Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Running and Spunning, part 2
- My mother callled me yesterday just to brag about how fast her new G5 iMac is. Well, that, and she couldn't figure out how to remove Dashboard widgets from the screen (hmm, I vaguely remember pointing out in my initial review of Tiger that this was going to be a problem for a lot of users), but mainly just to brag about how fast her G5 iMac is. I don't know if that makes me more want to run out and grab myself a new G4 PowerBook, or less. The thought of something faster? Yippee. The thought of another G4 laptop? Meh. Come on Steve, give me something to chew on next week at WWDC.
- How much of a piece of crap is Dreamweaver? The spell-check function not only flagged "blogging" as not being a word today, it suggested that I should instead use the word "logging" in its place. Alright, maybe this isn't a fair criticism, seeing as how "blogging" is a fairly new word and MX 2004 is more than a year old now, but gee whiz, Dreamweaver is just an awful, awful piece of software. I'm fortunate in that I can generally grab the basic concept of a piece of software and get it more or less doing what I want it to, whether it be consumer-level or pro, fairly quickly. But three years and two books later, I'm still wrestling with Dreamweaver on a daily basis, just trying to get it to act like a real app. I guess there's no such a book that make a piece of software not crappy.
- Thank goodness Adobe is buying Macromedia. Adobe does some pretty stupid things as a company on a fairly regular basis, and it's entirely Adobe's fault that the original version of MacOS X was held up for nearly two years before it was finally released, but at least Adobe knows how to make functional software that isn't just a game of "Where's Waldo" when it comes to finding features, with so many bugs that you have to watch where you walk. The kicker, of course, is that prior to hearing of the buyout, I was considering switching to Adobe's web design software. Macromedia's Dreamweaver has about 85 percent of the web design market while Adobe's own GoLive (or whatever it's called, it's that obscure) has a bit less. So unless its ego gets the best of it, Adobe will probably keep the Dreamweaver name around and officially kill off its own product. Best case scenario: the next version of Dreamweaver looks a whole lot more like GoLive than it does Dreamweaver (in other words, Dreamweaver finally becomes a functional product instead of a turd). Worst case scenario: Adobe kills off GoLive and doesn't fix what's fundamentally wrong with Dreamweaver (in which case I'll likely take a good long look at alternatives such as Freeway).
- Even though I've already got the greatest staff in the world, the iPod Garage family is looking to get even larger. This time, we're looking to add a comedian to our staff of weekly columnists. No, not "comedian" in the sense that he's running around Headquarters putting whoopee cushions on our chairs. "Comedian" in the sense that he (she? it?) can write a weekly column that's one part informative and two parts funny. If you think that might be you, you can find out more here.
- I've changed my mind, and I'm now going to keep using the word "Spunning" until someone does write in about it.
- Come to think of it, I wonder what Dreamweaver's spell-check would think of the word "Spunning"? Knowing Dreamweaver, it would probably suggest that I use "logging" instead.
- My mother callled me yesterday just to brag about how fast her new G5 iMac is. Well, that, and she couldn't figure out how to remove Dashboard widgets from the screen (hmm, I vaguely remember pointing out in my initial review of Tiger that this was going to be a problem for a lot of users), but mainly just to brag about how fast her G5 iMac is. I don't know if that makes me more want to run out and grab myself a new G4 PowerBook, or less. The thought of something faster? Yippee. The thought of another G4 laptop? Meh. Come on Steve, give me something to chew on next week at WWDC.
- How much of a piece of crap is Dreamweaver? The spell-check function not only flagged "blogging" as not being a word today, it suggested that I should instead use the word "logging" in its place. Alright, maybe this isn't a fair criticism, seeing as how "blogging" is a fairly new word and MX 2004 is more than a year old now, but gee whiz, Dreamweaver is just an awful, awful piece of software. I'm fortunate in that I can generally grab the basic concept of a piece of software and get it more or less doing what I want it to, whether it be consumer-level or pro, fairly quickly. But three years and two books later, I'm still wrestling with Dreamweaver on a daily basis, just trying to get it to act like a real app. I guess there's no such a book that make a piece of software not crappy.
- Thank goodness Adobe is buying Macromedia. Adobe does some pretty stupid things as a company on a fairly regular basis, and it's entirely Adobe's fault that the original version of MacOS X was held up for nearly two years before it was finally released, but at least Adobe knows how to make functional software that isn't just a game of "Where's Waldo" when it comes to finding features, with so many bugs that you have to watch where you walk. The kicker, of course, is that prior to hearing of the buyout, I was considering switching to Adobe's web design software. Macromedia's Dreamweaver has about 85 percent of the web design market while Adobe's own GoLive (or whatever it's called, it's that obscure) has a bit less. So unless its ego gets the best of it, Adobe will probably keep the Dreamweaver name around and officially kill off its own product. Best case scenario: the next version of Dreamweaver looks a whole lot more like GoLive than it does Dreamweaver (in other words, Dreamweaver finally becomes a functional product instead of a turd). Worst case scenario: Adobe kills off GoLive and doesn't fix what's fundamentally wrong with Dreamweaver (in which case I'll likely take a good long look at alternatives such as Freeway).
- Even though I've already got the greatest staff in the world, the iPod Garage family is looking to get even larger. This time, we're looking to add a comedian to our staff of weekly columnists. No, not "comedian" in the sense that he's running around Headquarters putting whoopee cushions on our chairs. "Comedian" in the sense that he (she? it?) can write a weekly column that's one part informative and two parts funny. If you think that might be you, you can find out more here.
- I've changed my mind, and I'm now going to keep using the word "Spunning" until someone does write in about it.
- Come to think of it, I wonder what Dreamweaver's spell-check would think of the word "Spunning"? Knowing Dreamweaver, it would probably suggest that I use "logging" instead.
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