Cristiano on Tech/Life

Instead of focussing on what is coming in 2008, or what was popular in 2007, I wanted to focus on what I decided to dump in 2007. Not Melinda, I would never dump her, but software (and related) I did dump. Here is the software I decided to stop using in 2007:

• Firefox: Although I still have Firefox installed, I never really use it anymore but for testing and debugging HTML. I don’t use it as a browser anymore because version 2 is so ridiculously slow in comparison to let’s say Safari. Furthermore I don’t like how insecure and inaccessible Firefox stores its login information for websites. Come on Mozilla, you do know that Mac OS X has a Keychain for that right? I mean, Mozilla Camino does it, Safari does it, then why doesn’t Firefox do it? Furthermore I don’t need 300 browser tweaks, so running Safari 3 with Saft and Inquisitor is all I really need.
• Microsoft Office: With the release of iWork ‘08 the use of Microsoft Office has really become redundant. I wrote before on how I think that a combination of Google Docs and iWork could be a far more valuable asset for most people. I personally don’t work for a company that wants me to use MS Office, neither do I feel it gives me something extra. It has even gone this far that I seriously don’t care anymore about what Microsoft is doing with Office 2008. Is it still coming in 2008? Is it out yet? Don’t care.
• FAT: Before we moved to London I still had a lot of data one external hard drives, partitioned in FAT32, because you never know when you need to access your data on a Windows machine. With the move to London and a very Mac oriented world I decided to dump FAT because it is too limiting and simply useless. If I ever need to share that data with a Windows pc I will just have to make the data available over Samba or something.