Something Good
Posted on: May 29, 2006I always like to get things done better. I was playing around with some more blog editor software today. I tried ecto for Windows, and found it to be an awful disappointment. I really wanted to like it after all the raves I heard, but those were from Mac OS X users—and apparently they have something a lot more elegant + efficient = excellent. ecto for Windows crashed and burned on me, wouldn't let set up an account properly, had a persistent trial splash screen that took ages to go away, etc. My day's anti-gratifying experience!
I used to be a big Mac advocate back in the mid-90s. But shortfall of wallet caught up to me. So it's been primarily PCs ever since. (I sometimes fantasize about making a glorious return.) It's refreshing, but frustrating, to realize in a sea of software, there are superior programs which are ONLY for Mac. Consider DEVONthink for information management and OmniOutliner for, well, outlining! What chafes me even more is that both of them have Universal Binary versions that run on Intel Macs… but no Windows versions. Well, it's an incentive.
Zoho Writer's down for maintenance right now. Hope it'll be alright, I was doing some doc editing and found intolerable slowdowns upon doing commands. Writely's still up, and I've been using it more, getting more used to the way it works. It's not as web-friendly as Zoho is, in the sense of preparing blog entries with embedded images and hypertext etc., but I greatly prefer Writely's document view because it feeds my familiarities with Gmail. Being able to star and archive documents is nice. However, I still can't find where to file a bug report, and the forums seem underused. Ah, I'll take a stab anyway.
The title of this entry is a reference to Utah Saints's early-nineties "stadium techno" hit. Especially, the heavenly piano arps that float in at 5:08 min.
