There are a lot of great things about using a Mac, too many to count. But one thing that Mac software developers as a group don’t do well is right-to-left text editing.
TextEdit, the built-in lightweight text editor, handles right-to-left, pretty well actually, and it’s good for jotting things down, but isn’t up to formatting an [...]
After ripping into Accordance maps the other day, I had a detailed to-and-fro with one of the developers there, Roy, who listened very carefully to my comments, pointed out a couple of misunderstandings on my part, and was altogether very willing to hear my feedback and work it into potential future plans.
This morning, David Lang, [...]
Posted in mac stuff, technology on Aug 10th, 2008
Accordance is driving me crazy. The text stuff is fine. It has its annoying quirks, but what doesn’t?
The maps module is so, so frustrating. It is completely unintuitive and there are five hard-to-remember steps to do something that would be a key combination in an Omnigroup application.
I’m done being an Accordance advocate. I’m done. [...]
I’ve just come across VUE, Visual Understanding Environment, a cross-platform, open source information manager and mind mapper.
It looks pretty cool (although because these sorts of apps are ported cross-platform, they never really fit in, visually, in Mac OS X).
As I understand it, you can do a regular mind map to organise your research, [...]
Posted in mac stuff, technology on Jul 15th, 2008
… at 8.20am, thinking I’ll pick myself up an iPhone, which is Sally’s present to me for my 30th birthday.
I arrive to find about 50 people in a line which turns out to be for the iPhone. Okay. So the Apple store opens at 8am. Good to know.
I jump in the line and wait. And [...]
Posted in mac stuff, technology on Jun 18th, 2008
Posted in mac stuff, technology on Jun 11th, 2008
Oh, mercy!
Posted in mac stuff, technology on Jun 10th, 2008
If you don’t follow this kind of thing, the second generation of the iPhone was announced last night, our time.
It has some great new features, including GPS (which most people didn’t think it would have), 3G (which everyone knew it would have) and longer battery life (which everyone was hoping it would have).
The best, [...]
Posted in mac stuff on Jun 4th, 2008
Haven’t done this for a while, and people say they appreciate the Mac stuff I post, which is nice, so here are some recommendations.
Design, Coding & Web Dev
GIMP - free, powerful image editor. ImageWell - excellent lightweight image editor with FTP features. I use this every day. FontExplorer X - this is how to manage your fonts [...]
Apologies to those of you who don’t care.
Sam Freney has developed (and is developing) a Hebrew paradigm trainer for Mac: Paradigmatic.
It’s clean-looking and he’s constantly updating. I think this has the potential to be the Hebrew trainer for Mac. I hope it Goes Global.
In a couple of weeks third year Hebrew students have our final exam. It’s the final, final exam, which I think means we’re supposed to know Hebrew by now.
Ouch.
Via Mikey, I’ve been using an excellent paradigm training/testing tool from Animated Hebrew. It has a Shockwave interface, which isn’t very pretty and doesn’t allow for [...]
Posted in mac stuff on May 27th, 2008
Coming soon, apparently. Within the next month.
I do love Apple products, but the Apple stores don’t seem all that different from a sexpo, when you think about it.
(I never thought I’d use the word ’sexpo’ on the blog).
