skitch is the application I dreamed of when blogging or managing web site content. The idea is simple and it was just waiting to be developped : skitch is a light picture / image processing software and webservice that does the save, screen grab and gives you a few tools to work on the image, and finally upload the result to your ftp or an online host on skitch.com, while loading your desktop cut/paste buffer with the url : the final task you have to perform now is to go back to your favourite online cms and place the image. I know that sounds long but beleive me this is much faster than working with Photoshop, saving the immage locally and uploading it via your administration. Oh, detail : skitch is available for mac only.

I recently started working with Aptana Studio after spending years on Dreamweaver  : one can only find advantages for such a migration. Aptana Studio, distributed freely, stands the comparison and comes with additional features worth trying. Here I write down some quick elements of comparison.

• both handle righ clik FTP uploading : Aptana via the synchronisation menu and Dreamweaver via the profile configuration. I have found that my dreamweaver version (v8) sometimes forget FTP user and password configuration : this last bug was actually my main reason for trying out APTANA studio !!
• XML validation : the default DTD validation parser in Aptana seems to have a bug : won’t find the declared DTD for a XML file that stands in the same folder …
• PHP function browser : the PHP PDT eclipse extension works in Aptana and delivers wonderful class and function browser. Very useful ! 
• Project wide search : Aptana allows you to work while it’s searching, while Dreamweaver (v8) freeezes until it has found all occurences. But aptana doesn’t have multi line search.
• Memory usage (Windows XP) : I compared both softwares executing with one file open. On this point Dreamweaver has an advantage. If you can’t afford heavy JAVA memory usage (250 Mb) for Aptana, then you might think of lighter Dreamweaver (50Mb).

no more chrashing browser because of a single flash app freezing : multi threading is a feature that seems to drive google’s new browser imminent release, but not the only one. Google says “new applications have been deployed since browser were invented so we needed to rewrite the whole thing from scratch”. More today with press conference scheduled at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters Tuesday at 11 a.m. PDT.