player, a true all-rounder that reproduces practically everything: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3….
VLC is a free and open source multiplatform media player and framework that plays most multimedia files, as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD and various streaming protocols.
Nor has it ever failed me and that is why I always recommend it. In addition, it is completely free. It is not in the Mac App Store but you can download it with confidence from its official website here.
uTorrent
uTorrent es the best application that exists to download torrents of all kinds: documents, books, movies, series, music, everything. It works great and hardly takes up space on your Mac (just over 1MB).
µTorrent is just over 1MB (less than a digital photo!). It installs lightning fast and will never hog your valuable system resources.
Download your files in the fastest and most efficient way possible without slowing down the rest of your online activities.
uTorrent is not available on the Mac App Store however, you can also download it with full confidence through its official website here. And of course, it is also totally free.
Memory Clean 2
When you are working with several applications open at the same time, you will need to free up RAM memory so that everything runs more smoothly. This is precisely what Memory Clean 2 does with just one click. «Memory Clean 2 en the ultimate application to optimize your Mac memory«, And after years of using it, I can assure you that it is a marvel and to top it all, one hundred percent free.
Memory Clean is accessible from the menu bar on your Mac and all it takes is a click to free up that memory your machine needs so as not to slow down when you're giving it a lot of power.
You can download it directly from the Mac App Store.
Continue with second of these basic Mac applications.
Where can I download the first one?
Hello John. The Unarchiver can be downloaded directly from the Mac App Store. I add it to the post, which must have failed something and that is why it does not come out (technology things) and I give you the link to the Spanish store directly here https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/the-unarchiver/id425424353?mt=12 All the best!!!