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.

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