![]() ![]() When you run your own business, you need to be very careful to manage your time efficiently. For some reason I have been leaving Opera out of my rotation. I also like how Safari and Camino share a password database. I think I like the Camino keyboard shortcuts the most though. Today I am using Firefox 3 because I wanted read my feeds offline with Google Gears. I have absolutely no loyalties to any browser and I switch whenever the wind changes direction. When I want to blog a picture immediately I tend to use Plasq software's Skitch because it lets me quickly post the picture with all my cheeky annotations. After doing that for about a year, I have a nice little library of screenshots that is organized by keyword. Then I upload the files to Flickr and tag them appropriately. png image of the active program saved to my desktop. Typically, I use the key command Command-Shift-4, then space to get a. Image Capture: Command-Shift-4, Flickr, Skitchįor work I look at a lot of software and I take a lot of screenshots. Although there are not as many stencils as Visio, you can read and write from Visio's XML format with relatively good accuracy. Then I found OmniGraffle and I have moved on. The one Windows application that I thought I was going to miss was Visio. Maybe if both MS Office and iWork supported it, ODF would realize its vision. It sure would be nice if iWork would support Open Document. ![]() I have NeoOffice installed for the occasional Open Document file I receive. It is a good thing when your office applications don't suck your will to live. I am very happy with the iWork applications and tend to write deliverables and presentations in Pages and Keynote and then export to the Microsoft formats. When I bought my Mac, I felt obligated to throw in a license for Microsoft Office. ![]() Syncro is my client when I am not in a command line mood. Old habits are hard to break and I am a religious source control user for my website and my reports. Source Control: SVN via Wush and the Syncro SVN Client Eclipse takes so long to load that it makes me think twice about whether I want to get sucked into my programming head and lose track of time for the next few hours. I rarely do serious coding anymore but when I do, I use Eclipse. It comes with the Syncro SVN Client which works well enough. I first used the Eclipse plugin but then I transfered my license to the stand-alone version, which is a lot faster. I was disappointed to learn that XMetaL doesn't work on the Mac. I write my reports in XML (DocBook) so a good XML editor that validates as I type and runs my transforms is important to me. I seem to be in good company because I keep recognizing TextMate in screencasts. I tried TextMate because I like to be able to set up "projects." Before I discovered you could set up a "disk browser" in TextWrangler, I fell in like with TextMate. I started out with TextWrangler because it's free. It doesn't try to give you WYSIWYG editing features and that is OK by me. I bitched a little on the support forums to no effect and then decided to vote with my feet and went over to MarsEdit, which I love. Then I went to Ecto which I used for around a month until I got annoyed with its quirky notions about HTML. For a while I used a simple text editor and then copy paste into the Blogger web UI. When I started taking longer trips for client projects and conferences, I realized I needed an offline blogging tool. They work as advertised and I have absolutely no complaints. Since these applications are pretty much always open, I wanted them to be stable, well integrated, lightweight, and just good enough. I decided to go with the Mac defaults: Mail.app, iCal, and Address Book. Here is a list of apps that have made the experience that much more pleasurable. The migration for me has been an unqualified success. I have been on a Mac since I started Content Here a little over a year ago. ![]()
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