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August 7, 2007

updates

BBEdit 8.7 and PithHelmet 2.7 beta released

Posted Aug. 7, ’07, 6:32 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software » Updates

BBEdit My text editor of choice is still the excellent BBEdit by Bare Bones software. It’s still my choice because it does everything I want in a text editor and makes those functions easily accessible. I have a license to TextMate kicking around, but, like Quicksilver, I find myself fighting with it more than getting productivity out of it. The just released version, 8.7, adds Lua support, improves Python support, and finally, oh happy day, adds session support, allowing the app to be launched with the documents it was quit with open. It even retains disk browser and FTP/SFTP browsers.

In browser news, PithHelmet 2.7 beta has been released. The new version was engineered specifically to work with the newish Safari 3 betas. I’m still bouncing between Camino and OmniWeb, but I certainly remember how essential PithHelmet was to my browsing experience. Ad filtering can make a huge difference on both page download time and CPU/memory resource. Hopefully the release of Safari 3 on Tiger will accelerate a Leopard compatible version.


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