Five Favorite Apps
I’m continually downloading new applications – and I admit, I probably forget about most of them within about ten minutes. But there are some that I’ve stuck with and can’t live without – here five of my favorites.
Times – A unique RSS reader that looks like an actual newspaper. I don’t feel great about the part that scrapes article text and pulls it into the app, but boy is it convenient! Support for Twitter and other social networking services is a nice touch too.
djay – A clean, solid DJ app. It includes neat features like touchpad scratching, iTunes integration, and a sampler, plus staples like the ability to speed up or slow down records without changing pitch, cueing and looping, effects, an equalizer, support for multiple outputs, and recording. There’s no automatic BPM detection and there aren’t as many features in djay as there are in industrial-strength apps like Traktor Pro, but what would you really do with four decks anyway?
Paint.Net – The image editing program Microsoft should’ve included with Windows. It’s easy to use, powerful enough for most of my graphic editing needs at work, and a shining example of good interface design on Windows.
Boxer – A unique DosBox front-end that wraps up your old DOS applications (read: games) into single files that work just like native Mac OS apps. Imagine what would happen Parallels fell through a time warp into 1994 and you’ve got the idea.
Xmarks – The bookmark tool formerly known as Foxmarks, this app lets you store your IE, Firefox, or Safari bookmarks in the cloud for easy access from another browser or the Xmarks website. It also adds its own links to Google searches, but those are easy enough to turn off if you’d like.
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