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[tag]VoodooPad[/tag] is up to 3.0. Still undecided it I’m going to upgrade just yet. There are now 3 tiers of the application and I’d lose the encryption unless I went “Pro” but man a tabbed interface and that PDF service are pretty sick looking… And man (OH MAN!) does that “[tag]linkback[/tag]” feature tickle me in all the right ways…

Posted on July 12th, 2006 by found_drama in Mac.

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#Essential OS X Software

Been toying around with doing this list for a while now. The question: What are the top 10 software applications for OS X (that aren’t out-of-the-box, mind you) that are absolutely essential? The top 10 apps that I couldn’t live without:

[tag]Quicksilver[/tag] (http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/) - The launcher to end all launchers. Is there anything this app can’t do? “Oh, that? There’s a plug-in for that.” Seriously, having used it for a over a year now, I can’t imagine computing without Quicksilver. Not just computing on a Mac without it. Computing. (In other words, Quicksilver is the reason I’ll never be able to go back to the PC.) Some folks say [tag]Spotlight[/tag] can do the same thing. Clearly, they weren’t using Quicksilver to its utmost.
[tag]VoodooPad[/tag] (http://www.flyingmeat.com/) - A personal wiki and info manager. Fast and easy to use, if works the way a notepad app should. Because it’s a wiki at heart. Encryption, backlinks, document-wide searches, categorization, sketching; the list goes on. Also available in “Lite” version.
[tag]Cyberduck[/tag] (http://cyberduck.ch/) - Fully-featured FTP application. Complete with SFTP support. Complete with [tag]Rendezvous[/tag]/[tag]Bonjour[/tag] support. Complete with [tag]AppleScript[/tag] support. Complete with [tag]Keychain[/tag] support. (Insert your localization here.) Oh, and it’s open source. (Honorable mention here: [tag]Fugu[/tag]!)
[tag]OmniGraffle[/tag] (http://www.omnigroup.com/) - Pretty much the perfect diagramming application. And with some sweet drawing capabilities wrapped up in it, too. (Because those are prett intrinsically linked.) Worth the price. And so is the Professional version.
[tag]Camino[/tag] (http://www.caminobrowser.org/) - Don’t get me wrong, [tag]Safari[/tag] is a great browser. (And apparently the first browser to pass the Acid2 test.) But in the “real world” there are plenty of sites that either don’t support it (or that Safari doesn’t support). Politics and rhetoric aside, Camino is a great browser in its own right and the superior Gecko-based browser on OS X. For when you need to (you know) use a WYSIWYG editor like the one in [tag]WordPress[/tag].
[tag]ImageWell[/tag] (http://www.xtralean.com/) - A lightweight image editor for running certain quickie image manipulations. Including the ones that you’d expect to see in [tag]iPhoto[/tag] but didn’t manage to make it there. (And this is another one of those freebies…)
[tag]Lingon[/tag] (http://lingon.sourceforge.net/) - The [tag]launchd[/tag] editor/manager. And it’s open source.
[tag]OnyX[/tag] (http://www.titanium.free.fr/) - A little app that opens up some of OS X’s secret preferences. Like sticking your Dock flush right.
[tag]Flip4Mac[/tag] (http://www.flip4mac.com/) - A plug-in for [tag]Quicktime[/tag] that lets you play Windows Media files. Nothing spectacular here except that it rids you of having to download RealPlayer in order to browse the music on [tag]Amazon.com[/tag]. (And recently made free!)
(insert your [tag]text editor[/tag] here) - A controversial subject, I know… Many folks would shout “[tag]BBEdit[/tag]!” here … but I’m not one of those. I tried it. I could see how someone might fall in love with it. But I had a hard time getting used to it. Didn’t “do it” for me. That said, I’ve recently discovered [tag]TextMate[/tag] and am rather enjoying that. As far as text editors go at least. Also, honorable mention here: [tag]jEdit[/tag] - - a Java-based text editor. Open source and free, it’s pretty powerful and has a slew of awesome plug-ins. I’ve used it for 3 or 4 years now and have been pretty happy with it. Except that (like all Java apps) it’s hella slow…

Another Honorable Mention: [tag]Adium X[/tag] … a neat little chat client. And (in my experience) a hell of a lot better than [tag]iChat[/tag]. But I don’t include it in the top 10 because frankly, I kind of abhor chat. A.k.a. “latent messenger”…

currently playing: Chris Connelly “Come Down Here”

Posted on March 8th, 2006 by found_drama in Mac.

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#Yojimbo

From ’round the web (in this case: MacSlash): Bare Bones’ [tag]Yojimbo[/tag] personal information organizer.

What’s this doing that [tag]StickyBrain[/tag] or [tag]Voodoo Pad[/tag] isn’t?

Granted, I can’t speak much for StickyBrain. Never used it. Don’t see the point in that kind of system. (Maybe I would if I’d used it?) I’ll stick to Voodoo Pad, which I think is the best little app since they invented vi and grep.

This isn’t to diminish Yojimbo. [tag]Gruber[/tag] seems to like it. Not to say “just because” - - just that I value his opinion and having not tried it (see above). That said: I may give the demo a whirl for the hell of it - - but given that you can encrypt with Voodoo Pad … well, VP’s wiki style is more my style.

currently playing: Fluke “Bermuda”

Posted on January 24th, 2006 by found_drama in Mac & tech.

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