6:55p.m. Software of the Year

So, everyone is doing their year-in-reviews.

I’m going to do one on Mac software, mostly because I can’t think of anything else to post about.

The Good

• Leopard

  Of course the highlight of the year. Oh. So. Sexy.

• iWork ‘08

  Has totally replaced the old version of Office for me. Yay to having all universal apps! I find it hard to believe I’m going to go out of my way to buy the upcoming universal binary Office. I’d have to need to for a specific task first.

• Anxiety

  The answer for to-do lists for those of us who generally don’t use to-do lists. Also gorgeous.

• Twitterrific

  Might be not be free anymore, but if you have a Mac and use Twitter, its totally worth it.

• Candybar 3

  Makes Leopard look even better. Indispensable.

The Eh

• iLife ‘08

  The fact is there is just not that much of a difference if all you use of iLife is iPhoto. I have a feeling there are a bunch of us out there.

• Time Machine

  Awesome in concept. Lack of decent AirDisk support is just a pain in the ass. I will most likely be a much bigger fan once I’ve got my external drive hooked up to a desktop computer so I can actually use it wirelessly.

• SPSS 16 (Mac)

  Necessary for grad school but a usability nightmare. Fugly.

• TaskPaper

  Lovely app idea, just doesn’t work right for me. Totally replaced by Anxiety, above.

5:19a.m. Automatic iPhone Video Conversion with VisualHub

Everything I could possibly say about the iPhone has been said. Its an amazing phone and I am addicted to mine.

So the other night I made an automator workflow that can have the wonderful mac application VisualHub automatically convert any video files to iPhone compatible video.

Obviously, to use this, you’re going to have to have a mac with at least Tiger, and a copy of VisualHub.

I should also perhaps say that I have no experience writing tutorials, so this may or may not work for you. This is what worked for me… so hopefully it’ll work for you, too! :)

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