Previously on trioptimum.co.uk: The Losing Battle
For the first time in months, my inbox is empty! A big, looming, constantly worsening task has finally been dealt with, allowing me to finally reassert some control over my digital victim lifestyle.
I feel like celebrating. So light-headed am I that I'm making this wacky offer: send me an email and I'll reply to it!1
P.S. Coming up fast on my list of things to do is to kick my websites back into shape. I did the whole switching thing a few months ago, as you may know, but all my website source files are still sitting on the old PC where I had a nice little workflow that worked well for me. Now I'm a newbie to OS X and largely ignorant of all the software that exists, so in order to do things like update the contents of that antiquated sidebar over there (pfft, City of Heroes? come on...), I need to figure out how to recreate the same effect with none of the same tools. Irritatingly, developers seem inclined to charge registration fees on OS X for software that would probably have a nice free alternative on Windows (would somebody please show me a good free Mac FTP client?), so that makes the discovery process more time-consuming.
1 Offer open for a limited time only. Not valid outside the Internet.
Updated: As it turned out, it didn't take very long after all to find Cyberduck, an apparently perfectly serviceable GPL FTP/SFTP client for OS X. Sorry, unlicensed mode RBrowser, you're fired.
I really need to figure out exactly what I mean by 'digital victim lifestyle'. It just felt apt.
I use cyberduck for my university pages...i think because it has the cutest icon, with the possible exception of subethaedit. There's some competition with these mac icons though! Oh, congratulations on cleansing the inbox, I will "write you" proper soon.