What I’m using
A couple years ago it was fashionable (for all of a week) for Mac users to post a complete list of applications on their computer. In this way, people were able to pass the word on what nifty, neat, and otherwise peachy keen free/share software that made the MAC experience even more (in the words of Mirabella Magazine, circa 1989), “very.”
I missed that WEB happening. I can’t remember, now, but I’m willing to guess I was packing and or moving at the time.
Anyway, a month or so ago, MacUser and Daring Fireball broke (to me) the news of an application launcher called TODOS.
What TODOS does is give a screen-wide visual image of all the applicaations that are on your computer. It does this by showing you the icons.
Performing this simple action stnads in the best tradition of the Macintosh experience. I say this as one who has had gathered a lot of experience on the system since Apple switched to the UNIX/NExT-based OS X.
My first modern Mac was an 2001 iBook. When I type that, two things spring to mind. 1) The fact that that iBook, long sold off but probably still running, – is and was obsolete long before the 2000 Hyundai I am driving (or soon will be again, since I finally got the flat we’ve ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!). You can’t expect a 2000 GM vehicle to outlast your computer, can you.
2) Since I purchased that computer, I have directly influenced the purchase of Macs by at min. 12 people. That’s an immeasurable increase in only MY demographic.
Anyway, I want to keep up typing, daily. In order to do that, I have to stop myself bringing work home. I really have no work to bring home, it’s true. Not like Gammon or JM has papers or projects to grade. But I manage to bring some something of imponderable weight with me which I should not. I’ve been doing that all week, with the requisite bags appearing by Thurs Eve.
So I took today off, convinced of illness. And I’m striving tonight to catch up on all the Mac stuff I’ve watched flitter by.
So here’s my TODOS picture of all the icons of all my Applications. No I don’t recognize them all. Some are hideous pieces of Java junk that were dumped on my machine by a printer here or there. But it is a pretty picture. The icons, (for God’s sake) the icons are beautiful. Which means work was put in. Which is the whole point of the iPhone and the iPod. The marriage of form and function.
And here’s apparently a Flickr List (tagged with “macusertodos” I think) of other peoples’. And I am off to there, now, to see what other people are using.
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