Marc Charbonneau’s Blog

I started using ExpanDrive today, a SFTP application that uses MacFUSE to access a remote server in Finder. There was a good review of it a few weeks ago at Daring Fireball, and I’ve been hearing good things from several other developers.
The appeal of ExpanDrive is that it “just works;” you don’t have to worry [...]

Congratulations to Omni Group for the latest release of OmniGraffle earlier this week. I haven’t had a chance to use it much yet, but it seems like an impressive release in terms of features and improvements, as well as taking advantage of new Leopard only technologies.
Omni applications have always had great attention to detail, which [...]

I’ve tried several task management tools in the past (including Leopard’s new systemwide tasks system and Anxiety) but I’ve never been able to find one that really matched the way I work. Lately I’ve been using Things, and it’s come closer than anything else I’ve tried in the past. I like the way tasks are [...]

Get it here. NetNewsWire is a great RSS reader, and I probably would have bought a license back when it was shareware if I hadn’t been waiting for Mail.app’s RSS support in Leopard.

APE is a big reason why I never bothered installing LCC when I moved to Leopard. If you’re not familiar with APE, have a look at Daring Fireball and the TextMate Blog for a few reasons why you probably don’t want it installed on your system.
Anyhow, from reading the MacUpdate comments it looks like LCC [...]

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Anxiety is a new lightweight task management tool that uses the systemwide task API in Leopard. Simple to use, good looking design, and freeware; I like it.

Just a quick update for anyone who bought (or is thinking about buying) the new iPod Classic or iPod Nano. I picked one up last week, and it works great with Runner’s Log; no updates needed. Keep in mind that this only applies to the Stopwatch application. The Nike+ won’t work until the next version [...]

Great addition for anyone who uses Smart Playlists to filter songs by albums, rather than the individual song rating. I used to have an (unreleased) Cocoa application to make playlists using the average album rating (along with play count and other attributes), it looks like I won’t need that anymore.

I’ve been using a case sensitive filesystem on my Macs for a few years now, and up until today I would have never, ever thought that this would cause a problem with a non-beta application. Especially a major application like Photoshop CS3 (that’s heavily used by web designers working on servers with case sensitive filesystems, [...]