View from the Dock

Just a few short hours after I posted my WordPress review, version 2.5 was released. Of course this is a very major update, and of course my review is for version 2.3 (the prior version — there is no 2.4).
The new release offers, among other improvements: simpler plugin updating, easier gallery creation, a much better [...]

This is the third in a four part series comparing WordPress with RapidWeaver (and speaking of RapidWeaver, don’t miss the comment from a lead RW developer on that review).
In this episode, I’m going to take a look at WordPress, a blog publishing system for Mac, PC, or Linux. I’m assuming that most people who [...]

I’ve been under the weather, so I just learned that Adobe launched a public beta of Express yesterday. It’s an online photo editing application with a couple of free Gigabytes of storage. It was first demonstrated last September.
It’s pretty slick. It’ll be interesting to see how Picnik, Splashup, Snipshot, Phixr, Preloadr, and Pixenate (among other [...]

Here are two apps that recently caught my interest:
1. Iguania:
I heard about Iguania while listening to Adam Christianson’s MacCast, which is incidentally one of the best general-interest Mac podcasts out there. Iguania is a novel application to edit your photos without all of those popup boxes and sliders. Instead, you use the keyboard to select [...]

A few posts back I described my experience trying to create a workflow to automate the process of exporting my Delicious Library (DL) catalog to LibraryThing (LT).
Here is the Automator workflow I created: open up Delicious Library, export the book catalog (an XML file) to my desktop, copy the location path of this newly created [...]

I just read about LinkBack, an open source framework sponsored by Nisus Software that’s been around since 2005. I guess I’m a little late to the game, but I thought I’d share it in case you’ve never heard of it. Right now, 22 applications support it.
LinkBack is best described with an example: Suppose you [...]