I really hate it when we talk about using MAC's in the dealership. Don't you know we are never supposed to reveal our secrets? It's like breaking the magicians code. If we want to continue to be hero's lets not tell everyone about this. That being said, what I have found is that dealers are never going to convert over so I guess it's OK.
iPhoto - Great for doing fast photo retouching and organization. Works really well to archive photos in a simple and easy to use format. I love the search feature.
iMovie - Real easy to make video walk around's or in our case a video introduction of our sales people. Take a look at this. These were shot using my iPhone and edited on iMovie. Took about 25 min to edit and upload the video.
YouTube - mini of murray salt lake city utah motoring advisor tony poulson
Mail - put's outlook to shame
Things - Great GTD manager for iphone and desktop
Pages - use this for almost everything. Great for creating process' with workflows and chats.
Photoshop - use this to create ads and graphics for web and print.
Stickies - great for keeping code and phone numbers a click away. better to have this than a rainbow of sticky notes all over your monitor.
Textedit - use for writing HTML code and formatting. Very basic but works
Password1 - The Holy Grail of passwords
VMware Fusion - have to use windows to interface with BMW. Makes me appreciate apple every day.
DropBox - Online data storage, great for keeping yourself portable.
Keynote - The Steve Jobs of presentations. (It was made for him by apple)
Soundtrack Pro - I make all of our commercials for our on-hold music. better than musak and we control the content.
Screenflow - Screen shot video recording. makes making a "training video" real easy.
