I’ve had it with Firefox on Mac OS X. On Windows, it’s fine, but on Mac OS X it’s unbearable. It crashes too often, it’s slow and sluggish all the time, and it just eats up my RAMPut it this way: when I quit Firefox, my RAM usage goes way down. Way down.. So I’m trying something new — I’m using a nightly build of WebKit.
I started thinking about switching when I read [an article …
A while back I listed my wishlist for Google Notifier, and one of them was the lack of Growl support — instead they use a home-grown one that reinvents the wheel, so to speak.
Fortunately, someone created Gmail+Growl for Google Notifier, a Google Notifier plugin that replaces the built-in notifications with Growl notifications.
So that’s one item off that list. The only other one is support for Google Reader, but the Gmail+Growl software apparently is a “plugin” …
I just downloaded MarsEdit and I’m giving it a trial run. I’m just finding the WordPress admin a bit… web-like. I’ve probably stared at those shades of blue a little too much.
So far so good. The setup wizard which popped up the first time I opened MarsEdit was extremely simple — one dialog for the blog name and URL, another for the username and password, and I was good to go. The interface is very …
Jealous of Microsoft Outlook users’ system tray icon notifying them of new messages, I’ve begun using Google Notifier to help sate this jealousy.
After hearing much buzz about it, I decided to take CSSEdit for a test run. I don’t know — maybe I’m just stupid or something — but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to do anything. The only thing I could actually figure out how to do was to edit the source by hand, which I can do easily enough in TextMate.
I suppose I’ll start looking through the help readings, but …
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