wassim maouad . illustration . visual arts . web 2.0

I am not really aware of any good open source application for the platform, but there are two license-based software that deserve a close look:

iStopMotion and Dragon;

Dragon’s interface is one hell of a handsome one! Both seem packed with a handful of features; even though iStopMotion boasts a more impressive list on its website, Dragon’s features are far from being trivial, and seam directed towards the upper level professional.

I’m going to download iStopMotion’s trial for a first-hand experience of it. Unfortunately, no trial version is provided by Dragon Stop Motion.

I have been using OOo on Mac OS X for quite a while, via the X11 windowing system; in spite of all the claims that X11 is “compatible, fast, and fully integrated with Mac OS X”, the thing was a real cow, heavy and sluggish.

Now that the Aqua build is out (beta, yup), I have installed it with great relief: Open Office is now “compatible, fast, and fully integrated with Mac OS X”, and seems to be running reliably.

I simply and stupidly LOVE it :)

Ok, I admit I do not use it half as much as I use FireFTP, but what the shawarma, if you need a light stand-alone, intuitive, super-simple FTP client for Mac OS X, and do not require to have the double local / server views (with Cyberduck, the local view is simply the Finder), just, you know, just get it… It can’t be any simpler…