Peter Baer Galvin (http://www.galvin.info) is the Chief Technologist for Corporate Technologies, a premier systems integrator and VAR (www.cptech.com). Before that, Peter was the systems manager for Brown University’s Computer Science Department.
He has written articles and columns for many publications, and is currently Sun columnist for ;login: magazine (www.usenix.org/publications/login/). He is coauthor of the Operating Systems Concepts and Applied Operating Systems Concepts text-
books (www.os-book.com). As a consultant and trainer, Peter teaches tutorials and gives talks on security and system administration worldwide.
Note that i took the photos that are displayed in the banner – photography is one of my hobbies.
Get in touch with me via email: peter @ galvin.info or on facebook as Peter Baer Galvin.
Hi Peter,
I too am an application addict and like you when I search VT I look at the last update, the ratings and number of downloads to evaluate how promising an application might be.
What frustrated me was that the applications where not organized in a useful manner. I would like to see all “Chatting” applications, all apps that will let me “Scan” documents, etc etc…
To overcome this problem I started a the OS X Software Map Project, which can be found at http://www.efficientmac.com/project/os_x_software_map_project
Right now I have just started populating it with applications that I use but I would be curious to hear your ideas and opinions given our similar interest!
All the best,
Nik