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.

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.

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!”

CSS code:


.float_half_left
{
width: 50%;
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
}


In this example width: 50% doesn’t work in IE7. But it starts working when you do these changes:


div.float_half_left
{
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
width: 50%;
}


Happy CSSing

WriteRoom is a piece of software for writing.

That’s actually it. It’s dead simple and it offers you the most productive environment to write – blank screen with your text. No distraction, no “features” to clutter up sourrounding space. Imagine you go to a quiet closet with only a sheet of paper and a pen.

When I installed it my first question was how someone can sell such a minimalistic word processor. The answer came after 3 minutes of writing – because it works with you on the right vibe. In 2 days I found out that WriteRoom doesn’t only remove nuisance, it actually helps writing. I found myself easily getting through my usual writing hiccups such as not being able to write for more than 20-30 minutes, rewrites, and reorganization. A writer can understand how much this means to productivity, in some cases it can have boolean effect on the result – if the work is ever finished or abandoned.

Even for an occasional writer such as myself I found WriteRoom making big difference. No wonder that pros go for it. Putting WriteRoom on top of my must-have pieces of software to install.

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

You will laugh but being CEO, I often edit HTML code myself in good old vim (actually gVim, a Windows version) when building up sketches or changing production website pages.

Today I finally made myself research how to configure that mad gVim autoindenting when editing files. After looking it up in Google, I found how to remove the autoindenting at all. But that wasn’t exactly what I was seeking. Autoindening feature in Vim is ok, it just has insane shiftwidth, like 8 characters. At the point of giving up I actually RTFM and in usr_30.txt of the manual I found how to change it. For that you need to have a line like this:

set autoindent shiftwidth=2

in your vimrc file.

Now I’ll stop deleting all the extra tabs every time I go new line. Now that I defeated this fatal, very personal mental defect, I’m going to become a calm and sociable person, promise.

:wq