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Yojimbo by Bare Bones Software is a desktop wiki-like organizer. I currently use MoinX for that purpose, but Yojimbo might give it a run for its money. I’ll have to investigate further. (I’m always looking to increase and improve my data organization processes.)
NeoOffice is the best and most actively developed OpenOffice.org-derivative for Mac OS X. Version 2.0 Alpha is now available, but the project also needs funding! If you can spare $25, join the early access program, get a copy of the Alpha before everyone else, and help support the developers of this essential program for Mac OS X.
I think I met the CEO (or another top person) of SoftMaker way back at Comdex 2003. He was a really friendly and intelligent person, and therefore I’ve been keeping half an eye on what SoftMaker has been up to ever since. Their flagship application, TextMaker, has supported OpenOffice’s file format for years, and ODF since its inception.
Now, TextMaker 2006 for PocketPC is here. The site claims “TextMaker 2006 for Pocket PCs has the same capabilities as TextMaker for Windows – it is the only desktop-class word processor for Pocket PCs!”
Beating MS on its own platform, what a coup!
There’s also strong customer interest in developing a version for Mac OS X as evidenced in this forum thread on SoftMaker’s site.
This is pretty crazy: Apple’s new Boot Camp software aids users in dual-booting new Intel-based Macs between OS X and Windows. It looks like we’re watching an “embrace, extend, extinguish” strategy coming into focus here…
Slashdot reports on the story, as does just about everyone else in the world.
Simon Phipps publishes a piece on his weblog titled NeoOffice Tipping Point.
He discusses the progress Patrick Luby has been making with the Mac OS X port of OOo, NeoOffice. And he helps spread the word that Patrick can do this work because donations from NeoOffice users pay him enough to get by. So, if you can, head on over to Patrick’s tip jar and donate a few dollars!
At today’s Macworld, Apple announced the MacBook Pro laptop, a new iMac, and many software updates, as well as the all-new iWeb application. Excellent.
Open Source Mac provides a list of great FOSS applications for Mac OS X. Be sure to read through to Page 2 and all the way down to the bottom; there are a lot of good apps hidden there!
With a new beta of DTV released yesterday, content sites are already adapting to this fascinating application. CommonMedia has put together a special RSS feed of Daily Show clips they’ve collected, which is formatted specifically to work with DTV. (They’ve also created several other interesting feeds available on the linked page.)
DTV is a GPL-licensed application that feels like iTunes, but for internet video. Users can subscribe to feeds or download individual files of interest, as well as save and organize them locally.
Newsforge publishes a good article about a number of Mac-specific open source applications.
Some of the apps discussed are ClamXav, Growl, Seashore, Vienna, Adium X, Cyberduck, DTV, and others.
The Participatory Culture Foundation is launching DTV, an internet TV broadcast framework roughly equivalent to iTunes, but for user-generated and distributed video. The current beta is available for Mac OS X, with other platforms to follow.