A few gems I stumbled on while surfing this week:
Gruml: I switched from Bloglines to Google News long ago as my RSS reader of choice. But although Google News was superior for managing my feeds, I missed Bloglines’ user interface. Gruml gives me the best of both worlds, allowing me to read and manage Google News through Gruml. I’ve been using it for a few days now, and the only thing I’m not liking about it is the email function. I constantly email items I find in feeds to friends, and Google News makes that very simple. Gruml has that feature, but I don’t like it as much. It sends the URL to the feed and in a sample I just sent, the URL was so long it broke and wasn’t clickable in the email. I think I can live with that, but it’s a glitch I’d like to see fixed. The app currently is free. Definitely worth a test drive if you use Google News on the Mac.
Witch: Most Mac users quickly learn the command-tab trick to toggle among open apps. Witch puts this on steroids, allowing you to toggle not only among apps, but also among open documents in apps. I’ve been using it for a few days and fully intend to pay the $15 they want for it. The demo version works for 250 switches, and then a payment nag starts popping up. I tried using Mac’s Spaces to solve this problem but always found it weird and buggy. Witch allows me to hop from item to item on my computer fluidly. It’s a keeper.