{"id":223,"date":"2005-02-17T22:35:37","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T14:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2005\/02\/2005_02_17_2235.php"},"modified":"2005-02-17T22:35:37","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T14:35:37","slug":"vindicated-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/17\/vindicated-again","title":{"rendered":"Vindicated (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringfireball.net\" title=\"Visit Daring Fireball\">daringfireball<\/a> posted about his top apps and it&#8217;s nice to know that I&#8217;m on the right track in my choices.<\/p>\n<p>He matters to me because first, he wrote the Markdown parsing script which I use in this blog. Second is that if you read his articles, it&#8217;s evident that he is pure Apple. However, he is one of the Mac-heads who still think straight. This simply translates to him knowing the shit from the diamonds &#8211; which is opposite to those who love everything Apple&#8230; <em>especially<\/em> if it&#8217;s from Apple itself. And though one may not agree 100% with what he says all the time, at least on knows his opinions are <em>reasonable<\/em> in any context.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I turn to him for any late breaking Apple stuff, since he usually has a good handle on the whole thing. So with software, he now has his <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2005\/02\/apps_of_the_year_2004\" title=\"Read article\"><em>top applications list,<\/em><\/a> which is listed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interarchy.com\/\" title=\"What is Interarchy?\">Interarchy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/latenightsw.com\/affrus\/\" title=\"What is Affrus?\">Affrus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/scripts\/spamsieve\/\" title=\"What is SpamSieve?\">SpamSieve<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ranchero.com\/\" title=\"What is NetNewsWire?\">BBEdit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And for the <em>honorable mentions<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/index.shtml\" title=\"What is BBEdit?\">NetNewsWire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacktree.com\/\" title=\"What is QuickSilver?\">QuickSilver<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/applications\/omniweb\/\" title=\"What is OmniWeb?\">OmniWeb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!--more-->\n<p>I was glad to find that only two mentioned (which function I needed) was not the same as my choices and of course the others I didn&#8217;t need at all, so they don&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>First was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interarchy.com\/\" title=\"What is Interarchy?\">Interarchy<\/a> for FTPing. Upon reading his post, it seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interarchy.com\/\" title=\"What is Interarchy?\">Interarchy<\/a> would fit well with my workflow since it seems to have combined <a href=\"http:\/\/freshsqueeze.com\/products\/ftpeel\/\" title=\"What is FTPeel?\">FTPeel<\/a>&#8216;s <em>magic-mirror<\/em> feature and whatever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/transmit\/\" title=\"What is Transmit?\">Transmit<\/a> claims to do &#8211; and a lot more. I prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/freshsqueeze.com\/products\/ftpeel\/\" title=\"What is FTPeel?\">FTPeel<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;on demand&#8221; method of using its mirror function than simply &#8220;synchronizing&#8221; since I usually have other extraneous folders in my webserver which I don&#8217;t need mirrored. But of course, I haven&#8217;t tried it, so who&#8217;s to say you can&#8217;t <em>configure<\/em> that particular function.<\/p>\n<p>So, I downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interarchy.com\/\" title=\"What is Interarchy?\">Interarchy<\/a> and will test it tomorrow to see how it fares against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/transmit\/\" title=\"What is Transmit?\">Transmit<\/a>&#8216;s <em>new<\/em> version (which was just released). I really want to put my two FTP apps to rest in favor of one, end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interarchy.com\/\" title=\"What is Interarchy?\">Interarchy<\/a> seems to fit the bill at least in paper. I&#8217;ll know in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>Next was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/applications\/omniweb\/\" title=\"What is OmniWeb?\">OmniWeb<\/a>, which I do not intend to try. Apparently, he&#8217;s a heavy surfer &#8211; (which I am too) but, unlike Mr. Gruber, I&#8217;m not so big on the &#8220;features&#8221; of browsers as far as <em>usability<\/em> is concerned. My standard is simple: as long as it can do tabbed browsing, has decent popup\/ad blocking, and has a configurable search field (for Google and others), and can render pages correctly <em>closest<\/em> to web standards, then I&#8217;m fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\" title=\"What is FireFox?\">Firefox<\/a> fits the bill here, but as per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suplido.com\/joel\/\" title=\"Visit Joel's blog\">Joel<\/a>&#8216;s suggestion, I&#8217;m now using a similar browser called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/camino\/\" title=\"What is Camino?\">Camino<\/a>. Mr. Gruber mentioned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/applications\/omniweb\/\" title=\"What is OmniWeb?\">OmniWeb<\/a> has it&#8217;s share of rendering problems, which automatically meant that I didn&#8217;t want it &#8211; If ever I&#8217;m to use a non-standards compliant browser, then it better be because a whole lot of people use it (e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer) &#8211; and will only be because I have to tailor my websites to those &#8220;commonly used browsers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latenightsw.com\/affrus\/\" title=\"What is Affrus?\">Affrus<\/a>, falls under the &#8220;I don&#8217;t need it as of the moment&#8221; category so naturally, I don&#8217;t have it nor feel the need to have it in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleasantly surprised to find out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ranchero.com\/\" title=\"What is NetNewsWire?\">NetNewsWire<\/a> was his favorite RSS aggregator, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacktree.com\/\" title=\"What is QuickSilver?\">QuickSilver<\/a> as his launcher\/helper app. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/index.shtml\" title=\"What is BBEdit?\">BBEdit<\/a> was sort of a given since it <em>is<\/em> the best, and frankly I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s even competing software [that mattered].<\/p>\n<p>And I was <em>extremely<\/em> glad to find out that my choice of <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/scripts\/spamsieve\/\" title=\"What is SpamSieve?\">SpamSieve<\/a> was the right choice. When I first thought that I needed some serious spam-filtering on my mail, <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/scripts\/spamsieve\/\" title=\"What is SpamSieve?\">SpamSieve<\/a> was the first app I tried because it was the first I came across. And because of the results, I never really felt the urge to try others &#8211; and now with Mr. Gruber&#8217;s information about it, I don&#8217;t think I ever will.<\/p>\n<p>What surprised me though is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/\" title=\"What is VideoLAN VLC?\">VideoLAN VLC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragingmenace.com\/index.html\" title=\"sidetrack\">SideTrack<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reelintelligence.com\/BluePhoneElite\/\" title=\"What is BluePhoneElite?\">BluePhoneElite<\/a> weren&#8217;t in the list &#8211; and of course my personal favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adiumx.com\/\" title=\"What is Adium X?\">AdiumX<\/a> (he probably uses Proteus), but these are subjective so let&#8217;s move right along.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, once again, I feel vindicated \ud83d\ude42<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber of daringfireball posted about his top apps and it&#8217;s nice to know that I&#8217;m on the right track in my choices. He matters to me because first, he wrote the Markdown parsing script which I use in this blog. Second is that if you read his articles, it&#8217;s evident that he is pure &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/17\/vindicated-again\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vindicated (again)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[60,206,435,458,459,592,1025,1075,1203],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-technology","tag-adium-x","tag-camino","tag-firefox","tag-ftp","tag-ftpeel","tag-interarchy","tag-rss","tag-sidetrack","tag-transmit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}