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March 14, 2005
I’m sure that I’m not the only person who has noticed the wonderfully random (if not playful) way in which applications are sorted in the Open With… contextual menu found in Apple Mail. The image below only hints at the mad scramble of menu items that appear when I control click on an image file … More
March 8, 2005
For future reference, here’s an impressive (but not necessarily complete) list of OS X menubar items with the requisite descriptions and links. I’m rather sobered by how many of these handy little doodads I actually use right now. Three third-party extras that I could not possibly live without are Synergy for iTunes control, ASM for … More
October 20, 2004
Taking a few random kicks at uniplatform, hegemonic muck is a worthwhile cause anytime of the year, but helping promote the launch of an browsing alternative designed to knock Internet Explorer’s teeth out to the curb… well, that’s even better. If you’d like to add a bit of your own grease to the wheel, head … More
November 14, 2003
There’s plenty to be said for being succinct when it comes to providing technical information for a software product. Some people get overwhelmed when confronted with too much detail and jargon. Personally, I prefer the verbose release notes from folks like Bare Bones to the ultraminimalist documentation of other (nameless) software companies. For example, examine … More
June 5, 2003
Just like me, you were right ripped that Apple’s ‘improvements’ to iTunes disabled internet music sharing. Part of the wonderfulness of music sharing was being able to listen to your home-based library at work, and now that flexibility was gone. Well, it really didn’t take very long for James Speth (of iCommune fame) to slap … More
January 31, 2003
Steve Comrie, of pseudodictionary fame, kindly emailed me a hint regarding yesterday’s CPAN installation issue. Based on the error message I posted, he suggested that I install the File::Spec module, seeing that it’s a prerequisite module to have in place prior to CPAN attempting to update itself. It was apparent, at least to Steve, that … More
January 16, 2003
The indubitable Eckhart Koppen, developer of impossible software wonders, has started a new weblog dedicated to hacking the Newton. Mottek means “hammer” in a certain German dialect and loosely refers to the Hammer debugger used in developing for the ARM processor found in Newton devices. So what’s Eckhart got up his sleeve? I don’t know, … More
December 16, 2002
When your company name is straddling the chasm between typographic awkwardness and nerdy self-awareness, your product better be damn good and useful. From what I’ve seen so far, IOXperts seems to have avoided most of the issues surrounding its corporate moniker by developing some dearly needed device drivers. USB and FireWire-based cameras, webcams and other … More
November 19, 2002
Before I commit to making the jump over to OS X, I’ve been on this sporadic quest to locate those little software nuggets that will afford me the same level of utility and convenience as I’m used to under OS 9. One of those nuggets is FinderPop. As contextual menu enhancements go, it’s usefulness teeters … More
October 15, 2002
Ah, what wondrously cryptic dispatches lie just beneath the surface of modern software. Not only is the phrase “Portable Document Format File Format” a fine example of descriptive over-exuberance (not unlike the Beach Boys tune which waxes lyrical on the populous fashion of wearing huarache sandals), but I find the whole idea of having an … More