Wishlist of Mac apps

WISHLIST of Mac apps that I found very useful and good stuff but that are commercial:

iComment $9,95 (€6.75)
Blogo $25 (€16.95)
myNotes $14.59 (€10)
iShowU $20 (€13.55) (demo works fine but the green letters saying demo are distracting)
Audio Hijack Pro $32 (€21.68)
Giggles for mac (3) $19.99 each (€13.55)
Parallels Desktop for mac €79.99
Mac OS Leopard €129
Adobe CS Design
-premium €2420
-standard €1540 (still a high price)
Cepstral Voices (Spanish: Marta) $29.99 (This one I've already bought but don't know why it sounds cutted like a bad connection call)
iSoftphone €35 (still can't make the demo to work with my VoIP provider)

Using Pages and Keynote

What can I say about this two pearls? I'm impressed.

Not only because they are nicer, easier and more friendly than MS Office Suite, but all the templates are good looking and simple at the same time. And one very important thing: both Pages and Keynote open very quickl, even when opening big *.doc format documents.

I didn't give a try to iWork when I bought my Mac, I had too many *.doc documents, and received so many (very annoying and wasting-time) powerpoint slides, that I didn't even considered the Apple's app.

Then, 2 or 3 months ago, I needed to redesign my portfolio and my CV. So I turned my eyes to iWork and started from scratch. Using a template in Keynote, I was able to finish my portfolio in 3 hours (I'm a 8-year experienced architect and have a lot of images of work). And then again, using another template in Pages, I was able to complete the CV in less than 30 minutes.

And there was more!!! A month ago, I needed my portfolio again, but has to be short one, the best projects, no more than 12 pages. I grabbed my last portfolio from Keynote, but really looking at it, I didn't like the theme, so I tried and changed it to a more sober and white theme. Almost everything was kept in place (I did some tweaking at the basic slides) and I only selected the pages I wanted to delete. Finished in no more than 20 minutes.

Now I find myself quickly opening all the *.docs in the clean interface of Pages, and avoiding the slow opening of Word and it's cluttered interface. I'm seriously thinking to unistall Office. Pages can export to *.doc, and other formats as well. I suposse Numbers can export to Excel format (although I have no need for it right now), and I guess that Keynote can open all those powerpoints that I never see.

See you.

Blogging with Blogo

This post, and also the previous one, have been published using Blogo, an application for mac that helps you to post entries to one or various blogs, easily, even with images.
Its description in iusethis gave me curiosity and decided to test it. To download the demo one must register, and the demo works for 17 days.
For which I go using, I have to admit that is a quite useful program, for whom have various blogs that are dedicated to different things, or that are different because admits Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad and Movable Type.
In Preferences, in Accounts, all the blogs can be added to handle. And then in the Blogo window (Create/Edit) at the side of the entry title, a cascade menu appears that says in which of the various blogs you will be publishing. It also lets you use HTML "snippets" or "widgets" as the embedded Youtube videos or embedded Flickr photos and other sites.
I think this is one of the nicest apps I have tested these days. I love my mac.

iWeb again....

Yesterday I was using iWeb, to bring up to date the family site. And playing around to publish the blog entries in Facebook, I found me with the surprise that the file rss.xml, also brings failures of publication. I'm referring to the same errors of linking that presented the RSS link of the blog's homepage. It appears always a "ghost folder" that refers to the folder in which the site is published inside the mac. But, at least me, when publishing to the web through FTP, I do not upload the folder where iWeb publishes it, but I upload the files directly to root directory ( / ). This is why that problem always appears to me and I always have to erase (in Textwrangler) that "ghost folder". That means I have to do the same thing with the files rss.xml that are the ones that serve to the feeders and news readers.
Surpassed that matter, all works perfectly in the site, although thinking about it, I believe I am going to have to upload the whole folder to avoid the juggling of erasing the funny "ghost folder".