wow factor

I converted to Mac just before last years first MacHeist and ended up a confused Mac user.

Everyone said..if you want the straight dope, no bullshit info on Macs and the Mac community then read Daring Fireball.

Last year Gruber flew into a sustained attack against MacHeist.

So what the fuck happened this year?

Stripped of the bullshit and spin, Sponsorship.

Gruber may well editorialise about last year's sponsorship free attack and stand by it like GWB with WMDs.

Money talks, Gruber talks and last year the only difference was no money.

This years bundle has more applications than last year and the price is the same.

So, what's changed for those hard-done-by developers?

Mr Gruber you are allowed to say you were wrong, excessive, over the top and on a mission last year just as you are allowed to say yes or no to sponsorship.

Captain FTP 5.2
This upgrade answers my wish for File Compare on the Mac. It’s simple and it works.
If only the purchasing and upgrading information was just as simple.

As the better half puts it..

it’s a confusing registration system that sucks so much you’d swear it wasn’t a Mac app

New features:

* Compare Files.
* Edit files with Leopard Functionality.
* Text File handling for SFTP servers.
* Any editor can now be used to edit text files remotely. This improves on previously only supporting ODB text editors.
* Import shortcuts from Fetch v.5.x.

The time was right to plunge into Leopard despite the "blue screen of death" postings everywhere

There are three Macs in the house. First cab off the rank was the MacBook Pro and the upgrade was seamless.
Next the better half's little G4 which wouldn't let the upgrade get to the first furlong.
The various forums repeatedly said that any third party addons could stop it like a ton of bricks. So, the missus gets out the screwdriver, removes the additional 512k ram and bingo, it installed faultlessly. Slotted the ram back in and it's purring like a kitten.

The iMac is next and should be fine.

First observations are it looks sharper, runs faster and Spaces is nifty, especially on the smaller laptop screens.

I'm not an early adopter of anything more expensive than a good wine.

When it comes to computers, phones, audio etc, I'm as slow as a wet week.

This has downsides. Whatever I buy, especially from Apple, is usually followed within milliseconds by the next best version.
Within a month of purchase, our iPod, MacBook Pro and Imac made quantum leaps.

However it does have upsides. Just ask Jeffrey Zeldman

My next Tech Toy has landed in OZ and I'm still procrastinating. Maybe the iPhone will be debugged and available by the time I make a decision.
And don't even ask me about upgrading to that very spotty Leopard. I'm reading everything John Gruber writes on it, if I can find it, before jumping in boots and all.