so i guess i was kind of obligated to at least try the demo again for keyboard maestro after the author commented on that post.

haven’t fully worked with it yet, but i can tell you that the “program switcher” feature is worth the entire cost of registration.

i remember when i made the jump from dos to windows the pain of leaving behind some of my favorite software. borland’s sidekick, superkey and another program called on-time which was a calendar/reminder type program. all three of those were tsr’s. i got over that eventually, although it took a long time before a really gook keyboard/mouse macro program came along for windows.

i won’t run through all the windows programs that i really like, you can always hit the archives for that, but this brings me to feeling the pain from moving from windows to mac.

i don’t miss stardock’s objectdock, because there’s a mac program called ‘drag thing’ which is just as good. i miss windowblinds a little bit, but i found i wasn’t changing the skins very often anyway.

i don’t miss microsoft’s onenote anymore now that i found notebook. evernote is ok and i use it, but it’s not notebook.

i use the builtin mac stickies utility but somebody really needs to write one that can do what notezilla does (the abiity to pin a note to a specific application/window).

if there’s a good keyboard/mouse program for the mac i haven’t found it yet. basically it needs to do what a combination of automater and keyboard maestro can do.

i’ll write about editors (again) in a separate blog

just upgraded on my mac book pro. seems faster… a few extension i would like to have worked, didn’t. there’s no excuse for the google extension not to have been updated.

the extension i use the most is probably “outside bar”, it hasn’t been updated in ages… might have to live without that one.

and the adblock guys need to get their thumb out

a few weeks ago i updated some friends of mine with the news that i’d dumped windows and bought a mac book pro. the reply from one of them was “so you’re a mac fanboy now”.

i didn’t mention it, but i thought that was funny, because way back when the three of us used to own amigas and we were pretty rabid about that OS. the magazines liked to call us us “the vocal amiga crowd”, but what it came down to was that we were rabid amiga fans this was during the time when ms-dos was the main OS or the windows 3.0 people would argue that it was an OS too.

i used OS/2 for a few years, till the day IBM started advertising nt4 for their new systems. had the beos guys pulled their collective thumbs out i might still be using that os, but the linux people got their act together first, so that was my main OS.

one thing is for sure i was never a windows fanboy. i did buy an actual copy of windows 95, later bought custom pc with win98 on it, which i used for a few months before putting windows 2000 on it. took me a long time to upgrade to XP, but i used that on a desktop and a toshiba laptop.

first time i ever used a mac was a 512k machine back in ‘84 i think the various computer magazines called them “fat macs” because it had 512k instead of 256k. i remember playing “stock exchange” on it, and that it’s still the best stock exchange style simulation i’ve ever played. came on a 3.5″ floppy.

now that i actually own a mac, i’m getting the thrill of using a new computer with new and different software all over again. i’ve only ever had that with the amiga and os/2 and not quite so much with os/2.

it probably took me less than three weeks to find all the equivalent software i liked on windows… and the mac versions are, no surprise here, better.