The Archives
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04.21.06Desktop Manager - an OS X cool toolIf, like me, you are a PowerBook owner who has either: used a desktop with multiple monitors used a *nix distro you'll be familiar with the concept of using multiple desktops, either physical or virtual In order to improve your productivity. In Linux/Unix of pretty much every flavor, this has been standard fare for just about forever. it's also something I missed when I moved to OS X. If you'd like that ability to use multiple desktops back, let me introduce Desktop Manager for OS X. It's (oddly enough) a virtual desktop manager for OS X. It's pretty powerful, ...
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03.02.06The ACME Guide, 3rd Edition now available here!Issues fixed! .pdf available for your downloading pleasure! As promised, I have released the 3rd Edition of The ACME Guide to accompany my presentation on ACME development at webDU. The new version has a number of new features including: both Windows and OS X installation guides basic information on using source code management (SCM) tools with your ACME development information on using bug tracking software alongside ACME and your SCM a brand-new more book-like format I hope you enjoy it. If you get some use out of it, and you feel the many hours of work on my part which has gone into the Guide ...
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01.30.06The Lifehacker PackLast week, I blogged about the Google Pack. The folks at Lifehacker thought they could do better and came up with the Lifehacker Pack. I have to agree - more software (many the same), often better, more tasks and activities covered. Get it!
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01.20.06Shiira?I was looking at my site stats this morning and saw this. "WTF is Shiira?", I asked myself. Well, it turns out that Shiira is a Japanese project to write a "browser that is better and more useful than Safari" based around Apple's Web Kit. So far, it looks pretty sweet, and you've got to check out the page transition effect; not perfect yet, but sweet nonetheless. On top of all this, Shiira is Open Source and free, and there's even a web browser widget for Dashboard.
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01.17.06Biggest. Pinhead. Ever.Sean's unhappy about it. So am I. Badmouth the Open Source community from an uninformed standpoint. Badmouth an application framework you have little or no knowledge of. Rip off other's work. Rattle off a bunch of other misinformed or deliberately inflammatory rubbish. Then block comments. Bad form. You make yourself no friends.
