Computers
Computers, gadgets & gizmos, technology in general.
Returning Photoshop’s luminosity mask keyboard shortcut
2006.03.10, 21:56 | Comments (5)
This drove me nuts for about a week.
Tigered
2005.05.01, 15:29 | Comments (12)
I’m not sure it’s the smartest thing in the world to install a major update to your operating system at 2:00 a.m. after you’ve helped a small dinner party consume four or five bottles of wine, but that’s what I did when I got home last night (um, this morning).
Siracusa on Tiger
2005.04.29, 14:59 | Comments (1)
Another major OS X release, another terrific article from John Siracusa.
Jef Raskin dies
2005.02.28, 01:27 | Comments (2)
Jef Raskin, one of the key figures in the development of the Macintosh computer, died Saturday.
SlideShowPro
2005.02.14, 23:19 | Comments (0)
Congratulations to Todd Dominey on the launch of SlideShowPro.
Tag:Hibiya
2005.01.17, 22:25 | Comments (3)
Technorati gets meta on me
Buddy, can you spare a hotspot?
2005.01.12, 19:38 | Comments (10)
A digital divide of a different kind.
WestCiv’s “Complete CSS Guide” on your iPod
2004.12.15, 23:22 | Comments (2)
This is a neat-o thing to do: WestCiv Software has created a version of their “Complete Guide to CSS” that can live on your iPod.
SideTrack: a driver for PowerBook and iBook trackpads
2004.11.27, 11:17 | Comments (0)
It’s good to be able to load a fair subset of those abilities right into the trackpad for when I’m standing up working with the PowerBook perched on top of the refrigerator.
iSighted
2004.11.17, 23:05 | Comments (6)
I’m enjoying this new iSight thing, but I can kind of see why videophones have never really taken off.
Ergonomic keyboard
2004.10.17, 23:11 | Comments (12)
On mine, I seem to recall it was the A key that would repeat about half a dozen times on a single press, while one or two other keys developed little idiosyncrasies of their own.
Protected memory
2004.10.03, 20:34 | Comments (7)
When duty calls.
BBAutoComplete 1.3
2004.09.22, 23:28 | Comments (2)
BBEdit afficiandos will be pleased to hear that Michael Tsai’s BBAutoComplete is now at version 1.3 — congratulations!
Macintosh considered dangerous!
2004.09.22, 22:06 | Comments (39)
Help needed! Looking for serious and authoritative rebuttals to demolish the argument that Macs are “dangerous” in large corporations.
New PowerBook on its way
2004.09.18, 14:31 | Comments (15)
My first new computer in years. I won’t be retiring the beloved Pismo any time soon, though.
BBEdit 8
2004.08.31, 01:04 | Comments (7)
BBEdit 8 has been released. Hosannah!
Another hammer
2004.08.22, 10:11 | Comments (1)
Steve Minutillo on no undo in Safari.
MT3 Developers Contest
2004.07.24, 11:04 | Comments (0)
Congratulations to the winners of the Plug In To Movable Type content.
Pixelpalooza 2004
2004.04.22, 10:06 | Comments (3)
The Iconfactory announces the winners of Pixelpalooza 2004.
Markdown
2004.03.11, 09:37 | Comments (11)
From the author of SmartyPants, a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.
FTTH
2004.02.28, 12:48 | Comments (8)
The broadband revolution was slow breaching the walls of this old house, but what may have been the last bastion of ISDN connectivity in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area fell yesterday…
Excellent favelets list
2004.02.15, 09:55 | Comments (3)
Sean Willson provides a great list of browser favelets that’s worth taking a look at.
Life Balance
2004.02.03, 23:01 | Comments (7)
I’m leaving a little Post-It to myself to check it out more thoroughly later, just as soon as I deal with these other things I’ve got to do over here.
Safari Displays Titles Properly!
2003.12.18, 23:05 | Comments (19)
I downloaded the 10.3.2 update for Mac OS today and just noticed that Safari now displays title attributes in little ‘tool tips’ type text boxes just like other browsers.
FruitMenu Supports Panther
2003.12.17, 10:05 | Comments (0)
I was having a hard time getting by without FruitMenu, but I no longer have to.
Synchronised Data
2003.12.04, 23:08 | Comments (4)
Neat-o backup and file synching utility ChronoSync goes to 2.0.
Pictures of the Apple Store, Ginza
2003.11.30, 20:07 | Comments (19)
Well, pictures of the outside of the store. I wasn’t going to queue for more than 3 city blocks to get in. It was, as predicted, a madhouse.
Apple Releases 42-inch Plasma iMac
2003.11.18, 23:58 | Comments (17)
Exclusive picture.
Take Control of Panther
2003.11.12, 21:45 | Comments (7)
Haven’t installed Panther yet and wondering about the best way to go about it? Or you’ve installed it just fine and now it’s time to figure out all the groovy things you can do to customise it?
Alera Digital Photo Copy Cruiser
2003.11.11, 21:42 | Comments (5)
This could be interesting: Alera’s Digital Photo Copy Cruiser copies photographs from common media cards directly to CD without a computer.
Date Set for Apple Store in Ginza
2003.11.05, 00:14 | Comments (9)
Guess I know where I’ll be Sunday morning, November 30.
Panthered
2003.11.02, 22:05 | Comments (22)
Speaking of big cats, the ol’ Pismo was Panthered a few days ago. I swore I wasn’t going to install Mac OS 10.3 yet — too busy, deadlines, must develop a sense of responsibility and so on — but, naturally, who could wait?
Belkin Card Reader Review
2003.10.24, 09:36 | Comments (6)
Possible problems with the Belkin Media Reader with larger Compact Flash cards?
Adobe’s Creative Suite
2003.09.29, 15:18 | Comments (5)
MacCentral has an article on Adobe’s soon to be released Creative Suite.
Somewhat Infinite
2003.09.26, 23:10 | Comments (6)
On Dell and its crappy Apple rip-offs.
Style Sheets Are the Faces of the Web
2003.09.17, 16:29 | Comments (10)
Steven Frank puts his finger on something that’s been going through my mind lately: RSS feeds and click-throughs.
BBEdit Version Control
2003.09.09, 16:33 | Comments (2)
John Gruber has written a neat introduction to version control with BBEdit and CVS for MacWorld.
BBAutoComplete
2003.08.16, 12:54 | Comments (0)
You’ve probably seen this by now, but I’ve been meaning to mention that Michael Tsai’s BBAutoComplete is now at version 1.2.
John Treby’s iDesk
2003.08.14, 19:01 | Comments (3)
This new iMac-inspired desk looks pretty neat, but where do you put all your papers and books?
Griffin iTrip Apparently Illegal in UK
2003.07.31, 23:52 | Comments (21)
According to this story from Tony Smith in The Register, Griffin’s iTrip FM radio transmitter for the iPod appears to be illegal in the UK.
20th Century Voyage
2003.06.30, 12:01 | Comments (7)
Very cool screensaver for Mac OS X.
Linux Overtakes Macintosh, Film at 11
2003.06.27, 17:14 | Comments (5)
Always fun to read a good writer in full curmudge: John Gruber on Paul Boutin’s silly article
Bundle::DBI Available Here
2003.06.06, 16:08 | Comments (1)
I’m making Rob Giseburt’s Bundle::DBI package for Mac OS X available here because his server seems to be off the air at the moment. Rob, I hope this OK.
Choosing Battles Wisely
2003.06.03, 10:47 | Comments (2)
John Gruber on Apple’s declining to become the next Napster.
The Scrollwheels of Your Mind
2003.06.01, 12:02 | Comments (11)
Safari’s scrolling is scrolling how my mind works.
No More Bryce for Macintosh
2003.05.31, 20:41 | Comments (2)
Speaking of weather, in this case virtual renditions of it, MacCentral reports that Corel has announced it’s bailing on further Mac development of Bryce. Yappari, as they say.
MT Rebuild Mod
2003.05.20, 23:55 | Comments (2)
Verily there is much sweetness in the land these days. Sean Willson’s MT rebuild mod lets you control how each index template gets rebuilt.
404 to Search Page
2003.05.20, 23:50 | Comments (5)
When you try to access an address on a site that doesn’t exist, you get a 404 error. What you should get is an attempt to find the page you’re after and, if that doesn’t work, a search page where you can enter a string of your own devising. Thanks to this ingenious PHP snippet from Erik Barzeski that’s exactly what you can offer wayward visitors to your site.
Safari Displaying Source Code
2003.05.20, 23:13 | Comments (17)
When clicking on a link, Safari can sometimes display the source code for the page rather than the rendered result of the code. Hitting reload displays the page properly. Anyone have any info on this? I can’t find a lead anywhere.
Photopal 1.0 Beta
2003.05.14, 15:43 | Comments (3)
Photopal: image organization system featuring template driven layout, automatic thumbnail creation, RSS feeds, picture level EXIF date extraction, and picture level descriptions, all without the need for an SQL like database.
Annoying Bugs
2003.05.04, 00:31 | Comments (8)
Troubleshooting an annoying high-pitched sound from my computer turns out to be an interesting lesson in cognitive psychology and the miracle of binaural hearing.
Linking to the iTunes Music Store
2003.04.30, 15:39 | Comments (6)
Creating links into the iTunes Music Store
The Apple Music Store
2003.04.29, 13:36 | Comments (10)
Congrats to Apple on the new Music Store. I just wish I could use it from here in Japan.
Habeas Sues Spammers
2003.04.06, 18:05 | Comments (0)
Habeas, the company that aims to stop spam by embedding copyrighted and trademarked material in the headers of e-mail, is springing into action with cases against alleged infringers.
Daring Fireball Interviews Brent Simmons
2003.03.29, 22:13 | Comments (0)
John Gruber interviews Brent Simmons. (You’ve probably seen this, but if you haven’t, you should.)
Gore Joins Apple’s Board
2003.03.20, 09:26 | Comments (12)
Al Gore joins Apple’s board of directors. Earth-toned iMacs in stores soon?
Alcohol-Powered Laptops
2003.03.15, 20:21 | Comments (8)
Alcohol-powered laptops on the way
Mount.app
2003.03.15, 16:55 | Comments (1)
Mount.app by Scott Houchin is a fast and wonderful way to mount disk images in OS X.
Man Shoots Laptop
2003.03.07, 21:21 | Comments (7)
From the BBC: Man shoots laptop. Oh, those crazy Americans.
Camino 0.7
2003.03.07, 12:17 | Comments (14)
Camino 0.7 (formerly Chimera) was released yesterday
SmartyPants 1.2
2003.02.28, 11:26 | Comments (2)
SmartyPants 1.2 is here, bigger and better than ever.
BBEdit-Not-So-Lite
2003.02.28, 11:22 | Comments (0)
“BBEdit Junior” didn’t really grab me either, I must say.
Straights vs. Curlies
2003.02.22, 16:56 | Comments (3)
Grumblings can be heard concerning smart vs. dumb quotes on the web. SmartyPants author John Gruber makes the righteous case for the curlies. Bravo.
Farewell Chimera
2003.02.19, 23:47 | Comments (8)
Someone let the lawyers out and Chimera has to change its name.
Oh, the Irony
2003.02.11, 22:16 | Comments (16)
Kevin Mitnick has a company now called Defensive Thinking. It’s a security consultancy. Twice in the past two weeks hackers have broken into the site and left messages. Oops.
SmartyPants 1.1
2003.02.08, 12:12 | Comments (0)
SmartyPants 1.1 is here and it’s better than ever.
Dictionary Look-up from Chimera’s Toolbar
2003.01.20, 23:14 | Comments (13)
A toolbar bookmark for Chimera that does a word look-up on dictionary.com. Also one for the thesaurus.
Kung-Log
2003.01.20, 22:40 | Comments (3)
As you probably know by now, Kung-Log (post to MT sites from your desktop!) has been rewritten in Cocoa, Here’s a test post from the latest version (1.1).
Cat, Free to Good Home
2003.01.05, 23:27 | Comments (6)
Free to good home: beckoning cat icon (Mac OS X).
Accessorize Your iPod
2002.12.27, 23:37 | Comments (56)
Stopped by Sakuraya in Shinjuku this afternoon and saw this, um… accessory.
The Return of the Scapbook?
2002.12.27, 12:32 | Comments (4)
Will NetNewsWire bring back the Scrapbook?
Spammers Harvesting RSS
2002.12.22, 16:07 | Comments (14)
This was only a matter of time of course, but I’ve received the first piece of spam sent to an address that only appears in my RSS feeds.
Big Deal for QT in Japan
2002.12.11, 12:21 | Comments (0)
From CNet: Apple’s QuickTime is poised to make headway as an audio and video delivery platform for mobile phones in Japan, with new standards-compatible software on its way and a fresh endorsement by leading wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo.
MacWorld Tokyo Cancelled!
2002.12.05, 22:51 | Comments (2)
MacWorld Tokyo 2003 cancelled!?
XHTML vs. RSS
2002.11.30, 21:47 | Comments (19)
From somebodydial911:
If you’ve gone through the effort of marking up your site in XHTML, you’ve gotta be asking yourself when some of the payoff is supposed to occur.
The “Finder”
2002.11.27, 23:16 | Comments (3)
From DaringFireball.net, an excellent summary of what’s wrong with the Finder in OS X.
SnipSnap
2002.11.24, 21:34 | Comments (0)
SnipSnap (http://snipsnap.org) is using the RSS syndication buttons I gave away here a while back. This makes me feel good.
Starry Night Arrives
2002.11.18, 23:12 | Comments (0)
Just in time for the Leonids, my copy of Starry Night arrived today. The biggest changes are to the…
Greeting from 10.2.2
2002.11.12, 23:45 | Comments (3)
Mac OS 10.2.2 is out. Links to the standalone updaters included.
Starry Night 4
2002.11.11, 11:46 | Comments (4)
Starry Night (fantastic desktop astronomy software) bumped to OS X-native version 4.
Transmit and BBEdit: Together Again!
2002.11.09, 15:41 | Comments (3)
Transmit and BBEdit: Two great apps that go great together.
And Speaking of Browsers…
2002.11.05, 21:42 | Comments (7)
Could IE6 be obeying some standards better than anything else? A bizarre hypothesis awaits proof.
Chimera 0.6
2002.11.05, 21:16 | Comments (0)
Chimera 0.6 is out. The download link seems to be busted, however. I happened to download the latest nightly build…
IE666: The Browser of the Beast
2002.11.05, 01:38 | Comments (9)
I spent the afternoon huddled in a café drinking terrible coffee (hey, it was highly caffeinated and the refills were…
Greedy Photoshop
2002.11.03, 17:02 | Comments (5)
Anyone know why Photoshop 7 gets greedy with CPU usage when idle under OS X?
IE(PC): A Quick Note
2002.10.30, 21:58 | Comments (3)
In which I barely restrain myself from exploding in rage and frustration at the bug-infested piece of crap that is Internet Explorer on the PC.
Pismos of the World, Unite!
2002.10.26, 11:53 | Comments (5)
The Pismo PowerBook is shaping up to be one of those workhorse machines that Apple comes up with every once…
Buttons Redux: Tweakability
2002.10.25, 23:41 | Comments (25)
Dave Winer wrote on Scripting News this morning about variations in the orange XML button: Please don’t tweak the little…
A Special Place in My Hard Drive
2002.10.24, 18:02 | Comments (4)
I saw a great sig file at the bottom of a newsgroup posting once that said “Don’t anthropomorphize computers: they…
RSS Buttons
2002.10.23, 21:34 | Comments (3)
The RSS Validator was asking for 88*31px buttons (too chunky!), and I sent these along today – too late for…
Steal These Buttons
2002.10.22, 23:36 | Comments (77)
Not being very clever or technically inclined, I’m disappointed that I can’t bestow some brilliant gift on the web…
RSS Validation
2002.10.22, 18:29 | Comments (0)
Congratulations to Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby on the launch of their RSS Validator. <envy>How clever.</envy>…
Some Apple/IDG Sanity
2002.10.22, 09:54 | Comments (0)
John Gruber brings some much-needed perspective to the Apple/IDG spat. Typically trenchant quote: This is like being faced by a…
ChimerIcon
2002.10.13, 20:33 | Comments (1)
I just discovered ChimerIcon today which lets you change the appearance of Chimera (which, like everyone else, I’m starting to…
Internet Explorer Madness
2002.10.11, 23:58 | Comments (7)
I rarely use IE these days and now that I’ve dusted it off to test the new design it seems…
Canon Help Desk Recording
2002.10.05, 13:10 | Comments (22)
A friend sent me this alleged recording of a call to the Canon help desk which I haven’t found floating…
iSync Poetry
2002.09.29, 16:05 | Comments (2)
The Macintoshian Achaia iSync thread alerts us to this perfect snippet in the release notes for the 1.0 beta. Important:…
FOAF 2 Vcard
2002.09.23, 23:16 | Comments (0)
Jim Ley’s FOAF 2 Vcard takes a FOAF file and turns it into a Vcard (which you can drag and…
FOAF
2002.09.23, 22:14 | Comments (3)
Got a FOAF file? Mine’s here. You can generate one FOAF-a-matically thanks to Leigh Dodds: FOAF-a-matic – Describe yourself in…
TigerLaunch 1.0b3
2002.09.21, 10:47 | Comments (0)
Brent Simmons has released TigerLaunch 1.0b3, a free application launcher for OS X that provides a menu to access…
The Great .Mac Debate Continues
2002.09.19, 11:13 | Comments (6)
If you convert an iTools account to a .Mac account before September 30, it will cost you $49 for a…
10.2.1
2002.09.19, 10:08 | Comments (1)
As everyone with OS X knows by now, the first update to Jaguar, 10.2.1, is out (check the Software Update…
Misguided Customers
2002.09.19, 10:03 | Comments (0)
Steven Frank, a co-founder of Panic.com (makers of Audion, Transmit and CandyBar) has a weblog on which he’s provided a…
Proto-smiley
2002.09.13, 23:43 | Comments (1)
I guess smiley archaeology was just a matter of time. The First Smiley The smiley and its many variants are…
iCal: A Mini-Review
2002.09.11, 01:26 | Comments (1)
Apple released iCal today, an “elegant personal calendar application that helps you manage your life and your time better…
Siracusa’s Jag Review
2002.09.05, 20:01 | Comments (0)
John Siracusa of Ars Technica has been covering Mac OS X with wit and insight since its release. I’ve been…
Educated Quotes Nirvana (Almost)
2002.09.02, 23:05 | Comments (1)
John Gruber has solved the quote problem. I mentioned a week or so back here about trying to get Brad…
The Happy Mac Lives!
2002.09.01, 21:36 | Comments (0)
I suspected this was only a matter of time, but Ryan Schmidt seems to be first past the post with…
An End to Spam Pinging in MT
2002.09.01, 21:16 | Comments (2)
John Biesnecker posted a neat hack to stop spam pinging in the latest version of Movable Type. By adding a…
Nasty Finder Bug in 10.2
2002.09.01, 21:01 | Comments (2)
…or Night of the Living Desktop Back in April I stopped using the Desktop based on a tip that turning…
Farewell, Happy Mac
2002.08.27, 01:40 | Comments (10)
An icon is dead. For as long as any of us have been using Macs, the Happy Mac startup…
The Wonderful and Infuriating Mail.app
2002.08.27, 00:20 | Comments (3)
A week ago I set up Spam Assassin which required me to move to Apple’s Mail.app which can (or could)…
Snaguar with Jaguar
2002.08.26, 23:45 | Comments (0)
Well, I’m Jagged (and loving it) but the installation didn’t exactly go smoothly. I used the Archive & Install option…
TrackBack and Validation: Getting It Straight
2002.08.23, 09:30 | Comments (2)
Tomas made a good comment in response to my last post. I said TrackBack “seems to break XHTML validation” to…
TrackBacks Break Validation?
2002.08.22, 23:59 | Comments (1)
Uh-oh. Slight problem with TrackBack; it seems to break XHTML validation: TrackBack Development One of the issues with TrackBack currently…
Setting Up Trackback
2002.08.22, 23:36 | Comments (1)
Made some moves tonight to get TrackBack working here. Ought to finish things up tomorrow. Movable Type maintains a TrackBack…
Pismo Out in the Cold?
2002.08.21, 10:05 | Comments (7)
MacFixIt ran mail from someone trying to install Jaguar on their Pismo which they’d bumped up to 768 MB of…
MS ‘Web Fonts’ Pulled
2002.08.19, 16:55 | Comments (0)
On the eve of LinuxWorld Microsoft pulled its free ‘web fonts’ (Verdana, Georgia, et al) citing one bizarre reason –…
Warstorming
2002.08.19, 11:10 | Comments (0)
This has already been slashdotted, but I post it here in the local-boys-make-good category. Some blokes from my home town…
Spam Assassin
2002.08.16, 12:20 | Comments (0)
You probably know that Ben Trott of Movable Type fame has written a set of instructions for installing Spam Assassin…
Kung-Log
2002.08.05, 21:04 | Comments (0)
This little test is being posted from Kung-Log, an application which allows posting to Movable Type sites without having to…
Image Worries #2
2002.08.02, 22:51 | Comments (0)
The 1.1b release of Mozilla does not exhibit the image problem I mentioned earlier, so maybe it is a 1.0…
Image Worries
2002.08.01, 20:26 | Comments (0)
I’ve noticed that some of the images I’ve been posting recently don’t seem to show up or, if they do,…
Jaguar
2002.07.18, 09:59 | Comments (8)
OK, the box for the new version of Mac OS X is very cute… I had to laugh. But…
Oops… New PowerMac?
2002.07.12, 15:06 | Comments (10)
MacSlash has a post today where someone reports that a French company may have made an ATI-style boo-boo by…
Anti-Palladium
2002.07.03, 16:35 | Comments (16)
A thread at MacSlash on Apple And Digital Rights Management contains the best and most concise explanation of Palladium and…
VersignOff
2002.06.29, 22:42 | Comments (1)
Via Splorp comes news of this latest thorn in Versign’s side, VerisignOff.org. The goal of VerisignOff is to help…
RSS Feeds: The Long and Short of It
2002.06.28, 10:24 | Comments (0)
If you’re like me (and I know I am), there are lots of sites you visit on a daily basis….
AmphetaDesk and the XML Feed
2002.06.23, 01:33 | Comments (4)
Many thanks to M. Sinclair Stevens for pointing out that the v0.91 XML feed doesn’t work with AmphetaDesk. You’ll need…
Amphetadesk for Mac OS X
2002.06.18, 09:19 | Comments (0)
Amphetadesk is a free, cross-platform XML newsfeed aggregator which is now available for Mac OS X. It’s currently at version…
The Worst Pun I’ve Heard in Ages
2002.06.12, 18:22 | Comments (4)
If you were going to make a Macintosh application that let’s you print blank sheet music, what would you call…
Cocoa Formatting Trick
2002.06.07, 23:42 | Comments (0)
A Mac OS X Hints reader posted an interesting tip today about being able to copy and paste formatting between…
Mozilla CSS Bug List
2002.06.07, 20:46 | Comments (4)
James at ordinary-life.net provides a link to a very thorough list of CSS1 bugs in Mozilla. A quick scan shows…
Silk & Quartz Text Rendering
2002.06.07, 16:47 | Comments (0)
Silk is a freeware prefs pane from the clever people at Unsanity Software which enables the Quartz text rendering and…
Moz 1.0
2002.06.06, 08:38 | Comments (0)
Mozilla 1.0 is out. I’ve been using rc3 as my main browser for the last month and despite a few…
CD Session Burner
2002.06.05, 21:41 | Comments (3)
CD Session Burner by James Sentman does one handy little thing and does it well; it burns multiple sessions…
RSS Auto-discovery
2002.06.05, 18:25 | Comments (2)
RSS auto-discovery is catching on….
Beneath the Scroll Wheel
2002.06.05, 18:09 | Comments (1)
If you’ve ever been curious as to what’s underneath, this is what I found after gently removing the iPod’s…
Xbox Live
2002.05.21, 19:12 | Comments (2)
MS goes for control, Disneyesque experience for Xbox Live By John Lettice, The Register Microsoft still has time not to…
Dear IE6(Win) Viewers…
2002.05.16, 00:22 | Comments (3)
Sincere thanks to those of you who’ve written pointing out that the font selector on the right-hand side of this…
Mac vs. PC Redux
2002.05.15, 15:22 | Comments (3)
Some clichés are always worth revisiting. zAmboni posts a faint Eco of Umberto’s famous “MAC vs DOS” column* on Ars…
Cracking CD Protection
2002.05.15, 02:56 | Comments (15)
On the subject of copy protection (ahem), I’m sure you’ve all seen this story (about which method The Register suggests…
Style Sheet Updates & Caching
2002.05.15, 00:36 | Comments (3)
Scott at www.darklemon.com wrote to tell me about some style sheet monkey business you may have noticed. I made some…
The Back-up Conundrum
2002.05.09, 22:35 | Comments (2)
I periodically back-up the entire contents of my web server to a local volume. I haven’t automated this yet (although…
Chimera vs. OmniWeb
2002.05.09, 16:19 | Comments (3)
Chimera is a stand-alone Cocoa browser, is “aimed at delivering a best-of-breed browser on the OS X platform.” It…
Need More Proof That Microsoft is Fucked Up?
2002.05.07, 23:40 | Comments (0)
Now this is funny. Compulsory Windows: for Macs, and people without PCs?John Lettice, The Register Microsoft has come up with…
Bamboozled by Google
2002.05.06, 21:42 | Comments (7)
I usually use Google’s JavaScript browser toolbar widget to do searches and so don’t often go directly to google.com. Last…
Extremely Tidy Desktop
2002.04.30, 19:06 | Comments (0)
I’ve turned off the Desktop to test whether a recent tip on MacOSXHints works; that doing this results in…
Zingg!
2002.04.25, 23:16 | Comments (0)
One of the utilities I miss most, having made the move to OS X, is FinderPop, specifically the ability to…
Just Because You Can
2002.04.03, 23:22 | Comments (3)
…doesn’t mean you should. Speaking of icons, most of the OS X icons I’ve seen remind me of a line…
MS .Net Demo Reveals Personal Info
2002.03.28, 00:45 | Comments (0)
Some headlines are just too perfect: Microsoft .NET promo reveals personal info Andrew Orlowski, The Register…
One More iMac Pic
2002.03.23, 11:34 | Comments (3)
One more iMac pic. They looked so cute sitting there together. This was taken at the Oki booth which…
More on MacWorld
2002.03.23, 11:23 | Comments (1)
Here’s the now-obligatory MacWorld perspective shot of a row of computers lined up on a backlit display. I’m not…
Found Haiku in Text Files
2002.03.14, 01:15 | Comments (2)
haiku discovers “Found Haiku” (a trademark of Don Marti)* in plain text files. Oblomovka via Boing Boing software are designed…
PS7 for OS X on Slashdot
2002.02.24, 23:27 | Comments (1)
Of course there’s a Slashdot thread on the new version of Photoshop….
Draw on Your Desktop
2002.02.24, 23:02 | Comments (1)
Desktastic is a small free app that does one thing; it turns your mouse into a magic marker in…
PS7 Getting Closer
2002.02.24, 22:53 | Comments (0)
Adobe unveils Photoshop 7.0 for Mac OS X maccentral.com Adobe Systems Inc. today will unveil one of the most important…
Tables vs. CSS
2002.02.14, 19:40 | Comments (7)
Ye Olde Tables vs. CSS Debate Rages On
Mac OS X: The Missing Manual
2002.02.09, 21:47 | Comments (0)
My copy of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual arrived a couple of days ago and is already dog-eared and…
Photoshop for OS X: Q2 ‘02
2001.12.18, 13:22 | Comments (0)
Adobe CEO: Photoshop for OS X coming in Q2MacCentral Adobe Systems Inc. has slowly but surely been implementing support for…
Big Day for OS X Shareware
2001.12.18, 12:05 | Comments (0)
Some great shareware releases today
Exporting i-mode
2001.12.17, 11:56 | Comments (0)
While i-mode is undoubtedly a well-designed and marketed service, its rise is intimately tied to the Japanese marketplace
iBook Otaku
2001.12.16, 12:42 | Comments (0)
Some people go to extraordinary lengths to customise their machines, and nowhere is this truer than in Japan. Dr. Mip…
OmniWeb Not-Quite-Redux
2001.12.16, 12:02 | Comments (0)
OmniWeb: don’t even bother worrying about how it does CSS for now…
Podded
2001.12.15, 23:33 | Comments (3)
My search for a portable mp3 player has ended: I’m podded.
AmphetaDesk
2001.12.15, 16:47 | Comments (0)
AmphetaDesk is a cross-platform news aggregator built in PERL & XML which displays feeds in a browser window. Looks interesting….
A Whole Lot of Wireless
2001.12.11, 21:34 | Comments (0)
Wireless internet users approach 50 million in Japan
Photoshop 7 Beta?
2001.12.11, 21:09 | Comments (3)
Is this a screenshot from Photoshop 7 beta?
OmniWeb
2001.12.08, 23:21 | Comments (3)
If you’re using OmniWeb and seeing poorly formatted crap (as opposed to well-formatted crap), well… you’re probably long gone. But if you’ve stuck around, I’m working on it.
Netscape 6.2.1
2001.12.08, 23:12 | Comments (2)
Netscape 6.2.1 for OS X… problems
E-mail: 30th Anniversary
2001.12.07, 10:07 | Comments (0)
The 30-Year Path of E-Mailnytimes.com Thirty years ago, give or take a month or two, Ray Tomlinson, an unassuming computer…
LCD iMacs Soon?
2001.12.05, 21:33 | Comments (0)
In the believe-it-when-you-see-it department, this article from The Register: Apple finally ready to launch LCD iMac - analysts Apple will…
Macitecture
2001.12.05, 09:45 | Comments (0)
How are architects currently using Macs? What types of software and tools are available that practitioners need? What are the major compatibility issues between Macs and PCs?
Eddy Award Winners
2001.12.04, 09:35 | Comments (0)
Macworld names Eddy Award winners
Moving to Mac OS X
2001.12.01, 23:20 | Comments (0)
Long-ish thread on macslash.com about the kinds of users likely to adopt OS X in the short run. Worth a…
Everyone’s a Lawyer
2001.12.01, 00:12 | Comments (0)
Everyone’s a lawyer when there’s a free OS to be had. If you want my 2¢ (which at lawyer’s rates…
Flash On Your Phone. I Can’t Wait!
2001.11.30, 00:59 | Comments (0)
During his stay in Japan in mid-November, Elop also said in an interview that Macromedia would focus more on the interaction with Web services provided in the .NET environment of Microsoft Corp.
Trash X
2001.11.29, 23:33 | Comments (1)
Trash X from Northern Softworks puts the trashcan back on the OS X desktop, just like Classic. A good idea,…
Au revoir, Microsoft?
2001.11.28, 17:47 | Comments (0)
MacNN reports that France is banning Windows from government officces, and that England is expected to do the same. The…
Hitchhikers Guide to Mac OS X
2001.11.27, 09:54 | Comments (2)
Rob Griffiths of Mac OS X Hints has released a 60-page Mac OS X Solutions Guidebook in PDF format. The…
Breeding Computers
2001.11.22, 18:27 | Comments (1)
Here’s a story that’s getting lots of attention: Scientists build tiny computer from DNA By Patricia Reaney, Reuters Following Mother…
More on Microsoft
2001.11.06, 18:29 | Comments (0)
Doc Searls talks about the MS settlement on his weblog, concluding with the following paragraph: This whole legal exercize has…
State-sanctioned Illegal Monopoly. Right On!
2001.11.05, 16:08 | Comments (0)
Full text of proposed final judgment in United States v. Microsoft Cnet.com With the case expertly stalled to allow for…
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