Wednesday, June 25, 2008 The high-tech capital in the U.S. is...New York City. I'm not surprised. posted by Kirby | June 25 03:30 PM | comments (0)
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 A good friend of mine, who just bought an iMac, asked what Mac software I use regularly and recommend. Instead of emailing a reply to him, I decided to post my list of recommended software here for all to see.
- VMware Fusion - Although I spend less time in Windows these days, I still have to use it for various development projects. So when I need to use Windows, I rely on VMware Fusion, which allows me to run an instance of Windows from within OS X.
- Mail.app - This is the email program that comes with OS X. I use it to manage all my emails.
- iCal - This also comes with OS X and I use it daily.
- Spanning Sync - I used this gem to synch my iCal calendars to Google calendars. I currently synch 5 different calendars, a birthday calendar that I share with my wife, my personal calendar, my wife's calendar, a calendar for trips, and my work calendar.
- YAI (You Are Invited) - This is a Mail.app plug-in that translates and transfers calendar invites from Outlook, Google, and others to iCal.
- Address Book - Another piece of software that comes with OS X.
- TextMate - Damn fine text editor.
- Evernote - For tracking various notes.
- Open Office - For word processing, spreadsheet, etc. I'm using the beta for version 3.0, which support the Aqua interface and does not require X11.
- Adium - My IM client of choice. Adium supports different IM services including Messenger, Yahoo!, AIM, and Google Talk.
- iPhoto - From the iLife suite. I store all my photos in iPhoto libraries.
- Aperture - While I store all my master images in iPhoto, I do all my editing, rating, etc in Aperture.
- iMoive - From the iLife suite. iMovie makes publishing to YouTube a snap.
- iDVD - From the iLife suite. Easy way to record movies for family members who can't view my movies online.
- GarageBand - From the iLife suite. I don't use this much. Typically I only use it to lay down background sound tracks to movies I create.
- VLC - For view various media files.
- Unison - For reading newsgroups.
- NetNewsWire - For reading RSS feeds.
- SuperDuper! - For making back ups of my MBP.
- Skitch - For capturing screen shots and sharing images with others.
- FireFox - Safari is nice, but I prefer FireFox. I use it the majority of the time, and Safari only once in a while.
- CoRD - Enables me to remote desktop into my various Windows servers.
