Instead of doing some sort of yearly top ten or random post on OS X software i like i can now simply point you to my profile on iUseThis. It’s not complete yet as not everything i use is in the iUseThis database but i’m adding the last few myself. My complete profile should make a nice starter list for Mac switchers as would the other profiles on the site. Nice concept overall and usefull already.
Codewave Software just released this iTunes MP3 server add on that allows you to listen to your collection over a local network or the internet. I haven’t tested it yet but it looks very promsing and should work on both mac & windows.
Seashore is like good old paint shop pro for macs. It’s not photoshop by a long shot but i don’t think it aims to be and for some simple photo resizing, cropping and a bit of retouching it actually does a great job. Especially considering it’s open source and only at version 0.1.8 at the time of this writing. Word of warning; the website looks a bit off-putting but at least the icon is rather charming.
As my previous post suggests the web dev community site Vitamin just launched and one of the first articles offers some tips for my favorite text editor: TextMate.
Apple bracht gisteren een officiele (zij het beta) versie uit van een bootloader die het mogelijk maakt in windows te starten op je intel based Mac. Dat is ongeveer het laatste wat ik had verwacht maar dessalnietemin een interessante ontwikkeling.
Apple Introduces Boot Camp
Sinds enige tijd heeft Plazes een nieuwe en erg verbeterde launcher uitgebracht. Het eerste wat mij opviel was dat deze versie ook werkt door de office firewall van mijn huidige klant maar er is heel veel ander moois te melden. Plazer (de nieuwe naam van de launcher) ondersteunt nu het editen van je locatie binnen het programma zelf. Je kan zoeken naar bepaalde locaties in de buurt; b.v. alle lokaties met gratis wifi binnen een straal van 1 km (handig!) en het programma heeft gewoon een betere vormgeving gekregen.
Hamachi looks to be a very promising step towards zero config networking. Appearently you can share itunes through this, play lan games or any other task you might use a VPN for. I’m having a buit of trouble with the mac osx version but the windows and linux versions work fine already and a mac version with a GUI is expected to be out soon.
Since i still meet people that think Firefox only has a market share of a few percents i give thee this handy chart of the browsers market share per european country: XiTi - Etude Xiti Monitor
The netherlands has a shameful 10% but some european countries almost get to 40%! (even i didn’t think it was going that well for the little browser that could).
Still not using Firefox? Get it here.
update: it fucking flies on my powerbook. i’m so happy! 