My hard drive gave up. Now I’ve got a brand new 320 G empty hard drive. Only OS X 10.6 installed. This is a great time to see what I need to make it. These are the apps and docs I’m installing in sequential order (not of importance, but there might be a bit of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mac’
Essential and non essential apps for my Mac
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010TaskPaper and the Pomodoro Technique
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009I’ve been practicing the Pomodoro Technique for about 1 month now. It’s been an incredibly useful tool for me. It’s brought about changes on many levels. One of which is the kind of To-Do lists I create. I’ve loved the GTD methodology since I found it 2 years ago. I’ve used many of the most [...]
Transforming an image —Acorn gets it right
Sunday, November 29th, 2009I’ve been integrating Acorn into my work-flow for about two months now. (Acorn is an image editor of OS X —an alternative to Photoshop or Fireworks). I’ve been using it for cropping images, creating transparent pngs, optimizing jpgs and basically any “small” task that would require me to open up the gigantic monster called Photoshop. [...]
Web designer’s dilemma. Getting rid of Adobe.
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009There’s a growing wish in the web designer community to get rid of Adobe products and find some kind of Photoshop / Fireworks / Illustrator replacement. Why replace Adobe with something else? Well everyone knows the answer to that: Adobe products are bloated and big. They have too many features that no one cares about. [...]
The end of browser wars?
Monday, July 13th, 2009A great post on using the right browser for the job.
Mailplane App evaluation
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009Yesterday my 30 day evaluation period of Mailplane app ended. It was a good month and now I’m wondering if I should buy it. I’m gonna try some things out first before I do.
So in case anyone doesn’t know about it Mailplane is an OS X app that embeds Gmail inside it’s window and empowers you with some pretty cool tools to make it work better for you. Here’s my favorite from the big list of features.
