Often tied in with other tech or code posts; Apple/Mac/iOS speculations, hacks, and other errata.
Well, it’s that time again in San Francisco and in four more days, the Moscone Center is going to be the universal center of all things Apple as Macworld 2007 gets under way. Like last year, I’m tempted by the ruminations of others to jump in on this bandwagon of forecast and prognostication, looking for […]
One of the links in yesterday’s link dump was this article in ComputerWorld titled “15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X“. As I noted in my del.icio.us comments, it looks well thought-out on the surface but also seems to be more of the same (at least w/r/t/ this breed of article). I’ll now […]
Second Vermont Republic (tags: politics Vermont secession) Use iSight to log invalid login attempts via lifehack.org (tags: Mac security authsight)
How to Strip .docx’s XML via eightysevenfour (via TUAW): how to strip the XML from a .docx file (Office 2007) and make it “universally open-able” again (tags: howto Office OSX xml Mac docx Microsoft)
In an attempt to stay true to the household’s hostname naming convention, a recently acquired 4GB SanDisk Cruzer needed a name… While “double” may have been more appropriate for a 2GB, I’ve certainly never heard of anyone buckling down to the bar and ordering a quadruple. At any rate, no one “out there” on the […]
Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X (tags: dev framework Mac OSX Rails Ruby tutorial webdev todo) WinterTrails.org (tags: winter snowshoe exercise) sitemaps.org (tags: Google Yahoo search web xml)
img2icns via Shiny Frog (via Hawk Wings): an image-to-icon conversion utility (tags: icon Mac OSX graphics freeware) Launch time via Macworld Secrets: a good round-up of launchd’s settings… (tags: launchd Mac OSX) Yahoo! Autos Green Center Hybrids, bio-diesel, natural gas, E85… Info and shopping on “green(er)” automobiles. (tags: automotive energy environment) kuler via LifeHacker: Adobe […]
devnevyn: linkd — make cross-application links to VoodooPad What does “linkd” offer that the linkback framework does not? (tags: VoodooPad hack linkback linkd todo) microformats (tags: microformats dev framework language publishing tagging xml web) Apparently, less IS more via My Boring Ass Life (via Daring Fireball): Kevin Smith’s Celebrity playlist for iTunes (the one that […]
10 OS X Apps You Might Not Know About But Should via The Apple Blog (via 43f) (tags: Mac OSX software) Humpback whales have “human” brain cells via Reuters.com: “So long and thanks for all the fish.” (tags: science research) 100 Notable Books of the Year via NY Times Book Review (via aspiringlibrarian) (tags: literature […]
Human DNA is far more varied than thought via New Scientist (tags: science genetics research todo) Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about via OS X Daily (via TUAW) (tags: Mac OSX reference terminal)