Yesterday I started a series on my Macintosh applications that I use on a daily basis. When I need to get something done these programs get the job done for me. Today we will pick up the next three categories, after the break
Image Editing
Acorn is the tiny (relatively) program that can. This things has laysers and can export in all the major bitmap formats. I regularly use this app to size images and even crop them if I have to. It has layers, some really good filters. It even support my bamboo tablet, so I can draw with it. When I can’t use Acorn for something, then I break out the Gimp, but Acorn has made me not do that in quite some time.
Office
This is rather interesting situation. I use both of these programs nearly everyday, and I am hard pressed to determine which one is my workhorse. If I had to say which one I could do without that would be iWork. NeoOffice is a Mac Port of OpenOffice. I believe it is a much better port than the OpenOffice port. Planamesa has tried to give the OpenOffice a mac look and feel. What OpenOffice has done is use QT to compile a version for the Mac. It is not really Mac Native in that it does not really follow the Mac look and feel guidelines. NeoOffice is now my OpenOffice.
Browser
Safari
Too much of my workflow is based on the webkit ability to produce webarchives that I can return to time and again. Safari is a webkit based Browser that does that in spades. Safari and EagleFiler together give me a research tool that is indispensable in my teaching as well as my blogging. The new Safari has really upped the performance, especially in 64 bit mode. The only Browser coming close is Chrome, but it is still in beta, and doesn’t support Applescript, which is important for my work flow. When Chrome supports the Applescript, then it will be coming very close to supplanting Safari. Chrome is markedly faster, but that’s because it is doing prefetch. Right now, Safari is the browser I am working with right now.
This is the end of part 2. On Monday I will end this series with the last 4 categories
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