Coda Update

If you’re on a Mac, and you’re a web designer, developer, coder, etc…you need to check out Coda from Panic.

They just released the newest update (free for v1 owners), and they’ve added Subversion version control…this app has almost everything now, it’s insanely wonderful.

• Source Control using Subversion
• Local multi-file search and replace
• Add a new book that can point to your favorite reference material on the internet or locally
• Improved syntax coloring, including accurate coloring and completion when one language is nested in another (such as JavaScript and CSS within HTML)
• Scriptable editor and document management
• Tab Status Icons tell you if a file is local or remote at a glance
• Sites are now sortable
• New “Reverse Publish” action performs a folder-hierarchy-aware download of remote items

This app is incredible. I love it, and it has saved me countless hours of productivity by having everything in one place.

Gruber reviewed it last year, and his review still holds true.

Coda 1.5 Released

I’ll try to add a more detailed review, but it’d be easier for you to just go download the demo and see how wonderful it is for yourself.

Movable Type, Now With Comments

So, Movable Type now has comments, but ONLY on their Pro version, sucka!

This is hilarious (be sure to watch to the very end, last line is the best):

Via Lloyd Budd

Android from TMobile Confirmed

As I contemplate an iPhone purchase, Google’s Android phone, now called the G1, has been officially announced for T-Mobile. This is very intriguing.

This might be everything I need…but does it work? We’ll see.

These are my likes:

* 5 Row QWERTY keypad
* 3.1MP camera (no flash, but that’s ok)

* Sync capable with Google Calendar

* Downloadable content via Android Marketplace

* Google Streetview with built-in compass

So, looks like I’m keeping my curve until at least the end of September, now…you’re welcome, T-Mobile.

To iPhone, or Not to iPhone

So the iPhone 3G has been out for a while now. There was no way in heck I was going to pay for iPhone v1, but v2 looks pretty cool and had most of the features I thought were missing from v1, and it’s at a somewhat more realistic price point for me because I’m already paying for a data plan with T-Mobile.

However, I’m still waiting, because I’m still not sold. Back in February, I snagged a Blackberry Curve for $50 as I upgraded to a data plan and business line for Duce Enterprises. Also, that damn asterisk you see in this picture just annoys me…it’s “half the price,” yet more expensive…wtf!

Reports about overheating, unfair (and illegal?) advertising, poor developer interactions, and more, are a bit worrisome.

Ahh, but do the pros outweigh the cons?

PROS:

• I can’t get Evernote on my blackberry in app form, and it is quickly becoming my all-in-everything note-taking, to do list productivity and idea tool.
• how cool is the iPhone? it’s a design and usability masterpiece.
• visual voicemail
• App Store
• MLB Live Scores and Video Highlights
• Fast 3G browsing (even if intermittently)

CONS:

• price
• buggy?
• poor 3G coverage?

Do we hold the iPhone to another standard? I mean, even at it’s current median rating of about a 7/10, it still kicks the Curve’s ass in functionality. It’s really like the iPhone gets a 12/15 because it’s on a different scale entirely.

My Curve is slow, I get a lot of hourglass activity. It’s on EDGE, which is slower. It has no memory - I added a 1GB MicroSD card and I still have to clean up my files and photos on this damn thing every week or I’ll miss a text message because I have no available memory, and they get lost in the air. 16GB iPhone, here I come - all my music, some of my photos, videos, podcasts, videocasts, and more…all in one mini-computer that happens to also be a phone.

I do enjoy Facebook, ESPN and Gmail on my Curve, but I’m missing out on Facebook, MLB and Mail on an iPhone, among other things.

So, the dilemma I have is, while the iPhone is a marvel, and I’m absolutely sure it would increase my mobile productivity a little bit, is it worth the hassle of a new number, an eBay transaction for the Curve, and a two-year contract with *puke* AT&T?

Help me decide, my fellow techies and smart-phone users! Throw an argument either way…but make it a good one. I’ll start with the announcement of the Android phone on T-Mobile. Since I’m already a T-Mobile customer, I could wait for that and hope it comes close to the iPhone…hmmm.