Friday, June 6, 2003

iBolg I use NetNewsWire for reading RSS feeds and posting to MacIT, a Radio-hosted weblog. I've also used MoveableType, which I find to be much better than Radio (but complicated to set up), and Blogger, which I found too amateurish. Which brings me to iBlog. The last MoveableType upgrade hosed one of my other weblogs (couldn't rebuild - 500 error that I didn't have the time or patience to figure out), so I downloaded iBlog with rather low expectations. I was wrong - iBlog is more elegant than any other weblog system I've tried. It's integration with .Mac is as seamless as Apple's own iApps, and it can post to an FTP server as well. The developer is very responsive, and has a talent for creating software that is both aesthetically and programmatically excellent. It's exciting to see software development elevated to an art form, as is being done by people like iBlog's Sarat Kongara, NetNews Wire's Brent Simmons and others. People can do amazing things given the right tools. 9:56:35 AM

Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection I'm in the process of setting up a ColdFusion server, and was just about to purchase yet another Timbuktu license when I saw Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection. RDC is about $100 cheaper than Timbuktu (it's free:), and it works very well for controlling any of the professional-level Windows machines. Setup is very simple, and performance is great. 9:37:36 AM