Posted on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Cyberpunk, Science Fiction
This
weeks pick is a book - you know those analog ((If you prefer
digital you can get it from
Audible.com
or from
iTunes))
thingies that doesn't require batteries. My pick is
Snow Crash by
Neal Stephenson
and this is quite possibly the best science fiction novel I have
ever …
Posted on Sun, 19 Jul 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Apps, MacOSX, Tools
This
weeks pick is cute little utillity app from the
Iconfactory ((You know, the ones with
the Twitter bird icon that everybody copies)) called
xScope. If you do any
kind of design work
xScope will most
certainly help you in your day to day work.
xScope is really a
compilation …
Posted on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 in Productivity • Tagged with Apple, Apps, MacOSX, Spaces
I use
Spaces a lot
and today it just got a whole lot better! Back in the olden days I
used VirtueDesktops which in my
opinion was way better than
Spaces, but the
project
died
and we were left with
Spaces. In the
beginning
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Posted on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Apps, Copy, Cut, MacOSX, Paste, Writing
This
weeks pick is an oldie,
but a goodie. It is a Mac app that I can't live without. I work
with computers all day long developing software for various
$clients. When developing software I spend a great deal of time in
a text editor ((Preferably
Emacs,
TextMate or
Xcode …
Posted on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Bike, Environment, Green, trioBike
This
weeks pick comes a bit later ((And it should have been a Mac app I
use every day, but you'll have to wait until next week for that
one.)) than usual. This is because we have been out using it ever
since we got it on Thursday evening. As …
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Beejive, Instant Messaging, iPhone
This weeks pick is
all about communicating, and it's an iPhone app ((And a BlackBerry
app and a Windows Mobile app - but who cares about these legacy
platforms anyway... ;-))). With Apples release of iPhone OS 3.0 we
got push notifications ((I still wish for a way to have apps …
Posted on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Git, SCM, Tools
I
have been using
source code management
systems ((Including, but not limited to:
RCS,
CVS,
Subversion,
Bazaar, Darcs &
Mercurial)) for more than a
decade, but I have never been quite happy with how they worked
until I switched to git ((I switched to git late in 2006 when I got …
Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with 1Password, Apps, iPhone, MacOSX
This weeks pick is an
tool that is usualy the first thing I install on a new computer
((And by computer I mean Mac)). It's an app that keeps my personal
information safe. It's an app called 1Password that totally
replaces MacOSX' build in Keychain. So why would I want …
Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 in Technology • Tagged with Apple, iPhone, Keynote, MacOSX, WWDC
Man I wish I was
in
San Francisco
right now ((For one thing I would be sleeping right now instead of
being on my way to work on another boring Monday morning)) and as
you may already know today ((We who live in the future must wait
until tonight at …
Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Apps, iPhone
Inspired
by Leo and his
gang on
TWiT, I am starting a weekly post series about
apps and technology I find particular cool. This weeks pick is a
small game called
Flight Control from
Firemint.
Flight Control is a very
simple game with exceptionally beautiful graphics and it's very
addicting …