{"id":541,"date":"2011-08-17T21:25:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T02:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2011-08-17T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T02:29:13","slug":"closed-source-software-i-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/closed-source-software-i-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed-source software I use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve said before, I like using open source software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/open-source-for-school\/\" target=\"_blank\">whenever I can<\/a>. So what close-sourced software do I use? Here&#8217;s the list below the jump:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adobe Lightroom: Really the best software for cataloging and processing digital RAW files. There are some open-source RAW file handlers, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybercom.net\/~dcoffin\/dcraw\/\" target=\"_blank\">dcraw<\/a>, but Lightroom has it all in one handy package and I find it really can&#8217;t be matched. I do still use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GIMP<\/a>, though, for bitmap twiddling.<\/li>\n<li>iTunes: I&#8217;ve got too many playlists and ratings in here to switch to something else.<\/li>\n<li>Quicken: The software on this list I truly hate. Again, it&#8217;s an issue of simply having too much data to move anywhere else: 15 years of financial data with tens of thousands of transactions is a tough nut to crack. Quicken is the only software I know of that routinely gets worse with every iteration, and they make you pay for a new version about every three years or so. If there was a good alternative that handled all these transactions and did online banking, I&#8217;d use it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s about it for software I use regularly that isn&#8217;t open source. As you can see, a pretty short list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve said before, I like using open source software whenever I can. So what close-sourced software do I use? Here&#8217;s the list below the jump:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-2","tag-open-source","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}