Comments on: Minimal Mountain Lion

By: Stuffe

Stuffe — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:55:58 +0000

Well, for sure I have had to use the iMac a number of times for things that I just didn;t have installed on the Macbook Air, but a lot of the time it was also plain more appropriate to use the larger machine. Thus far the lack of Flash has actually caused more issues than anything else. The only 3rd party product I have installed currently is Minecraft...which I using to create a house rennovation design!

By: Nathan Greenstein

Nathan Greenstein — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:21:13 +0000

I admire your bravery!

Personally, I don't think something like this would work out for me. Keeping everything vanilla is attractive for good reasons, but specialized third party software is more attractive to me.

A couple little examples:

For Twitter, Osfoora offers several powerful features over the web interface that I wouldn't want to give up. One of those, ironically, is synchronization with Tweet Marker.

The same can be said of Byword: a distraction-free writing experience is so valuable to me that I wouldn't be able to give it up.

To me, the awesome software available for Mac is one of the things that draws me to the platform the most. Maybe that's just because I'm so picky and like to tinker so much :)

Best of luck you, keep us posted.

By: Abhi Beckert

Abhi Beckert — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:13:40 +0000

There are online alternatives to 1Password, such as LastPass.

LastPass is a HTML5 app, and has quite a good Safari extension which you can find from the "Get Extensions" page in Safari's preferences (not to be confused with the binary plugin they also make available. I don't use that one).