Tha’ts right, folks. I’m not talking about Civ 4, the most anticipated version of the Sid Myer’s command and control civilization simulator. This is all about it’s older brother, bundled with both expansion packs and a few other niceties.
I’m just going to get the the point on this game, and save everyone a heck of [...]
After reading part 1 of this little series called My First AppleScript, you probably felt fairly comfortable fiddling around with it yourself and have probably tried to write your own AppleScripts. Hopefully your own AppleScripts turned out great and worked like a charm. In my case, however, my AppleScripts crashed and burned. [...]
Apple will be including Ruby on Rails in the next version of OS X (Leopard), both server and client.
I’m a big fan of RoR and since the version of Ruby that shipped with my Mac was a little botched, I’m excited to hear that they’re including a tested version of both Ruby and Rails in [...]
I don’t watch a lot of television, so for me, the iTunes music store’s growing list of shows available for commercial-free download is great. If this keeps up, I might be able to do away with the cable company all together. Oh, what a wonderful day that would be.
There is just one problem – the [...]
While I am not sure how many there are, one thing is for certain – there are far more FTP clients than one person needs. This is a classic problem when looking for a piece of software. There are dozens of offerings, but which one is the best for what I need. Hopefully [...]
skEdit is the web developers text editor. While not nearly as feature packed as some other text editors in the Mac software market, I’ve been using it for two weeks and in that time it has easily saved me three months worth of work.
There has been a lot of complaining about the lack of new features in The WWDC keynote yesterday. I guess Apple geeks get very excited at the prospect of a new OS. I know I was queueing with everybody else for the Tiger launch.
But there are a few things which went unmentioned yesterday, a few [...]
Boot Camp is one of the main elements that is expected to be released properly at WWDC later today and even though I’ve currently given up on Boot Camp in preference for Parallels, there are those who will prefer the Boot Camp approach for the performance improvements it provides – particularly if you want to play any games on your Intel Mac under Windows.
I don’t consider myself a design guru, but I do like to dabble in CSS, PHP, and Javascript — at least enough to make my blog look nice. I’m a relative purist when it comes to web design, so I rarely step outside of the text editor/web browser development duo. Occasionally, however, I need some [...]
At last I can engage in my favorite flavor of distraction on my new iMac: endlessly flirting with gui and icon themes until it is, in my mind’s eye, the perfect kind of pretty. Unsanity software has finally released a public-beta version of ShapeShifter compatible with Intel Macs. ShapeShifter, for those of you [...]
This Lifehacker post about encrypting text on your website using Javascript reminded me of some little known OS X-only software that I use on my websites.
Email Encoder from Closenit Sofware is a free and brilliant little app that weighs in at all of 68k. The basic idea is that you input your email [...]
This guy noticed something I picked up on when 10.4 server came out. If you go into Server Admin and disable port 626, OS X Server automatically re-enables it. This port is used by serialnumberd, which relies on Bonjour to look for duplicate serial numbers of OS X Server on the local network.
The bug is [...]
If you grew up working on a Unix machine like I did, working in Terminal.app isn’t just a walk down memory lane, it’s more productive. While of my everyday computing happens within Terminal, be it server maintenance, MySQL, or file manipulation, using Alt-Tab or Expose to constantly switch back to the Terminal becomes cumbersome when [...]
Telestream announced today that their Flip4Mac product, which enables Windows Media files to be played through Quicktime, is now available as a Universal program. Microsoft has posted a Universal Flip4Mac installer up on their download center website, so for those of you with Intel Macs who were waiting for this extremely nice application to work [...]
Months ago, I saw the “Evening at Adler” video that DrunkenBatman released, which consisted of Mac indie developers discussing important topics about our platform. Something that they discussed which rang strong with me was a topic known as “versioning”. Basically, when a developer works on a major project, no matter what environment or platform, it’s [...]
Give me a community that agrees on everything and you might as well give me a fluffy pillow too cause it won’t be very long before boredom creeps in and I’m sawing a log. Disagreement, debate and non-violent conflict are healthy, entertaining and growth fostering. Without them communities often become stale and flat. [...]
Granted this isn’t fresh out of the oven. It’s already been heavily Dugg eons ago, in web years, so I suppose this makes me terribly lame. No one’s ever mistaken me for a timely hipster but if Quicksilver is your North Star then changing its UI into a Cube might be worth ten [...]
Ever since I caught whiff of Songbird — a sexy (and shiny!) black, cross-platform, Firefox-based, open-source music player — I have waited with bated breath for the OS X download. When I discovered that they have finally released a (very) beta version, I eagerly downloaded it, bugs and all.
While fun to fiddle with, it [...]
iTunes and its siblings make our digital possessions easy to organise, categorise and search. For years my paper life has lagged significantly behind the organisation that I imposed on my media, with important documents languishing in a drawer just waiting for some impending disaster to wipe them out or even get stolen. This was completely [...]
Routebuddy has just been released, and in an effort to get in there before everyone else I just downloaded and gave the app a quick spin.
Firstly… why do I personally want a GPS / mapping app? A fairly newfound hobby of mine has been to start tracking walks and mountain bike trails using my Garmin [...]
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