Recent software trials — Camino, Shuffler, GIT, Wisestamp, Microsoft Windows Live Sync
- Firefox is feeling increasingly bloated, maybe because I’ve got a bunch of plugins jammed in. But trying out Camino(TidBITS%3A+Mac+News+for+the+Rest+of+Us)&utm_content=Google+Reader on the Mac, seems cleaner and lighter.
- Shuffler.FM. Eh, streaming music just doesn’t work for me. My primary listening time is while driving and I need music that I can put on an ipod or cd. When I am at an actual computer I am too busy doing other things. But I like music discovery tools and guides, I just don’t want them bound into streaming.
- GIT for the lazy. Perfect for me.
- Terminal tips and tricks for OSX and in general SuperUser seems helpful.
- I want to love WiseStamp but I don’t get email addins that assume you are only sending email from a browser. iPhone? iPad? OSX Mail? How can I commit to this thing if I can’t use it consistently? Sigh.
- I’m super late to Windows Live Sync but it is very useful. I do have a quibble with the naming, once upon a time MSFT was confident enough in its products to give them simple iconic names — Word, Excel, Windows. The company seems to have lost its confidence in products and jams these crazy names on them to try to ride on the coattails of other products. Mistake.
