TextMate for Windows? Take Your Pick. May 11, 2009
Posted by lesliesrussell in Mac OS X, Software.Tags: alternative, textmate, windows
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One really cool application for Mac OSX that has always caused me to turn green with envy is TextMate. TextMate is a programmer’s editor, and while there are millions of such applications for Windows and Linux, OSX has just the one (to hear the application’s developer and fans tell it). The developer seems to have a rather severe form of a condition common among OSX fanboys—OS bigotry. That silliness aside, TextMate is an enviable piece of well written software. However, based upon what the developer considers TextMate’s most noteworthy features, I found several very useable equivalents, and a few that surpassed the stated feature set.
What I looked at
Only the features listed on the TextMate home page.
What I did not look at
Features that other editors, namely Cream and XEmacs, have that are over and above those listed for TextMate.
Mac Love, Not War: Using “Pages” from Apple’s “iWork ’06″ Suite June 28, 2006
Posted by macenvy in Mac OS X, Software.1 comment so far
Hey, I was just thinking that there isn’t nearly enough ifo available for Pages.
Mac Love, Not War: Using “Pages” from Apple’s “iWork ’06″ Suite:
Apple’s iWork suite is one of the most underestimated and underappreciated pieces of software that many Mac users may not even know they own. Standard equipment on many Macs and available for less than $80, iWork ’06 consists of two programs: Keynote 3 and Pages 2. Between the two of them they provide some of the most user-friendly tools most people will want for creating papers, proposals and school, academic or business presentations.
ConceptDraw VI, and MindManager 6 for Mac the future is NOW! June 22, 2006
Posted by macenvy in GTD, Mac OS X, Software.1 comment so far
One of the things, one of the only things, I miss after my conversion to Mac is MindJets‘s MindManager. So I went looking for a replacement for the Mac. My search turned up apps like MyMind, and OmniOutliner both very powerful and quite useful, but nowhere near the level of usefulness that I got from MindManager.
About two weeks into my search, at which point I must admit I was disheartened at the dearth of brainstorming solutions for Mac, I picked up a copy of Mac Format, a U.K. publication that includes a CD with goodies from the magazine, and got a free copy of ConceptDraw v 3.5.
I was elated. ConceptDraw was almost everything MindManager was, and best of all, this version was free. That beat the snot out of MindManager.
Now there are tons of things I miss; Microsoft Office integration above all, but ConceptDraw is a great solution. Recently ConceptDraw launched ConceptDraw VI. It comes packed with neato little features like: the ability to import and export MicroSoft Visio, and PowerPoint documents, ODBC database connectivity, and a built-in scripting language. It still ain’t MindManager, but since it is being hawked as a MicroSoft Visio alternative it doesn’t have to be.
If what you want is the Superman of flow-charting applications, then ConceptDraw is that and more, but if what you need is somewhere to brainstorm, then have I got good news for you.
Brand new from MindJet, comes MindManager 6 for Mac! Those of you who know MindManager from their pre-enlightenment period, the days when you were a Microsoft Windows user, know that MindManager is an awesome application.
Brainstorming, GTD, e-mail, site-building, writing, blogging, etc. If you can think it; you can do it with MindManager.
Do yourself a favor, especially you writers out there, download the free trials of these apps and really put them through their paces–you won’t regret it.
