Adam C. Hegedus

I’m writing this using the brand new wordpress app for my new iPhone 3g. Where would I be without this thing!!

By the way… Tap Tap Revenge is a truly great game for the iPhone. And this is my current best.

I just recently decided to look into a new GTD (Getting Things Done) solution for myself. I want a tool that I can use on both my Macbook Pros, and and my iPhone. Ideally, they should be able to sync with each other. Bonus points if the iPhone syncs wirelessly.

Anyway, I’m looking at two great looking products. The first is OmniFocus. This is a really nice looking product. Very complete, with tons of features and a lot of flexibility in how you GTD. Based on OmniOutliner, which is also a very well designed tool.

The second is called Things. The nice thing about this product is that it is really well designed. The folks at Cultured Code definitely put a lot of thought into this great app. It looks great, it has nice features and even though it’s slightly more limited than OmniFocus, it’s still extremely usable.

The one thing that’s not included (yet) in Things is syncing. I’m hoping that this is done soon, but in the mean time, I heard about a great technology that makes syncing Things between Macs a snap. It’s called Dropbox.

This is very similar to .mac, however it syncs on the fly, instantly. So you have a folder called your Dropbox, and every time you copy a file to it, it automatically syncs it to the Dropbox servers. Then you can access your files from any machine (Mac or PC) or even via a web interface. Public files can even be accessed through a web link by anyone.

This is really great technology, but unfortunately it’s not quite ready for prime time yet. It’s still in beta and if you want to get a look at it, you need an invitation. I was lucky enough to get an invite from Eric Belanger, and now I have 10 invitations that I can pass on. So if you want to take a look at Dropbox, post a comment here. I’ll send invites to the first 10 to ask.

I’ll give my take on GTD apps next time.

A little over a year ago I took the plunge and bought my first mac. I’ve been working with Windows systems since 3.0 and at one point called my wife’s old mac a ‘Boat Anchor’. So every now and then we eat a little crow and end up with a killer machine. Since that time I’ve never looked back and I just love the Mac platform. I now have two macbook pro’s (one for home and one for work) and I’m actively trying to convince Carrie to get a iMac for our basement (odds are not good!). In the mean time, I’m excited because the long awaited upgrade to OS X is due out this Friday and my order is already in. It’s going to be fun!!! More later.

Last week I had the privilege of attending the 360Flex conference in San Jose, California. I didn’t really know what to expect since I am new to Flex, but it turned out to be a great trip. I learned a lot about Flex and now my head is filled with ideas that could benefit from this great technology. Hopefully in the next few days I’ll post some sample code from the conference (Written by Tom Ortega) that I’m adapting to use a HTTPServices written in Ruby on Rails. Trust me on this one, it’s cool stuff. I’m sure we’ll all be seeing more of Flex in the near future.

During this trip, I also had the opportunity to visit the Apple Campus in Cupertino, California. I’m a relatively new Mac user, but I was still really excited to go there. I did buy the one T-Shirt that I have wanted since I found out that it existed. It simply says, “I visited the mothership”.

I love that. I have to give much credit to the Apple marketing folks because they come up with some great stuff. I came very close to buying a second shirt:

For those of you who don’t get it, ‘Redmond’ is referring to a certain Company based in Redmond, Washington. I wish I could come up with stuff like that!