I am not easily impressed by pieces of software. It’s just too easy to write user-unfriendly software such that they are more abundant than they should be. My most recent excitements include Google Earth, which satisfies your inner desire to peek into other people’s backyard, and Parallels, which lets you emulate hell in heaven (no I mean run windows on Mac).

My latest infatuation is Coda by Panic, a long time Mac development company. Coda is a beefed-up text editor that lets you develop your software (mainly web site software) in style. Its interface is incredibly smoothly delicious, and about 10 times better than the industrial standard of Dreamweaver. I am seriously considering switching over. Oh, let’s not forget the price of Coda is $79 USD! Man, I hope the Dreamweaver developers are peeing in their pants, because they need to pick up their act soon.

There are a few features that I would love to see in Coda though. Panic, please add in a “collapse lines” feature that could be found in Dreamweaver 8. The same goes for CSS editing. Being able to collapse a few CSS items into folders and groups is a very neat way or organising them. You may pick up a few clues from CSSEdit from MacRabbit, which is another delicious app. Oh, speak of delicious, readers, you should check out Delicious Library by Delicious Monster for another totally sweeet app (yes, that’s 3 e’s).

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