cross-platform blogs

Everyone knows the value of improving your workflow. Well it turns out I work a whole lot faster on a Mac, both in web development and web design. I think the OSX developers must have thought a great deal about workflow, because Mac has a lot of great features: from much more drag-and-drop integration between programs than windows, to little things like the mouse command to fly out all windows or show the desktop (this saves me so much time). But workflow on a Mac goes much deeper than these features. Web development is great on a Mac, since the programs you need for coding run very quickly and the terminal is really handy for doing lots ... (more...)

Well I finally broke down and bought a brand new MacBook®. I'm a lifetime PC user, but with the CS3 beta looking pretty nice, I decided that it was time to make the cross-over. Now, I've always been able to use a Mac but I love being able to really learn the OS like you can only do when you own a machine (I'm always a little more careful if it doesn't belong to me ;) ) The adjustment to MacOSX has been surprisingly easy. I'm really liking the OS actually, especially dragging programs from the .dmg file to the applications folder to install them, and being able to save preference changes without restarting applications. It's so much easier! Also ... (more...)