Some people asked me to talk about how the switch to Apple is going.
I continue to get acclimated to the new Powerbook. I knew there would be new things to get use to. The navigation is a little different. I like Expose and how it manages multiple windows. I am really impressed with how the iLife products work so well with each other. My wife has already made her first movie and published it to the web.
I also knew I would have to sacrifice. There have been two casualties thus far. The first is my Oddpost mail. The service is only available for Internet Explorer. With that I lost a great web-based mail systems with a RSS aggregator.
The second loss is the Movable Type interface. I was really annoyed to find the tag buttons missing on the New Entry page of MT. I use those constantly. Again, the javascript that runs those buttons is only supported on IE.
The encouraging part is for every problem, I find a better solution on Apple. I use NetNewsWire for my RSS feeds. The interface is outstanding and I love the ability to group feeds in folders. For blogging, I am trying out Ecto. Ecto is a client that sits on your desktop and does more than I could ask for managing posts.
Still looking for a killer email program…