The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox, aka “Essential Apps For The Digital Junkie”.



A digital junkie or pirate will often stumble across rar archives. Files in rar archives end with a .rar file suffix. Rar is like zip, a form of file compression. Unlike zip however OS X supplies you with no apps to open these archives (CLI tools are provided).
From the UnRarX site: UnRarX is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives and restore corrupted or missing archives using par2.

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The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox, aka “Essential Apps For The Digital Junkie”.



Out of the box Apple’s Quicktime supports a dismally small amount of filetypes and video codecs. Therefor VLC Media Player with its comprehensive support for different video files and video codecs is a must have for any OS X digital junkie who does not spend his or her time accumulating content solely in the iTunes Store.

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The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox, aka “Essential Apps For The Digital Junkie”.

Fair enough. If you wanna be a digital junkie you’re gonna need some data. To connect to P2P BitTorrent file sharers and get some data you’re gonna need a BitTorrent client. uTorrent is a lightweight and fast client that has been popular on the PC-side for many years and has recently been brought to the mac. Even though it is in beta it is recognised by most as being ready for prime time.

Download BitTorrent files from tracker sites like mininova and thepiratebay and open them up in one of the above BitTorrent clients to download the data to your mac.

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