Comments on: Four Windows apps for home-sick Mac users

By: Brady - Mac Got Me

Brady - Mac Got Me — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:10:30 +0000

Digsby is great! That was my messaging client of choice for the PC, now that I've switched to a Mac for my personal computer, I'm using Adium. Funny how things change! ;-)

By: AdrianR

AdrianR — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:03:24 +0000

Another +1 for Launchy.
Although it still isn't quite as good as Quicksilver.

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:13:34 +0000

Just been playing with InType's public beta. It's small, fast and definitely features a multi-level undo.

[)amien

By: David

David — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:16:05 +0000

+1 for Launchy :)
http://www.launchy.net/

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:06:53 +0000

The last time I looked at intype it didnt even have Undo. makes it useless to me. To not build something so critical into the base of your architecture... shakes head...

Suraj, whats its status like now? usable? good?

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:51:03 +0000

@damien, I understand the whole point of using cygwin but its like the whole "It needs to be as unix as possible but.. windows" If you want the power of the unix cli and its tools, then use it. cygwin is just buggy and awful, but does indeed serve a purpose.

it becomes a _real_ pain if you use something like ruby as you really need an indentical gem install system inside cygwin and outside of cygwin to have things work reliably as ruby can get super confused.

I just have a low opinion of E.

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:39:40 +0000

InType looks very interesting. Comprehensive yet incredibly fast and small with some TextMate compatibility! I'll keep an eye on that one.

[)amien

By: Suraj

Suraj — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:16:11 +0000

Personally I am holding out for http://intype.info/ to get a release out of the door.

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:56:54 +0000

@Stu: If you want compatibility with TextMate plugin's you're going to need a Unix-compatible shell/layer and so Cygwin it is.

UltraEdit doesn't feel very Mac-like to me.

[)amien

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:18:50 +0000

Instead of Dash, use Launchy. It's free, open source and very useful. Personally I find it and Quicksilver much preferable to searching through my Program Files / Applications list for a program - that way I can just keep my top 5-10 apps on a shortcut bar that doesn't get too bloated.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:50:57 +0000

unfortunatly E-Text Editor is garbage. requires cygwin, has awefull behvaiour with long files / long line widths. UltraEdit is much better for windows editing.