Well Real Mac have released a new update (release) to my favorite web design tool Rapid Weaver! all I can say is WOW, man it is faster to upload sites, fast exports, lots of little bug fixes!


New Plugins for Rapid Weaver:
Rapid Cart, a non PHP, MySQL shopping cart! Currently it is only working with Pay Pal but the developer are going to be adding more services. It is currently up to version 1.07.

Weaver FM
A great Ajax Mollify file sharing plugin! Only one drawback is it does play well with I.E. 6 (okay what does) browsers, hey people upgrade all ready!

This is very cool, check it out
A page reader on the web! COOL!

Well it seems I did not make the beta team again from RW. Well I am told they are up to build 3000 as of this morning. It is pretty cool what you can pick up on Twitter. Thanks for the info Nik.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/04/23/exclusive-preview-rapidweaver-matures-with-version-4

Check out the above link! It show the slick new features of release 4.0 of my favorite web design tool for MAC! Most RW users are dying to get their hands on the new version! I have applied for the beta so maybe I will be picked! Then I will have more to say AFTER I GET TO PLAY WITH IT! Oh yes it is for Leopard users only!

Wow I got a new 16 GB iPod touch for Christmas, my first reaction was WOW this puppy is great. I really like this iPod. Then I tried it on my home airport extreme network ( for accessing the iTunes store via wifi) it took me a couple of tries but that works great as well. Okay I spend like 40.00 dollars on my first trip, got to watch that, My only complaint is the on screen keyboard that my fat fingers can't get the right letters to type. The video playback is great, the large screen is great as well. It has only been 3 days but I am hooked. I wish Apple would let it play games as well ( the other new iPod's can but not the touch except online ones..) having a email app would be great as well. Hopefully when Apple releases the SDK tool kit to the developer community that will bring a fair amount of add ons to the iPhone and the Touch platforms. Well back to the music, videos, and movies on my new toy.. Oh yes buy the screen protectors and a good case are next on my to do list. Oh boy another trip to the Apple store!

Thanks Susan, Jason, Chris, Cameron, Nikole, and Zachary for a great Christmas holiday.

Also I forgot to wish all of you a Happy New Year!

Okay I have been a MAC user since 2003, and I love my MAC's. I have now upgraded all but one to Leopard (out of the ones that can run it), all have gone flawlessly. The only issue I have had is with the printers we have (HP PS 1218xi and 7350) not functioning correctly. Hey that happens with all Operating systems (even Vista). So I am waiting for HP to update the drivers.

But that is not the reason I am writing today.
Let's talk photo software again. Kodak Easy Share has been updated for Leopard, and wow it works very well. Sue likes it for how easy it is for her to get what she wants. It has the same look and feel in the windows version as well. Best of all it is free!

Here is the link:
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=11467&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=20133

Give it a try and see what you think!

Pixelmator:
Very nicely build application, more like the full version of Photoshop ( than Elements 99.00 for elements 59.00 for Pixelmator if I recall). It is really powerful! Has a sexy interface!

Thanks for reading!

Okay just a few things to review:

iPartition:
I bought this nice little application for Mac OS X 10.4.X in august used it once. It is a good application but you only need to use it about once every few months. They came out with a updated version 63 days after I purchased it, and charged me to upgrade it. Okay no where on the developer's site did it say how long the they gave free upgrades for. Silly me you think that would be important information! I get an email saying there was an update (the term free was in the email), it cost me 25.00 usd to get the upgrade. Sent a copied of the email to the developer, and got back a very nasty email. Was told to go pound sand because my purchase was over 60 days old.

Leopard:
Okay I love this new Mac operating system! I installed it the day it came out on my MBP 17! It went great! (I never had a upgrade on windows that worked this well). I have been running it for 2 weeks now with out a hitch! I only have found 3 applications that don't play well with it. iFamily which I reported to their support site and they had a fix out in 72 hours for the issue. Rapid Weaver had a small problem in preview mode for flash pages. Reported that I am now test the new version of code from them that has fixed that issue. It took them about a 10 days to come out with a fix. The last one is Photoshop elements 4.0 for Mac, Adobe is not going to fix the issues, instead they want you to upgrade to the full version of Photoshop (300.00), or wait until they make a new version of Elements (some time in 2009), from following the forums at Adobe the full version does not work either in leopard! So I am looking for a new photo tool.

Pixelmator:
Okay this might get me to drop Photoshop! Photoshop!

Isaiah is coming out with another rapidweaver plugin call Carousel. Yourhead has brought us Blocks, Accordion, Collage, and Columns plugins! Thanks Yourhead!

Wow I have only been playing with rapid Weaver 3.5 for a few hours and I really like it. Even though it is still beta it runs very well. Most of the theme developers have sent out updated theme that take advantage to the new features, I have all of the universal plug-ins working. I like the new interface!

Okay I am using RapidWeaver for designing all of my web sites for myself and my small customers. It is the best. I have found that the plug-ins that come with the base system are great, but if you need more than just the basics then you need to get on over to yourhead.com they make some of the very best plug-ins for RapidWeaver! Yes there are other plug-ins out there but yourheads are great!