There are well-known best-in-class Mac apps for tackling many tasks. In fact, many Mac users are Mac users because of certain tools (Final Cut Pro) that are well known and highly regarded. Aside from the obvious choices (Creative Suite, unfortunately, is still the only serious contender for design work), there are a handful of programs that every serious Mac user knows about - Quicksilver (and now, Google Quick Search Box) for a launcher, TextMate for a text editor, Transmit for an FTP client, Dropbox for cloud storage, and Quinn for Tetris. There are excellent alternatives to most of these, and power-users know and have tried them all. But we each have our own lesser-known favorites, without which we probably couldn't make it through the day…
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Lesser known, round one.
On Multitasking
There's a lot of whining and complaining from people who have and who haven't used the iPad, much of it revolving around the lack of multitasking. It seems likely that, as with the iPhone's copy & paste, multitasking is a feature that is in the works, and when it comes it will fit the device better than we ever could have hoped. This will, of course, require much thought about the reasons we multitask, and the paradigm shift that accompanies the rest of the iPad platform.
Chrome VS Safari
Project Chromium for a Week was pretty uneventful. I got pissed off at the constant barrage of beachballs from Safari, and started The Project a few days ahead of schedule. Chrom(e/ium) works well enough, and I've stuck with it, even after the official end of The Project. Up until recently, your choice of web browser on the Mac was essentially Safari, Firefox, or Opera. There are also the antiquated IE for Mac and OmniWeb. In my opinion, all but Safari are completely laughable. Chrome is the first real competitor, in my opinion. Firefox is probably next closest - I know some are willing to put up with its joke of a UI in the name of extensibility and openness, but I am not. Chrome's UI is nowhere near perfect, but still much more pleasant to use than Firefox. Rather than write a lengthy essay on why I'm using Chrome for now, or why I might switch back to Safari some day, I figured I'd just throw together a quick pro/con list, and leave it up to the reader to prioritize.