All Things considered
As much as it may have looked like, I’m not actually dead. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at Mac software to demo for the Montreal Mac User Group and once again the quality of the Mac shareware scene as astounding.
The first one I bought in 2009 was FlickrExport for Aperture. It’s a really nice plugin for Aperture (also available for iPhoto 08) that makes it easy to upload photos to Flickr. I’ve been playing with it a bit and it seems to works really well so far.
The second one I bought, a few days later was EventBox. If you’re at all like me, you’ve been spending a lot of time online on various social networks and EventBox is a neat piece of software that ties together Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Redit and generic RSS feeds. It’s not perfect (I wish I could manage more than 1 twitter account with it), but it’s at a resonable price and it’s made by a small company. I just love encouraging up and coming developers like this.
Finally, I just bought Things for Mac OS X to help me better manage my task list. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of OmniGroup and I bought OmniFocus the day it came out because I was convinced OmniGroup would again come up with a great piece of software. In a way, they did, but the interface feels a bit weird to me and because of that I never really got into it. The iPhone application for OmniFocus is nice and all, but the synching feels clunky too. Things is a new piece of software by Cultured Code, another new developer. Just a quick glance at their site will convince you that these guys know how to create a Mac application that actually feels like one.
Since I’ve only tried the software for a few minutes, I’ll report back in the next few days with more impressions of the software. One quick note though, the company has a coupon code for 20% off valid until January 15. Use the code THINGSPRESALE20 to get the rebate.
(Oh, and I also bought iWork 09. I’ll post on it in the next few days, but I must say I’m liking it a lot so far!)
