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Great article. TweetDeck is certainly the best tool for managing community imo.


I mentioned in there the main factor is price. The MacBook seemed like a great deal compared to similar dells at the time. Today the prices are reversed :S

I ran VMWare on the MacBook but it was way too slow.


updated it - yes I use cygwin :)


Yah Exploring is not for everyone nor is Finder. I think that the tree view in Exploring while still showing the contents of the tree is great (compared to thee sliding panes in Finder for example) and the context menu integration of many apps is also good (eg win merge and tortoise).


I think that the tree view in Exploring while still showing the contents of the tree is great

But that's something that Finder handles, also. The CMD-2 view. Or am I missing something?

Also, what are in Merge and Tortoise? I don't get what context menu integration means.


the cmd-2 view shows files & folders in one window, while explorer shows a tree of folders only on the left and the contents on the right.


Sounds a bit excessive. But whatever works, works. Thanks for clarifying!


Context menu integration (more commonly known as shell integration) means that when you install certain programs like Tortoise, the program will add extra menu items to the context menus that show up when you right-click files of a specific type or a folder.

I love my Beyond Compare shell integration. Right-click on Folder A, choose "select left side", find Folder B, right click, choose "compare to Folder A" and then Beyond Compare pops up and diffs all the files in the two folders.


Oh, gotcha.

I don't know. I never really used that as a Windows user. It seemed to add clutter, and that always bugged me. But I guess it helps for some things.

Beyond Compare sounds nifty.


android is going to take over the world!


Currently to use PhoneGap you do have to get the app on app store and the URL for the initial page is hard coded in the app. it is nice though since you get a headless browser with no address bar etc. you could make your own web browser based on it that exposed the apis to all web pages.


Such a browser was tried, and rejected. It violates Apple's "policy" on duplicating built in functionality.


I read on the project's mailing list that an application that embedded the browser was accepted:

http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap/browse_thread/thread...


this is pretty much the most awesome iphone app ever! bringing native iphone apis into a web page is frickin amazing!


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