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January 8, 2008 ~ Comments 0

By no means an exhaustive list, and much of it’s not necessarily new in 2007, just new to me.

Best New (To Me) Music: The National

Not a new group, but new to me this past year, The National quickly rose to the top of my rotation list. Their newest release in 2007, Boxer, is fantastic, but Alligator is still their best in my opinion.

Best New (To Me) Gadget & Toy: The iPhone & Wii

I think there’s been enough said about these two already.

Best Thing in My Inbox: Very Short List

I don’t subscribe to many email lists, but by far the best email list from last year is Very Short List. If you’re not getting “one gem a day, five days a week”, this is one email list that won’t get lost with the rest of the bacn.

Best New Icon on My Dock: Coda

An all-in-one web development tool with all the elegance and simplicity of a Mac app. Coda hasn’t changed the way I work as much as it has for many others, but it’s definitely a great new tool I use on almost every project.

Best Waste of a Day: Waiting in Line for the iPhone

I’ve never been the type to wait in line all day for something, but then again Apple never released a phone before. While it’s something I probably won’t do again, it was fun to be part of the launch brouhaha.

Tags: best of, best of 2007, coda, iphone, the national, very short list, wii

June 6, 2007 ~ Comments 0

Panic’s Coda caused quite a stir…and delivers on the hype.

A lot’s already been said about Panic’s Coda and I’m certainly late to the review party so I’ll keep this short.

Coda lives up to the hype, but still falls short for me as being a total replacement for my main development apps of Transmit and Textmate.

After using coda for a few weeks, where I’ve found it works best in my work flow is as the initial coding tool to do the first draft of HTML and CSS, translating my Photoshop design into a live design. After that, I find myself returning to Transmit and Textmate.

Tags: apps, coda, panic, reviews, web design