A Special Place in My Hard Drive
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I saw a great sig file at the bottom of a newsgroup posting once that said “Don’t anthropomorphize computers: they hate that.” and yet undeniably we form attachments. There are certain applications that I’ve become very attached to and couldn’t imagine life without.
BBEdit, Photoshop, Movable Type, NetNewsWire, iTunes and my new browser of choice Chimera all occupy a special place on my hard drive.
Add to the list Transmit 2 from Panic, the new version of their superb FTP app. If you’re using OS X and are looking for a better-than-good way to move files around, look no further.
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Posted to Computers • 2002.10.24 (Thu) • 18:02
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Posted by Nicklas 2002.10.25, 07:03
That’s my list! (apart from MT, which I only admire from a distance.) Have the strong emotional attachments anything to do with the computing platform, I ask rethorically…
Posted by Mary Beth 2002.10.25, 11:10
BBEdit is my special friend. I was once forced to work long, hateful, solitary hours on some sort of windows box with, I kid you not, 62 MB RAM and Windows 95. Uh huh. You want web design, you say. Anyway, I was able to take a long breath when a kind friend suggested a PC-equivalent of BBE. Phew. BBEdit. Saves my butt countless times.
iTunes….. but of course.
Posted by Mary Beth 2002.10.25, 11:13
Oh wait - I wanted to say one word
Eudora.
Can’t live without it.
Posted by jh 2002.10.25, 12:36
Nicklas — I’m much less of a Mac bigot than I was even a few years ago! You wouldn’t wanted to have known me then. It’s certainly not something I’m willing to argue about anymore, having settled comfortably into the whatever-floats-your-boat school of platform determinism (despite the Mac’s obvious superiority ;-).
What I love about the items on the list (and there are plenty more things that should be included, too) is the quality of thinking that’s gone into shaping the tools.
Mary Beth — I used Eudora for years and years and, yes, it should be on that list. I wish it still was, but I got so pissed off with Qualcomm and the way they were treating it that I couldn’t stick with it. It was a very reluctant decision.
I’m using Mail.app now. Its shortcomings are legion, but the spam filtering is mind-blowingly good (better than anything else I’ve seen).
John Gruber wrote to me pointing out that Transmit 2 currently lacks support for “Open with BBEdit…” which I didn’t even notice was missing from this latest version. Apparently it will be reinstated ASAP, which I’m mighty relieved to here. How easily we forgive the foibles of those we love!
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