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Finally it got settled down with Feedburner. This service actually delivers new posts to email. This easy task didn’t seem to be executed by previously tried services.

Except for that feedburner also provides an overwhelming bunch of useful functionality like embedding interaction in feeds, gathering subscribers statistics, inserting subscribe links and such.

The only thing I slightly dislike is that Feedsmith plugin puts feedburner’s links in the feed to redirect to actual posts. This is probably to count statistics, and I see it as necessary evil.

Thumbs up, Feedburner. Google knew what it did when they acquired the service. Finally, Skalfa blog is equipped with what it needs for a more serious customer communication approach and all product blogs integration.

A cool program from binarynights. A convenient and fast two-panes file manager with FTP client. Tabs, favorites (where you can also store FTP links), anything you need from a file manager.

Requires some time to get used to, especially when you migrate from Windows software (like Total Commander) but ok for extensive use. Really worth $29.95

I have got the new shiny Mac for almost 3 weeks now. Please, bear my childish rumblings, this is the first Macintosh I put my dirty hands on.

Configuration:
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667 DDR2 - 2×1GB SO-DIMMs
160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm
MacBook Pro 17-inch Widescreen Display
Logic Express preinstalled

I just tried to assemble the most powerful machine of what was in stock at that time. Plus I purchased Logic Express for music recording (more about that later).

Right from the start when you see the shining black paper pack, everything apple starts shouting at you “‘Sup kid! Too good for you, huh?” Every single detail in it including wires and packing are too damn good to be with a serial product. I would bet they were all hand-crafted.

When you load it first time, installer, MacOS X interfaces, effects, screen are as if they just came from an art exhibition.
Sure, Apple guys need to show wonders to back that price

MacOS X made me remember Unix again, particularly by mounting disk images, filesystems, and hardware. Tiger looks and performs like KDE sold its soul to become what it desperately dreamed to be.

At the first shot OS X sometimes feels clumsy because of my PC habits, especially when you have your shortcuts engraved in your mind but after a week when almost all necessary software is installed and configured, I started realizing Steve Jobs was up to something with all those seem-to-be-unnecessary bells and whistles. First, I was even going to write somewhat negative review about OS X, but in the process of step-by-step Bill exodus I’m more and more sure that I’m not going to ever change this kind of performance and user interface tools back to the rusted path of micro-guys.