Often tied in with other tech or code posts; Apple/Mac/iOS speculations, hacks, and other errata.
Via DF: Garrett Murray on the new Apple keyboard: The wired keyboard now has up to F19, and no dedicated volume controls. Instead, it moves the volume controls to special functions on F10, F11 and F12. You might remember those as two Expose keys and the Dashboard key. Well, not anymore. In fact, F9, the […]
Held off all week on commenting about Leopard at all because… Haven’t been “Mac-bloggin’” much these days anyway and there didn’t seem much to comment on… …but that said, I felt compelled anyway. Not much to add that hasn’t been thoroughly reviewed and/or lambasted just about everywhere. The short version: changes to the menu bar […]
My most favoritest of browsers on the Mac has been updated! Camino arrives at version 1.5 today. Download it here. An upgraded rendering engine, integration with the Mac’s spellchecking services, better/tighter integration with Keychain, and (one of my favorites) RSS detection and badging in the address bar a la Firefox. As if you didn’t already […]
If you didn’t already hear: version 3 of Smultron (Peter Borg’s fabulous open source text editor) has been released. With each release it becomes a stronger and stronger competitor to paid-for apps like TextMate. I use this thing every day and I seldom want for any features 1. If you’re on a Mac and you […]
Revisiting last year’s list to make this the 2007 edition… It’s the Top 10 “it should have been in the box” applications for OS X. And in some cases, they are in the box; but in most cases they are not. That said, the top 10 “can’t live without ’em” applications for the OS X […]
A little update on my adventures with MacFUSE and sshfs… With the 0.1.9 release, they seem to have gotten things working quite a bit better. You can get “bundled” sshfs and SpotlightFS apps that serve as a GUI on top of these respective protocols (and just when I got the command line elements figured out, […]
Following up on a couple of references yesterday, I decided to try out sshfs and MacFUSE. To (er…) mixed results. They both seem like tremendously cool ideas and I like the direction this is headed in (from a usability through not necessarily security-related stance); I wanted to try these out. Alas, neither seems to have […]
Via TUAW: It appears that screenshots of Microsoft’s Office for Mac 2008 edition are starting to surface; they’ve got a gallery up following some Macworld demos. Say what you will about Microsoft and/or the Office suite in particular but for a lot of us… Well, my Pages demo didn’t really win me away from years […]
ash: AppleScript Shell (tags: applescript Mac OSX Terminal ash)
Ouch. I was way off: The Leopard: OS X 10.5. Nope. Narry a big cat in sight. Oh sure, we’ve got CoreAnimation on an iPhone but what about my existing hardware? Burn. No points. iSoftware. Nope again. No Keynote, no Pages. No iLife ’07. See above re: Leopard? No points. Refreshed Mac minis. Again: nope. […]