Good cheap Mac software substitute for Photoshop and Dreamweaver users

After buying my MacBook Pro, one of the things that took some getting used to was the compatibility with certain popular software like Photoshop and Dreamweaver - applications that I used very frequently. Well, Adobe (the company that makes both the above mentioned software) has a Mac version as well. But of course, the issue here is the price. If you were to download and buy the new Adobe CS5 suite it would cost you more than $ 1000 US dollars!

So after discovering a site one day, I was pleased to find that it was made on a software called RapidWeaver, which is made exclusively for Macs. I went to the rapidweaver site - http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/ and downloaded it. After trying it out I am of the opinion that while it lacks much of the real control that Dreamweaver offers for making websites, it is pretty good for making a basic attractive website at a very attractive price - only $79 US.

Then comes the photoshop equivalent. Though I haven't downloaded and tried it as yet, but http://www.pixelmator.com/ seems to have most of the features that Photoshop gives at a very attractive price of $ 59 US. I believe they have a Windows version as well.

So worth a look for Mac users trying to get their hands on some Mac Software.

Shashi Tharoor clean bowled

When Shashi Tharoor entered Indian politics a year ago, not even the fake pundits predicted that he would be out so soon. Kind of like Tendulkar being clean bowled in his first over.

The nation looked forward to the entry of this person into it's political arena. Here was a man who was a 'super diplomat', a man who was a heartbeat away from becoming the UN Secretary General.

But despite his impeccable credentials and diplomatic record, Tharoor turned out to be a major disappointment. His never-ending tweets (many times with controversial contents) showed a surprising lack of tact and diplomacy. It was really unnecessary for him to have written all these official matters in a hasty and irreverent manner.

The last straw of course being the IPL controversy which led to his resignation.

Is Tharoor out of Indian politics for good? Who knows. But what is for sure is that he needs some serious coaching on how to conduct himself as a minister. A minister is a representative of the government and as such is not supposed to air out his opinions so openly (sad, but true). But Tharoor is still an MP and maybe he could still be a better MP than he was a minister. But if it is proved that there was some corruption involved in the IPL scandal, maybe even his future as an MP could be in doubt.

New blog colour scheme

Changed the colour scheme on my blog today. Hope you like it better than before.

Blog lazy!

Okay, so I haven't been blogging much lately. Well, what can I say other than the fact that I have been lazy! Having said that, I hope to be more regular here on. The thing is now with all these social apps - twitter, facebook, etc. you never really know whether to tweet, blog or note (write a Facebook note that is - yeh, I think I've invented a new socio-tech word..come to think of it -- 'socio-tech' sounds pretty original as well, no?)

Got to go now, more later.