Feb 27
I know, I know–I’ve been very lax about posting lately. I’ve been busy. More on that later.
I couldn’t resist posting this, though. For several weeks now, I’ve had my Google Reader subscribed to the RSS feed for icanhascheezburger.com.
Now, I’ve always been of the opinion that cats are evil (especially after being owned by one for a few years). There’s no denying that they make great photo opportunities, though. Combine that with funny captions in broken English and it’s a recipe for hilarity also known as I Can Has Cheezburger.
I had to post this because I came across this one today which just struck my inner-geek as one of the funniest ones I’ve seen yet.
So, what are you waiting for? Go subscribe to icanhascheezburger.com and start getting a daily dose of feline humor (even if it does seem a little gay).
Feb 07
Mac Tricks and Tips has a great post listing their Top 100 Essential Applications for the Mac. Some are must-have, some are good, and some I would avoid like the plague (Quicken 2007, why must you suck so?). Some, I even question the use of the word “Essential” in the article’s title (come on, Aperture? Seriously?), but this list is a nice collection of some great Mac applications in one place. Of course, the clincher for me was finding GrandPerspective which is an open-source Mac OS X re-imagining of SpaceMonger, one of my all-time favorite Windows utilities.
Here are a handful I have had good experiences with and can recommend:
- GrandPerspective
- Adium
- CSSEdit
- Cyberduck
- VLC
- Audacity
- Delicious Library
- Handbrake
- Pixelmator
- iAlertU (only for notebooks with the sudden motion sensor)
- Carbon Copy Cloner
- Flip4Mac (warning, Microsoft product)
- Growl (comes conveniently packaged with Adium)
- Parallels (if you must run Windows)
- iWork (nearly half the price of the cheapest MS Office package)
Here are a couple that didn’t make the list, but I still love:
Sorry I was too lazy to include links to all of them, but all the ones from the “Top 100″ list are linked on their site and usually Google does a good job of finding them too.
