Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
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 […]
As you may recall, I started this article thread back in September, asking the question: “How do I teach web publication to a scientist and/or university professor? Someone who is obviously smart but also technologically UN-savvy?” After setting some ground rules, we quickly eliminated Microsoft Word and all-but-eliminated iWeb. Then I went on a roughly […]
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 […]
Google launched “My Maps” this week and it seems to be all over the place. It’s a fun, addictive little toy; a nice addition to their already pretty awesome map system. Brady Forrest called it “a direct shot across the bow of sites like Platial and Frappr” — and while I don’t necessarily agree with […]
While A. committed herself to more work this evening, so did I… I decided to follow up on this morning’s post and put forth a good faith effort at solving as many of the IE-specific issues in my CSS as I could re: Ortho… The good news? It’s legible and more/less looking good (at least […]
After last weekend’s (perceived?) success getting Ortho up and running here, I was feeling pretty good. Got it loaded into Subversion and was off and running. Until I got my first look at it in IE6 today. Yuck. Even after switching to a strict doctype it is almost totally and completely illegible. Working on that. […]
Yes, this appeared in my Flickr stream a few days ago and I’m just now getting around to cross-posting it here. Short version: Clearly the green of this fake license plate is supposed to be reminiscent of Vermont. But the "COMPUTE FREE OR DIE" is clearly a bastardization of New Hampshire’s motto. So… Yeah. You […]