Wednesday, 11 January 2006
Mac
Sunday, 8 January 2006
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 photography.Monday, 18 July 2005
Core Image Fun House
Am I just behind, or is Core Image Fun House the coolest thing ever?Wednesday, 30 March 2005
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.Friday, 30 July 2004
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 a lot of praise for this, and I hope they continue this practice.Sunday, 18 July 2004
Web-izing The Finder
Timbl has talked about Web-izing databasesand languages; what about operating systems? Despite Microsoft’s legal troubles brought about trying to integrate the browser into Windows, it’s a good idea.Saturday, 3 July 2004
Safari as HTML Editor?
Surfin’ Safari hints that the next version of WebCore will be able to edit as well as render HTML.Tuesday, 13 April 2004
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.Friday, 5 March 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 screen kept on flickering white. At first, I was able to tap the screen to make it better, but as time went on, tapping became hitting, and by the end, it was unresponsive. Considering the work this machine has done, I’m not terribly displeased.Monday, 9 February 2004
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.Thursday, 8 January 2004
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 Workshop) running on my TiBook happily for several months, thanks to Sam’s efforts.Saturday, 3 January 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?Monday, 15 December 2003
Cool OS X Software roundup
Small apps that make my life much, much easier:Wednesday, 10 December 2003
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 ~/Sites/test.txt mnot-laptop:~> curl -is http://localhost/~mnot/test.txt | grep Content-Type Content-Type: text/plain mnot-laptop:~> open http://localhost/~mnot/test.txtMonday, 25 August 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 commute. Along with an iTrip, it seemed just the ticket.Tuesday, 15 July 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 back to the Mac (which I happily used for about six years before that).Sunday, 4 May 2003
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.Saturday, 3 May 2003
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.Thursday, 1 May 2003
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?Wednesday, 11 December 2002