Big Wide World

it's official. i am completely in love with my mac, and will never again buy a pc. she's quite the minx, my mac. it took no time to make me play for the other team. after a 15 year love affair with my pcs, it took less than two weeks to leave my love/hate relationship and become forever in love with my mac.

and, i have found some great applications to make it even better. my two favourites though, i have to mention.

the first, is a freeware application called OnLife. This is an awesome program. basically, what it does is it keeps track of a lot of your activities on the mac (such as firefox, safari, word, emails, what you read etc).


it catalogs these activities by day (with the dots that you see), and you can later select if you want to see the activities by day, or thumbnail, or graph.

its an awesome program for me, b/c i will remember the day that i saw or viewed something, but i won't remember it by name. i remember what it looked like, and the thumbnail option allows me to see, for example, the sites that i visited (it even tells you how much time you spent doing a particular actitivity. i highly suggest you check it out if you have a mac, and you want to keep track of what you did. i keep it in my dock, and it starts up when i turn on my mac to make sure that it doesn't miss any of my activities.

the second, and probably much cooler, application is shareware, but for the twenty something dollars that it costs, its totally worth it. you have to have a bluetooth enabled cell phone to use this program, but if you have one, check out BluePhone Elite. this program, once paired with your cell phone, will pop up a screen on your mac that shows a caller id of the person that's calling your cell phone. for me, i often leave my cell phone in the hallway near the front door, and when it rings, i don't hear it. but now, when i'm on my mac, i'll see exactly who is calling me and if its important or if i want to get it, i'll go down and get the phone. its good for not having to get up and interrupt the work that you're doing on your computer (or your porn watching, whatever), and not missing calls if your cell phone isn't always by your side.

there are so many other apps (cocoabooklet, freemind, journler, nisus thesaurus, note to self, park, podtube, sidenote, task list [if you're still in school], file wrangler, check off, and so many others, do check out Mira and TapDex), that they just make an already great computer that much better.

now its actually a chore to go on my pcs.