Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
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. […]
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)
Reducing the pain of adopting a JavaScript library via The Web Standards Project (tags: webdev javascript essay todo)
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 […]
Was I out to lunch on this aspect of the Flickr maps when it came out? Or did they just add this recently? Observe: See the little blue dot in the lower-left corner of the thumbnail? When I first loaded up the map this evening I saw that most of them had it. And the […]