I’ve always had awkward relationship with music on Mac since the inception. First of all, since day one I realized I’d like a simple, fast, and tiny music player instead of iTunes. David vs Goliath. Too bad it seemed that there just wasn’t one. I searched and couldn’t find anything matching the requirement.

So I listened to music using iTunes. It felt my pain and became even bigger and cumbersome with all these iPhone-related additions. Now iTunes is so much more than a music player so it’s not a music player any more.

I am not an active music listener at all. That is why I beared with iTunes for so long – it just gladly intensified my non-musical being. I’ve recorded music with GarageBand and Logic Express but I just hardly listened to music on my Mac at all.

Until yesterday when I said “fuck that”. I fired up Google search without too much hope and found Vox on VersionTracker. Looks like it just launched but already does the good job.

AleNofx revolutionized playing music on Mac OS X the way Apple itself revolutionized a lot of other things – with a simple and elegant solution.

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I’ve come across the best Twitter client for Mac OS X – Nambu. The biggest difference between it and others is because it’s a native Mac app, not an Adobe Air resource hog.

What’s in it? It’s fast, it’s free, it’s configurable, it has features like retweeting, multiple accounts, saved searches, tracking new tweets, etc. And the last but not the least it’s smooth-looking, and fast! Did I say it’s fast?

It also has support for other services, not only Twitter, but do I care. If you are on a Mac there’s absolutely no reason to not use Nambu. Dump the others. Really. Now. Install Nambu.

Heres another test of iPhone Wordpress. Here I tried to insert an image:

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I wonder how this software can be so buggy but nobodys shouting? Right, because nobody would blog from iPhone.

This is how it looks. It’s a pretty awesome instrument for recording and for occasional taking it with yourself.

You can accuse me of being lazy to write anything worthy and will be right. After publishing my latest work in Russian I had no better things to tell you than that I grew tired of my old design and changed it to quite the contrast one.

Feel free to comment if you are one of the 5 people who might actually incidentally get here.

- Диспетчер?

- Да, путник.

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Panic Coda is the IDE I searched for all these years.

- Fast, lightweight, and elegant;
- Dead-simple, without the overwhelming shit-I’m-lost configuration;
- One window for everything: editing, preview, publishing, documentation, CVS, and SSH.

The only thing I found uneasy about Coda is that the built-in books are unsearchable and hard to use. But I never really imagined that such an IDE can exist at all in the first place, so with a little boy kind of excitement I installed it and am happy to be times as productive as before.

Another software test. Not sure iPhone is any good for blogging though.

I’m testing this Blogo software and have nothing better to say than “Happy New Year!”