Mac entries
Safari and Content Sniffing
It took two years, but Apple has finally taken steps to limit Safari’s content-sniffing ways; Safari now displays certain documents that have text/plain headers as plain text rather than...
published on Wednesday, January 11 2006 ( 1 comment )
Colour Management in OSX
After hearing about how I lusted after Bob’s D100 in Japan last November, Anitra kindly splurged on a Nikon D50 for my birthday, and I was re-introduced to serious...
published on Sunday, January 8 2006 ( 3 comments )
Core Image Fun House
Am I just behind, or is Core Image Fun House the coolest thing ever? With Core Image, Apple has basically built Photoshop into the OS, except that all of...
published on Monday, July 18 2005 ( 6 comments )
Memory, Sweet Memory...
Just added a 512M module to the Powerbook for a total of 1G (was 768M), for a pittance — $79! — courtesy of Amazon. Everything’s much snappier, especially Eclipse; I...
published on Wednesday, March 30 2005 ( 5 comments )
Corporate Citizenship
Apple is making an executive summary of the 9/11 commission report and the major speeches from the Democratic National Convention available for free on the iTunes Music Store. They deserve...
published on Friday, July 30 2004
Web-izing The Finder
Timbl has talked about Web-izing databases and languages; what about operating systems? Despite Microsoft’s legal troubles brought about trying to integrate the browser into Windows, it’s a good idea. Here’s...
published on Sunday, July 18 2004 ( 2 comments )
Safari as HTML Editor?
Surfin’ Safari hints that the next version of WebCore will be able to edit as well as render HTML. Does this mean that we’ll soon see Safari sport an “edit”...
published on Saturday, July 3 2004
Rename with Date.applescript
Hey mac fans — I need to track changes in a lot of documents, so I’ve cobbled together a simple AppleScript that renames the Finder’s selected files with the date:...
published on Friday, May 28 2004
iTunes
I’ve got to say that iTunes 4.5 is scary addictive. Usually, I have a problem in buying music, because by the time I get to the record shop, I forget...
published on Wednesday, May 5 2004 ( 3 comments )
More Software that Everybody Should Download
Spike is a networked clipboard that allows you to easily share text, pictures and other interesting things with others near and far. The nice part is that a) it uses...
published on Tuesday, April 13 2004
The Powerbook is Dead; Long Live the Powerbook
I’ve just got back from a two-week business trip, during which my 15” Titanium Powerbook showed increasing signs of shaking off this mortal coil. Specifically, the bottom 1/3 of the...
published on Friday, March 5 2004 ( 1 comment )
Video Chat — It’s Here
We’ve been playing with iChat AV, and I’ve got to say that it puts video chat in the same class as E-Mail and Web; killer app. This isn’t video chat...
published on Monday, February 9 2004 ( 2 comments )
Officially Unofficial
Rod Chavez has posted an article about running BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 on OSX to O’Reilly. It’s really, really cool that this works, and I’ve had the entire platform (including...
published on Thursday, January 8 2004
Mail.app and X-Faces
Mail already shows you a little picture of someone when they’re in your address book. Why doesn’t it send and display X-Faces? Can somebody write a plugin to do this?...
published on Saturday, January 3 2004 ( 1 comment )
Cool OS X Software roundup
Small apps that make my life much, much easier: Kung-Log — Weblog writing and management, off-line (thanks, John) Shrook — RSS reader extraordinary Address Book — Yes, it comes with...
published on Monday, December 15 2003 ( 7 comments )
Oh, for shame, Apple, for shame.
mnot-laptop:~> uname -a Darwin localhost.local 7.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.0.0: Wed Sep 24 15:48:39 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-517.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc mnot-laptop:~> echo "<a href='/'>test</a>" > ~/Sites/test.txt mnot-laptop:~> chmod a+r...
published on Wednesday, December 10 2003 ( 3 comments )
iPod update
Our problems continue. We took advantage of the $39.90 restocking fee to upgrade to the new 20G iPod; no difference at all in the battery behaviour (although the circle pad...
published on Wednesday, September 10 2003
The 'i' stands for 'idiot'
I got Anitra an iPod (an intensely desirable object) last week, because the new car (new to us, at least) doesn't have a CD player, and she's got a long...
published on Monday, August 25 2003
Switcher
I'm very happy to say that, after using Windows on the desktop for about a year, and various flavours of Unix on the desktop for about six years, I've Switched...
published on Tuesday, July 15 2003 ( 10 comments )
The Genius Bar is dry
Don't get me wrong - I love Apple and all things apple. But, the Genius bar at the Apple Store never fails to annoy. Every time I go in with...
published on Sunday, May 4 2003 ( 5 comments )
Mail.app broken?
One of the joys of moving to a mac for my personal machine is using Apple's excellent Mail.app; IMHO it's the best GUI mail client yet. However, I'm having a...
published on Saturday, May 3 2003 ( 1 comment )
ZeroConf is cool
Anybody know how to get ZeroConf working on Linux, so that I can advertise services on my server to the Macs at home?...
published on Thursday, May 1 2003 ( 5 comments )
Switching
Aaron points out the Apple Switch commercial starring Yo Yo Ma. Cool; how long before we see a Switch ad with TBL? :)...
published on Wednesday, December 11 2002