Software

This is a very broad topic but here I outline my current favorites and picks in a world full of crappy software. I am big on usability and on software standards which you can see by noting these pages are validated against the XHTML 1.0 and CSS standards - see the icons below.

I've been programming and using computers since the mid '70s - so I have seen many operating systems come and go. Sadly most of my favorites seem to go while the Redmond offerings just seem to keep lumbering on. For the record, I loved my Amiga greatly and AmigaDOS was so advanced - I don't think most people understood how good it really was. After that I fought the evil-empire by supporting IBM's OS/2 - Warp which was also pretty good even if it needed megs and megs of RAM to do what my Amiga did with 512K. Sadly for work I must live in the Windows 2000/XP universe.

It is official - I am a PodPerson! Not only does our family now sport 4 iPods but 2 Macs as well - my first Mac (a fantastic first generation MacBook) has been handed down and replaced with an even more fantastic Macbook Pro.

Mac OS/X Leopard is the coming version of the OS due any damn day... and sure to surpass the current superb version (Tiger). I attened an Apple Developers Conference ealier this year - and what I saw there blew me away... By the way most of the Mac OS/X is based on work done by Steve Jobs and his Next Computer (perhaps I should have suported NeXT too in the old days).

This just in! I am trying out a new (well, to me anyway) website all-in-one package by Panic (authors of Transmit below) - named Coda. Editing, previews, CSS and ftp all in one well-thought-out package. This is tres cool... added it to my desktop already.

My current favorites are the ones I used to revamp this website and are all Mac OS/X apps: