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I’ve been a Windows User for two weeks. What’s it like from the other side?
I’ve been thinking of how I’d work if I didn’t have a laptop. One thing’s for sure: I wouldn’t spend as much time rubbing my neck while waiting for builds, for a couple of reasons. I’m beginning to wonder if a laptop is really any good at all, let alone necessary. Wouldn’t I rather not [...]
My Powerbook’s disk died yesterday around 1pm. Since then I’ve been thinking about how to get by without it. After taking far too long to realize it was beyond my troubleshooting ability, I took it to the UTC Apple store at 5 or so, and got an appointment for 7:45, then went for a drink. [...]
In case you had no idea what I was talking about in the last post, I’ve put together a hasty screencast with no script, no soundtrack, and no editing. In the video you can see a few things: 0:00: I have found a way to show you the palm trees on my street without showing [...]
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I’ve been using Red Sweater software’s FlexTime for a while now, and Daniel just announced version 1.0. FlexTime is a repeating-timer program that is great for either set routines or one-off reminders. (It also has a pretty great name, don’t you think?) It’s a solid program that you can use for a number of things. [...]
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Apple’s XCode 3.0 preview page is a cornucopia of new stuff that I somehow missed all day – until now. No doubt this is the stuff that everyone at WWDC is talking about. This page represents no less than 3 or 4 really significant changes and some really nice details. Here’s a hit list that [...]
Lazyweb: where can I find / how can I get a universal libpcre?
From BLDGBLOG, some pictures and romantic musings about everyone’s favorite kind of computer – big, expensive, finicky and shared: the Supercomputer. Be sure to click through to see the picture of the MareNostrum system filling a glass box in a chapel in Barcelona. There are more great photos on photographer Simon Norfolk’s site. I wish [...]
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I came back from a weekend camping trip to find that my post about WebMail.app got a lot of attention: TUAW, Hawk Wings, and MacUser, for starters. Some people got what I was trying to do with it, and some didn’t. The idea got passed around a bit, so a few commenters probably didn’t read [...]