It’s time for Macworld and once again, we find ourselves compelled to give in to the net’s peer pressure and do a prediction round-up with a sprinkling of our own predictions. Best-of-the-web style: the honorable Chuck Toporek has some well thought-out predictions and a mini round-up of his own over on MacDevCenter. Highlight reel includes […]
Not mine. This one a “Vegas-style” top ten list re: MacWorld from over on the ZDNet blogs… My favorite: 8. iWork ’06. Apple’s productivity suite will get upgrades to Pages and Keynote with the possible addition of a modern Office-killing spreheet application (rumored to be called “Numbers” or “Sheets“). If it re and writes Excel […]
As the “Mozilla vs. Apple” debate continues here at F_D, Gruber and a few others in my RSS feeds point out: Camino goes to 1.0 beta 2. Great. A Cocoa-based browser with the Gecko engine underneath. Before I know it, I’ll have all 83 browsers loaded up…
Via TUAW: James DuBois gets into a quad-core G5 and shares the images with us all.
To pick up roughly where we left off, I’d like to touch a bit more deeply on the bookmark syncing aspect of the Firefox vs. Safari portion of this pro/con festival. A couple days ago I summed it up as: Firefox Safari Bookmark management Not a big fan of the bookmark management in Firefox. […]
A change may be due on the web and email apps front… I may be pushing some of the limits of what Apple’s Mail and Safari apps can really offer me but… But I cling to them pretty desperately for some reason. Nostalgia? Because they came as part of the package? Can’t pin it down – – there’s also the pain in the ass of switching applications like this. So after being more/less forced into using Firefox and Thunderbird “exclusively” recently, I thought to myself it might be worth it to give each a shot for a solid week and see how it panned out. After Day 1, I came up with a version of the following scorecard to try and weigh this out for the long term…:
Call it one of those “lazy web” requests: Can someone please build a Rendezvous/Bonjour/mDNS/ZeroConf extension for Firefox? Porchdog made Howl with a Bonjour-esque ZeroConf plug-in for Internet Explorer as an out-of-the-box demo of the API.
Greg Westin has a good redux on semi-securely enabling WebDAV on an OS X box. What’s good about the article is that it uses iCal‘s “private server” publishing scenario as a use case and goes from there. He does a pretty good job of describing how to set up WebDAV in Apache and then how […]
A handy little tip over at CreativeBits re: customizing the time/date stamp format in your OS X menu bar. It takes a little playing around to really make it work right. The “catch” (at least as I observed it) was that you need to: Copy what you want from Date Paste it into the “Medium” […]
Via TUAW: the Internet iTunes Registry – – upload the XML dump of your iTunes Library and join the info smorgasboard! On first glance, this seems an awful lot like a variation on what I was talking about recently in “programming serendipity” – – it’s a little too soon for it to be “the lazy […]