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Yesterday I had to setup my system all over, cause for some weird reason my hard drive made these strange noises and it immeadiatley recalled bad memories of when my previous hard drive went to nirvana a year ago.
Everything feels a lot tighter and responsive again and one of the first things to do is look for a cool screensaver.

First there is Strat Wars setting your breaks in space where spaceships do what they do, when there's no plot tied up in, they fight. Extensions for borg ships, battlestar galactica or additional Star Wars ships are provided.

PolarClock is a really cool one. A circular colorfull display of month, week, days, hours, minutes and seconds. Use it, it looks good.

Another really nice Saver is Word Clock looks good too and leaves you wondering why you didn't make a saver like that before. Customizable in color, layout, limited language capabilities and custamizable font usage.

This is a short list with a few apps which poved to be quite useful and best of all: they're free!

App Delete
Does what it says. It scans for data related to the app you want to delete and puts them in their own folder. Clean, fast and convenient.

iGTD
A nifty Getting Things Done application. First I got a bit overwhelmed by the interface, but after getting used to the approach iGTD turned out to be quite useful.
Still I wish there'd be stuff like: bars visualising interfering tasks, graphs bout efficience and a possibility to send ToDo's to others.
Things could be a good alternative when it's available.

TheDailyGrind
It may not be very powerful but in case you have no other tracker available TheDailyGrind comes in handy, well designed and in case you want to access your basecamp account there's always… Sundial.

iBackup
Since my previous fav app BackityMac went shareware (it pretty much looks like you'll have to pay to use it in a way that makes sense) I'll take iBackup when Leopard arrives and I'll migrate my data to the new Laptop.

Don't forget to donate for what it's worth.

I'm not a big coder but I do actually like coding for web. It's really refreshing switching to a much more structured and ordered approach to a product. First I was scripting Actionscript within Flash and I didn't look any further for a long time. There's actually no chance getting in contact with web technologies or coding at all, since the Bauhaus doesn't really encourage coding.
Recently though since my year abroad I got more interested, took a look at a lot of resources, bought a few boring books, which never never ever helped and started to incorporate css and xhtml into my lingo and took a few looks at Java Script which helped me a lot for huge parts of Anchorman. But one thing really got on my nerves. Taking a look at available software there's a lot good quality stuff helping with certain problems. And this is an actual problem. It led to editing css in CSSEdit (yep, always keep an eye on the app's registries to extend testing time ;), setting up my xhtml in Smultron (yeah, yuckie icon that is!) upload the file in Cyberduck test it, and go back, alter some stuff, upload it…
Annoying workflow. And it wasn't really fun until Coda came up. I've tested it for quite a while now and bought it afterwards straight away. And here I am flying through all the lines of code, altering and switching with all the convenience I had in the above mentioned apps plus the joy of a unified workflow. Working takes less time, actually allows me to concentrate on a problem and helped me a lot to understand and learn. Go on and get your test version here .
They don't pay me by the way ;)