Episode 41 / May 23, 2007
Merlin Mann plugs Matt Jones’s Matt Webb’s Textmate bundle that creates a wiki within Textmate using a bunch of text files inside a folder. This is something of an alternative to VoodooPad. You get all the wiki goodness and plain ‘ol text files to boot. Merlin especially likes that anything you can do with Quicksilver to text, you can do to the files in your Textmate wiki (generate new files, append text, etc.).
Guest Craig Syverson picks iStat Pro, which has been updated to version 4. This app gives you a one-glance look at everything that’s going on with your computer: memory use, CPU use, hard drive use, network, temperature, battery cycling, etc. It’s got a great customizable UI. The app has a companion widget and can also be accessed from the menubar.
Scott Bourne tells us about Photoshop CS3 because of Bridge, Adobe’s version of Apple’s Aperture media organization app. Scott likes the new metadata features and its speed. He says it’s a dream when teamed up with Adobe’s Camera RAW Converter.
Leo Laporte picks Armegatron, a free, open source, and very cool looking Tron light cycle game. It’s multiplayer and cross-platform, so you can play against your Windows buddies.
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