SubEthaEdit by TheCodingMonkeys has to be my favorite text editor on the Mac (which is one reason why I love Coda, because it has the Subetha Engine built right in). Not only is it a very nice, bloat-free text editor with powerful capabilities for syntax highlighting, etc., SubEthaEdit is the first and the best tool for multi-user document collaboration. Yep, even before Google Documents existed, SubEthaEdit was there. Although with Leopard coming out, which now has screen sharing capability built-into iChat, the specialness of an application like SEE may seem diminished, but it’s still going to be a great tool for those Mac users who don’t upgrade to Leopard right away.

SubEthaEdit 3.0 was released today, and it brings along some nice new features. Although the new version is completely compatible with Tiger, it also packs a number of Leopard features, including being fully Quick Look-compatible, making it possible to view SubEthaEdit documents in Finder Cover Flow, Quick Look, and share them in iChat Theater (albeit read-only). SEE 3.0 can also save files in a special “SubEthaEdit Text” format which retains data such as changes by different collaborators and who collaborated on what, etc. It also has a better view for tracking one’s connections, and a statistics window to view various stats on who has contributed what, etc.

They have a movie detailing all the new features in SubEthaEdit 3.0, although it’s a little hard to understand the guy, it’s still an interesting watch. My congrats to the TheCodingMonkeys and hats off for designing such excellent software.

Tags: application, collaboration, Connections, editing, Mac OS X Leopard, sharing, Software, SubEthaEdit, text, TheCodingMonkeys

Lorelle VanFossen presented an amazingly excellent session at WordCamp about connecting with your readers when you blog. This was an excellent conference which I’m so sorry that I missed, due to my stupidity of scheduling something at the same time as her session. Nevertheless, if you’re a blogger and you’re at all interested in really having your blog mean something to your readers, you HAVE to check out this session. I’m now rating it the best session of the whole weekend at WordCamp.
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Tags: Blogging, Connections, Lorelle VanFossen, Revver, San Francisco, Video, WordCamp, WordPress

WordPress superstar Lorelle VanFossen is spending the months of August and September featuring guest bloggers on her blog to celebrate the 2 year anniversary of her blog and of WordPress.com. (By the way, you might see me do an entry on there later on this month…) Today’s guest-blogged article is a very interesting article by Edrei Zahari all about personal blogging, including how personal blogging has been under-appreciated, along with tips for what really makes a personal blog one that readers would be interested in. He really emphasizes how it’s a blog about yourself and your personal life, but it’s written with an audience in mind–not so that you cater your posts to what the audience wants, but that you write in a style that the audience can relate to. This article really strikes a chord with many of the philosophies that I’ve had behind the production of this blog, and it’s really good to see my ideas written down in this article. I highly recommend that you go check it out.

Tags: article, Blogging, Connections, Lorelle VanFossen, Personal, tips, WordPress