drinking the kool-aid

[rone]

One of the things i requested at my new job was that my corporate-issue laptop be a Mac (partly because i was damned if i was going to get stuck with a stinkin' Dell).  After some wrangling with the CFO, my request was granted, so now i have in my possession a 15" PowerBook with a gig of RAM.  I also have a Kyocera KPC650 EVDO card.  I've installed Camino and Firefox, and i downloaded all 800+MB of the developer tools just so i could have gcc kicking around (which i used to build screen, which i configured and compiled with zero hitches).

I like it.  The display is crisp and things work, once you get used to the idea of trying stuff that you know would have never worked in Windows.  It's a damn sight better to use than the GNOME-RedHat desktop i got (which keyboard [DAMN YOU, DELL!] already triggered both tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome in my left arm — after 3 damn days of work!).

In summary, all computers suck, but the Mac seems to suck less.  Huzzah.

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[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

One app I've found I use more than any other? LaunchBar.

Some people claim that QuickSilver does what it does, but it really doesn't. LB allows you to find/launch/open ANYTHING on your machine by hitting cmd-space and then typing the first letter or two of what you want.

It is blazingly fast, and completely unobtrusive. You can decide what it indexes and what it doesn't. And it allows you instant access to any app/song/whatever on your machine (you can configure what it indexes). I don't know how it does it, and how it remains so stable, but it does.

http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

Also, try Yojimbo.

http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/index.shtml