There are a few things that bother me about Apple and OS X. I’ve been a Mac user for almost three years, coming from a long history of Windows use. There were certain things I was used to having in a default installation of Windows. I’m not talking about those superficial things that most OS fanboys get caught up in arguing about. I’m talking about things that should be standard across all operating systems.
It goes both ways. There are things standard in Windows that I think should definitely be in OS X, and vise versa. One of those things is a standard, simple paint application. Something you can knock out a drawing in without dropping hundreds of dollars and wasting precious system resources on bloated software you’ll never use.
If Apple aren’t going to include it, fine. Surely there’s something out there that will suffice? Well, I found it. In only a matter of seconds, too. I’m amazed I found it so quickly, because I would thought I’d have found it long ago.
Paintbrush is exactly what I think Apple should include in OS X. And it’s exactly what I was looking for. It’s simple, it’s lightweight, and best of all it’s free. I’m a bit of a software junkie when it comes to OS X, and I really love when I find free stuff. Especially free stuff that’s really awesome.
The other thing that really bothers me about OS X is that all it comes with is Chess.app as far as games go. I know that as Mac users we’re supposed to be intellectual, creative, arty farty types who’d love the smell of Einstein’s shit, but… I’m still positive there are only two Mac users in existence who actually know how to play the damn game.
And now that got on the subject of games, I might as well share a game for OS X that I found a couple months ago. It’s called Quinn. What’s Quinn? It’s “A Tetromino Game for Mac OS X.”
…that means Tetris.
