This post comments Kieran Healy’s list [copy] of indispensable applications. I do not present my list as better, just different: different applications reflect different workflows. The following graph1 roughly sketches my usual way of using my (Apple Macintosh) computer:

This graph indicates that I depend very much on Mac OS X applications, hence every little improvement [...]

I use the now defunct Acronym Replacer by Joel Bennett of Huddled Masses. Since I do not need any text replacement apart for acronyms, the incentive to move forward to Ubernyms is quite low as far as I am concerned.
I just added a functionality to Acronym Replacer 2.8. In addition to wrapping acronyms with the [...]

Une partie de l’article sur le CPE à l’IEP de Grenoble a disparu suite à un reformatage très imprudent du WYSIWYG de WordPress, utilisé à partir de Mozilla Firefox. Je me sers habituellement d’Apple Safari (sous lequel le WYSIWYG ne fonctionne pas, à défaut de composants AJAX suffisamment évolués). Utiliser Firefox m’a donc coûté plusieurs [...]