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Software Used in 2011

Sunday, 25 December 2011

Operating systems: Mac OS X and a little bit of iOS. I keep hearing Ubuntu Linux and Vagrant calling for development work.

Browsers: Chrome slowly became my primary browser mainly due to:

  1. Their developer tools (Alt-Cmd-I),
  2. Syntax-highlighted View Source,
  3. Removing one key press or click from web search (just type it in the address bar and press Return).

Safari and Firefox were used as well, but less and less. Apple and Mozilla (Firefox now has 2 and 3 as defaults—good—but please make 1 a default, too) should copy the above three features of Chrome, now.

Text: Notational Velocity, TextMate, TextEdit, the ChiperSoft fork of the WMD Markdown website text editor, Preview.

Programming languages: JavaScript, Python, some Ruby, some PHP.

Web development, hacking, publishing: Terminal, Pip/Virtualenv/Fabric, wget, Git and GitHub (there’s a revolution happening right now in software), StackOverflow, Django, Textpattern, Wordpress, VMWare Fusion, OS X gcc installer.

Photography: Lightroom (one of the best software applications I’ve ever used. Adobe should learn some lessons from this team. They should also forget about Flash). QuadTone RIP, Photoshop.

Graphic design and layout: InDesign, Illustrator. Why don’t Illustrator and Photoshop support glyph variants like InDesign and TextEdit? It’s almost 2012, Adobe!

File transfer: Transmit, Bittorrent.

Comms: Gmail. Facetime. The shitty SMS ‘application’ of my old Nokia mobile phone, though that should end this coming year. And Skype, though I’m increasingly less happy with it after Microsoft bought it. Interface got worse. Voice and video quality got worse. You now need to register to download the application. Why does everything this company touches get shitty so quickly?

Mind travel: Deus Ex Human Revolution, Brogue, Nethack, VLC, KJAZ via iTunes, still.

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