What source(s) do you rely on for Mac software info?
05/21/07 15:46 Filed in: Macintosh
Software
It’s pretty inevitable that people develop varied
working methods. Hence, one application doesn’t
suit everyone equally. I find direct reviews of
individual applications useful to a point.
However, I’m finding more and more that there are
quite a number of applications aimed at managing
or enabling the same tasks — launchers, text
editing, html/css/web creation and so on. So my
question is this: Are there any definitive
sources of comparisons for software meant to
handle the same task?
Some reviews published by MacWorld offer
comparisons or mention other individual apps
in the review of a product, by way of
comparing features (or lack thereof). There
are likely others I've not come across.
There are some nice Wikipedia pages popping
up. One in particular provides a comparison
for HTML editors, which I’ve
mentioned elsewhere in my blogs. I've
actually begun to gather a list of
"Comparison of" pages from Wikipedia that I
might post sometime soon. What I can’t seem
to find though are enough outright feature
comparisons for a group of similar apps. So,
“see a need, fill a need” to quote the movie
Robots (I have a 5 year
old son, hence I have memorized most or all
of the dialogue from about a dozen animated
feature length films).
Let me know if there's some miraculous source I've not managed to ferret out. I'd really love to know — these things are really, truly time consuming not to mention the space it eats up on the hard drive.
Let me know if there's some miraculous source I've not managed to ferret out. I'd really love to know — these things are really, truly time consuming not to mention the space it eats up on the hard drive.
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