Anders Pollas

Found this iPoding.com post: Unof­fi­cial con­fir­ma­tion from Apple employee regard­ing record­ing via Richard Giles ear­lier today. Good news if true (has to be…!). Had some trou­ble access­ing the site due to heavy traf­fic — have patience…

Clev­er­Cac­tus, a new PIM, is now in beta. The need for a decent way of orga­niz­ing the dif­fer­ent types of orga­ni­za­tion we han­dle every day is defi­nately there… I’ll be look­ing for­ward to the full-featured releases of Clev­er­Cac­tus, Chan­dler and the Mozilla Cal­en­der.

I’ve been play­ing with a Power­Book for about a day now, and while most pro­grams (office tools, graphic soft­ware, browsers and mail clients etc.) basi­cally are the same on both plat­forms (usu­ally I’m on PC), some of all the tools that make life good doesn’t exist in cross plat­form ver­sions. But, hey — that’s what make con­vert­ing a good thing, get­ting to try out some of the soft­ware Mac users talk about. I solved my Jab­bing (?!) by installing PSI on both machines. I haven’t really fig­ured out whether it’s any bet­ter or worse than Exo­dus, but at least they’re the same. BBe­dit is going to take some getting-used-to — the lack of PC style tool bars feels funny — but I’ll defi­nately give it a try. If I under­stand things cor­rectly, everybody’s using it. Haven’t checked out the FTP func­tion­al­ity though, so when I found myself need­ing to down­load a lot of files this morn­ing, I found Cap­tain FTP. It’s free­ware and besides the tacky iden­tity they’ve got going, its like most other FTP clients, so that’s prob­a­bly fine. Import­ing my sub­scrip­tions exported from SharpReader into Net­NewsWire proved to cause the most trou­ble. As it turns out, their OPML isn’t exactly the same, so it took some search-and-replace (using BBe­dit, of course) to get Net­NewsWire to accept the import. Didn’t bother to find out exa­cly what caused it, though.

But every­hing else is run­ning smoothly and the OS X is a treat. Nice to expe­ri­ence a less tech­ni­cal approach to com­put­ing, and visu­ally it’s just more slick… I look for­ward to try out some of the Mac-only soft­ware out there, that I haven’t had a chance to try out yet (already found some stuff in my own cod­ing that make Safari fuck up even though it ren­ders fine in all other browsers) and learn­ing those lit­tle tricks that make every­thing easier.

Recom­man­da­tions on must-haves as well as tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated.

Typ­ing this using the new w.bloggar 3.01 which now fea­tures the use of a Win­dows Medi­aplayer plu­gin that I’ll try to test some­time soon. Yeter­day I found Chan­dler [via Rus­sell Beat­tie Note­book] — a small per­sonal infor­ma­tion man­ager

. It’s still in early alpha and pretty use­less so far, but looks inter­est­ing and fea­tures some sort of inte­gra­tion with your Jab­ber ros­ter. Being a recent Jab­ber con­vert, this is inter­est­ing (oh, Rus­sell Beat­tie has com­ments on that as well, though the perma­link seems bro­ken at this time). Also fol­low­ing “Wanted: Bet­ter IMAP for Win­dows” post via Lazy­web as I’ve decided to quit using Out­look. I’m cur­rently giv­ing Mozilla ago… Drop­ping Out­look means being with­out a cal­en­der app too, so so far I’m stuck with PalmDesk­top. Any rec­om­men­da­tions on email clients and cal­en­der apps would be gratly appreciated.