Yay lists! Yay apps! Yay iPhone! Plus why I’ve gone iPhone zen and which productivity app won out, making me think I’m being productive…
I’m a sucker for lists. This is no different. 148Apps just recently released the results of their 2008 Best App Ever Awards for the iPhone. Lots of great applications on these lists, some of them I’m already using.
Unfortunately I’ve been slacking on the app front when it comes to my phone. I guess that’s a byproduct of hacking the shit out of it and stuffing everything under the sun into it. I’ve sorta gone zen with my choices now, sticking with things that truly help. By far my most used app is Things. I tried OmniFocus and while Things isn’t perfect for me, it did more things I wanted it to than OF.
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Why I needed to change yet another part of my site and further issues getting Javascript libraries to play nice together.
The light on dark version of this site has always had a jQuery driven content glider installed. The first one used code from Dynamic Drive. It simply did the job. I still believe there’s no better way to handle content in a single space and still be SEO friendly XHTML rather than Flash. Unfortunately I couldn’t leave things alone.
While I liked most of what the first glider did, I wanted a different effect when the next slide was shown. I wanted it to look like it was pushing the first one out of the way. The Dynamic Drive version just overlapped. There is a plethora of gliders out there and all seem to do almost everything I want them to.
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