The iPhone that never sleep

Mobile Blogging from here.

I like my iPhone, the apps and games are wonderful. But I can only realize the true power after subscribing to a data plan.

See the above? I can now blog at anywhere, locate myself at any time and what's more is to get the latest information on the road.

But are we not getting connected enough? Now, other devices, such as the digital camera or portable gaming console, can also gain access to the net.

I wonder when would we feel exhausted in sending update to our friends round the clock.

Before that, I will enjoy the using of my iPhone. :)

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

ForkLift

There are several apps which I come back and forth and deciding if it fits into my usage pattern.

ForkLift is one of them.

The first thing to intrigues me in using it is the 2 panel display. I've been grown up from the DOS and Norton Commander is my preferred way of file manipulation. There are several offering of apps on the Mac platform that enable this but I like ForkLift in several way.

First, I can create "Groups" on the left panel. For instance, I can crete a new group for work and drag all work folder as a short cut. Then, there's a built-in app delete tools. I can remove application that I no longer needed easily. Also, the lower panel provides information that I need at times, one of them is the size of the folder. And the integrated "Connect" capability let me transfer file to my remote server in the same application.

Yet, there are some features which I want. I use terminal a lot, and I hope there's a short cut to let me open a terminal and change location to there. Alternative, it would be nice if they provide a shortcut key to copy the filepath.

I've mentioned I like the "Connect" option but I couldn't find a protocol that I used a lot - SAMBA. When I need to connect to the SAMBA share, I need to do it in Finder and switch it back to ForkLift.

I've found it can be bought in a discount from MuPromo. Go check it out.

Product Promotion - Learn Objective-C on the Mac

There are several website that offers daily deals which I will check everyday, Apress is one of them and today, they are offering a one day promotion on the above mentioned book.

You can own the ebook of "Learn Objective-C on the Mac" for US$10 (regular price is US$27.99).

Product Promotion - Timeline 3D

I love MacWorld, definitely because of the keynote by Apple (sad that it's gonna be the last one this year) for the new product announcement. Apart from that, vendors will usually offer special promotion in this period.

Today, I came across a very nice offer from BeeDocs. They are offering a big discount on their flagship product - Timeline 3D, which usually cost $65, is now offering to user at a special price of US$30.

I tried this once sometimes ago and love it. But I encounter some problem in using it, which Andy reply to me promptly and turns out it is the driver from Logitech that break the software (to be precise, that driver render Growl from working properly).

If you need to draw some timeline, go grab it before it goes away.

BeeDocs

Software I have purchased in 2007

Some people like to buy clothes and I definitely have a desire to buy good software. Be it commercial software, or shareware, I would get myself a license as long as I find it useful.

1. Springy
   
2. BetterZip
   
3. PulpMotion
   
4. HTTP Scoop
   
5. Connected Flow - Aperture Plugin
   
6. Connected Flow - iPhoto Plugin
   
7. Sticky Window
   
8. PDF Studio
   
9. Coda
   
10. Parallels
    
11. Oxygen XML Editor (include the license for SVNClient)
    
12. VMWare Fusion
    
13. Screen Recycler
    
14. iLife 2008
    
15. iWorks 2008
    
16. Keynote Pro - Eclipse Pro
    
17. Graphic Converter 6.0 upgrade
    
18. Fission
    
19. Write Room
    
20. VMWare Workstation 6.0 for Linux
    
21. 1Password
    
22. IntelliJ 7.0
    
23. Mac OS X 10.5
    
24. MarsEdit 2.0 upgrade
    
25. TheMacPak
    

The heavily used application

With OS excluded, I still have a couple of candidate.
VMWare Fusion, iWorks, Connected Flow Aperture Plugin, 1Password. This one is tough so there will be two winners - VMWare Fusion and 1Password. You can find both application running on my mbp everyday, my development work rely very much on VMWare and 1Password could help me to manage the password for the different kind of account I am having.

The worst investment

There's several of them, TheMacPak, Screen Recycler, Parallels and Oxygen XML Editor. But if I have to pick one, it will go to Parallels. I bought it even before it ships, it works OK but definitely resources hog. Besides, I am so used to VMWare that I jumped right into it when they have the mac version ready. Sometimes, I should just wait and decide.

The bang of the bucks

Springy. It's very useful, especially with the context menu integration. The good thing is, it even works with JAR files, that helps me to navigate through the java library which I need to tackle in development work.

The interesting candidate

Apart from the application above, I would also like to mention a service which I used a lot over the year. I purchase the stock photo and vector graphics which I used in presentation from iStockphoto. They used to be quite cheap ($10 for 10 credit) but have increased the price recently. Still, they offer a wide range of quality photos that could liven up the boring presentation.