MBP

So I'm back to a Mac, again. And I wonder why I ever left. (Actually, I know just why I left, it had to do with a $1,200 rip off of a brake job at a local establishment and no other way to pay for it, but that's a different blog...)

Being back in a Mac reminds me of everything I love about Macs. Especially MacMail, and Parallels Desktop, but there are so many other things. Everything just feels so polished and finished, and solid. And fast too. It's very, very fast.

One of my favorite things is that two of my very favorite pieces of open source software are available for the Mac. DropBox and KeePass. KeePass is a password vault that lets me keep all of my important information in a single secure file. That file I store in my DropBox which syncs with any computer I run, including both Windows and Linux boxes at work, as well as my little Eee, which is now sitting quietly on a shelf, waiting to be called into duty as a backup when I have to use AppleCare.

TextWrangler is the other piece of open source software that I like a lot, which is the HTML editor I use. Or should use to keep current on the web work I'm so dreadfully behind on. And there's my favorite FTP client, FileZilla (thanks for introducing me to that one Lumpy...).

I've still got more tweaks and things to work out, and maybe I won't be done with that for another week or so, especially the VMs under Parallels, but it feels like home. And when I'm blogging in front of the fireplace at the coffee shop with a vanilla latte, well that's just alright. :-)