I retired from my job of managing a GIS operation for State Government a couple of years ago and one of the consequences of this change of pace was that I not longer had to use MS Windows. I’d been running a Macbook for a few years before this change but now that I’m in the retirement mode I run OS X programs on my Macbook Pro and iMac almost exclusively although I have to admit that around tax time (which is now) I prepare out taxes using TaxAct running under Parallels 7.
Since I find myself with more time on my hands that I’ve typically had in the past for using my Mac (and iPhone as well) I typically get to try out different programs and perhaps buy same if they strike my fancy. Now since I’m spending so much time and energy actually installing (and occasionally removing) programs from iMac, Macbook Pro and iPhone, I figure it’s more than past time to start recording my observations of all this time wasting software exploration!
I don’t quite know where this blog is heading yet, but I can say that it’s going to be almost exclusively concentrating on the software side of things and I’ll not only be writing about my experiences running OS X programs but also IOS programs on my iPhone. I admit upfront that I don’t own an iPad although it’s possibly a device that I might own in my future. I’ll also try to provide a rich linking environment on this blog, since that’s really what the web’s all about.
For the curious, I’m presently typing this entry using a beta copy of Mou which strikes me as already being a more than adequate system for creating markdown copy even in this still beta stage. Don’t worry if you are not sure what that Markdown reference is about. I’ll probably be writing about it very soon.
