Pretty Mac Apps and other things
Posted Sep 28, 2006 in and Design
Via Daring Fireball, word of a new Mac app. An insanely cute new Mac app. Cha-Ching—a simple personal finance manager. With a cute icon. I paused about 20 seconds before buying it as a discounted beta-type app. I am a sucker for the pretty. Somebody help me.
I’m beta-testing VOX, 6Apart’s new move into the MySpace, er, space. It’s prettier than MySpace (which wouldn’t be hard, as MySpace is ugly like a billion cat eyeballs rotting on your living room carpet) and it’s better organised and structured than Livejournal (the community blogging tool recently purchased by 6Apart) but it has some work to do on the basics. The rich-text editor is hideously hard to use, and it seems to do some kind of predictive insertion of text as you write. Or that’s just a bug. I found myself taking 5 minutes to write a short paragraph, as random characters kept disappearing and writing themselves over complete words. Basically, I was just longing for a simple text-edit box with Textile functionality.