Episode 53 / September 15, 2007
Scott Bourne starts with a hardware pick beyond the practical reach of most of us, the Bang and Olufsen Earset 2 bluetooth headset at $350. He says that it’s not worth $350, but it makes you look like a Borg. So yeah.
Not happy with Firefox, Leo Laporte has been looking to Safari and ways to extend it a la Firefox extension. So, he picks Inquisitor, the really cool and free search plugin for the Safari search bar. Like Spotlight on your desktop, you start typing and search results start popping up immediately (from Google, Yahoo!, Amazon or other sites). It also feature auto-complete. Like most really cools apps, it’s hard to describe and it’s better to just check it out.
Andy Ihnatko gives Quicktime Pro props. He says you don’t realize how much you’ll use the full-featured version until you unlock it. He says it’s great for editing audio and video as well as converting between formats.
Hey! At this point on the podcast Leo gives this site a shout out. Woo-hoo! He thanks yours truly (actually pronouncing m name correctly, I guess that’s why he’s a pro) and the fine folks at mbwpicks.com who are also cataloguing all the picks.
Alex Lindsay picks some vaporware that does look really cool (and isn’t so steamy since Alex has been playing with it, we find out in a later episode). Pixelmator is an image editor that has all the robust popular features of Photoshop without any of the bloat. It uses the Core Image technologies Apple provides and looks very much the Cocoa app. Very beautiful looking. Here’s hoping it delivers.
Justine Ezarik chooses MailPlane, which is a desktop interface for Gmail. It’s not a regular mail application; it still uses the Gmail web interface we all know and love. However, it adds all sorts of functionality like the ability to have several accounts open in tabs, image drag and drop, notification, etc.
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