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March 31, 2006
Essential Apps for Mac OS X
I was asked by a friend, who is about to buy a new Mac, to recommend some good software for OS X that I find useful. I decided to make a post here as my response with a top list of essential software. In no particular order, here we go...
(programs in green are free to download)
- Safari (even better than Firefox in my opinion if you're on OS X, as far as its ability to integrate with the OS)
- Adium (switched over to Adium from iChat a while ago and never looked back)
- Skype (best VoIP client out there)
- Mail (despite a few quirks, you can't beat Apple Mail on OS X)
- iAlarm (indispensable multi-purpose alarm tool, it will even speak the news and weather to you!)
- Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop CS
- OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle (amazing programs for organizing ideas and especially podcast show notes)
- Microsoft Office 2004 (use sparingly if possible, I wish Pages was just a bit better so that I could switch over to it)
- Macromedia Flash/Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Cyberduck (truly awesome ftp client, best free one out there for the mac)
- iPodderX (I use it to manage all my podcast subscriptions, there is a free "Lite" version available online)
- iLife '05 (notably iPhoto, iTunes, and Garageband for podcast recording)
- NetNewsWire Lite (great free RSS reader, simple and elegant)
- ecto (used to manage my blog and write this very post)
- Azureus (for all your torrent needs)
- Colloquy (best IRC client for OS X)
- sixtyforce (if you're a fan of N64, this is a great emulator)
- Google Earth
- VLC (for weird codecs that QuickTime doesn't support)
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Upgraded to MT 3.2
Well, I finally got around to upgrading the site to Movable Type 3.2. I had a couple problems, including a failure to recognize the 100+ comments that existed before the update. However, I solved it by re-importing all my entries from a backup, which gave me a duplicate of every entry where the new copy was recognized to have the appropriate comments.
After this complicated ordeal and painstakingly deleting every duplicate entry, I think everything is working well. I am enjoying the new trackback/comment spam blocking features, which should make my life much easier.
Posted by Alan Joyce at 10:31 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
March 28, 2006
Upgraded Servers
You may notice everythingdigital.org is loading faster now. This is because my web host, BlueHost, has just upgraded me to a new 10 GB storage/250 GB bandwidth package and relocated my website to their new servers. This caused some temporary downtime for much of yesterday and some of today, but everything is working fine now.
Posted by Alan Joyce at 03:16 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 25, 2006
EverythingDigital Podcast 2006-03-25
The iPod Hi-Fi, new iTunes Music Store video offerings, Microsoft's advice to Apple concerning security, Encyclopedia Britannica's rebuttal of Wikipedia's determined accuracy, Yahoo!'s new VoIP service, more delays for Vista and Office 2007, and the LED "Throwies" project.
SHOW NOTES: HTML | OPML | TEXT
DOWNLOAD THE MP3 | 28:32 | 13.1 MB |
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March 18, 2006
MT-Blacklist Report
I've been using MT-Blacklist for almost as long as I have been using Movable Type, and it has been awesome at fighting comment and trackback spam. Check out the latest tally:
MT-Blacklist Stats
Comment spams blocked: 33505
Comment spams moderated: 778
Duplicates blocked: 336
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