ISSN 1496-3221
September 28, 2002
Cutting it as close to their pre-announced deadline as per usual, Apple has finally made iSync available in public beta form. There’s nothing specifically technical regarding the way iSync operates amidst the current batch of support documents, but I’m hoping that it will be open enough to support third-party plug-ins like iTunes does. The fact … More
June 18, 2002
What am I getting myself into? I wasn’t looking to change over to a new email client. Really, I wasn’t. But the consumer in me was enticed enough by the offer of the O’Reilly AppleScript in a Nutshell book being bundled with the current version of Mailsmith to actually crack open the wallet and place … More
February 14, 2002
Don’t you just love it when someone proves a point through sheer pluck and attitude? More specifically, someone demonstrates that a seemingly dead and abandoned technology can be dragged kicking and screaming into the present. What the heck am I yammering on about? Please direct your attention to the inaugural release of Eric Schneck’s iTunes … More
April 1, 2001
Creating Docklings in Mac OS X “A dockling is a lightweight component, packaged in a MacOS X bundle, which can provide constant visual feedback through its icon as well as a pop-up menu which can execute commands.” Cool.
January 31, 2001
Somewhere around four years ago, before I moved this site onto the Quadra 950 that’s running the show right now, I used MacHTTP on a cute little IIcx with an infinitesimal 8MB of memory. MacHTTP was the original web server software for the Mac and after a six year hiatus, it seems to have resurfaced … More
August 31, 2000
Another hopeful new media project bites the dust. Over a year ago, I purchased a charter subscription to the SprocketWorks product because it looked like an innovatively designed and highly visual, interactive tool that my kids could get into. These guys used Shockwave in very clean, efficient, and effective way that grabbed my attention. Today, … More
June 14, 2000
Why take life so seriously that it makes your brain hurt, when you can simply crank out genuinely useful software? Turly O’Connor has just taken the wraps off a new version of FinderPop, the indispensible utility that puts your contextual menu on a high-fibre diet washed down with a pint of Beamish. This time out, … More
May 8, 2000
So, you think that your favourite computing platform is going to protect you like a Bondi blue condom from the amorous advances of some coworker? Here’s a little reminder that everybody can be infected by a digital STD.
April 24, 2000
One of my proudest achievements is not ever being sucked into the world of online chat. Well, that and not ever being pierced by anything except a renegade staple gun. Other than a brief stint with the snarky QuickConference back in the early nineties, I’ve pretty much ignored all of the IRC and instant messaging … More
April 6, 2000
The best and the worst thing about Netscape 6.0 or Mozilla M14 or whatever it happens to be called when you download it, is the skins. Because the skins (or chrome as it’s referred to by Netscape) are comprised of a billion tiny gif images, the entire package takes up way too much drive space … More