Anyone who reads my blog for content knows that one of the few things I get fired up about is DRM. Since music is so important to me it makes sense that I would feel strongly about my rights in that arena. Today Steve Jobs, the guy in the driver’s seat of the [...]
Apple’s displays are some of the most lusted after items in all of geekdom. Very few people are probably willing to pay the premium to have them but no one denies their beauty.
Today Mike commented how he loved his busted third LCD (with water damage) that he dedicates to viewing his Apache logs [...]
BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com is a push by MacZot to give away 3,000 copies of SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys. If this works out (like the one for AppZapper did) MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software.
MacZot occasionally pops up in my aggregator with some good deals. I think it’s a great way [...]
Trying to compile Cairo on Mac OS X and having trouble? The problem seems to be finding fontconfig. The solution is to create a .pc file for pkg-config (which you should have installed it you are compiling and installing most open source packages). Create cairo.pc in the directory where pkg-config stores it’s [...]
I’m trying to not buy a mini. Just in case I do, I’ll want to read this again.
I’ve half-written quite a few blog entries in the last week. I must push this logjam through to be able to write new things. Prepare for the onslaught.
KinoSearch - A Search Library for Perl I discovered KinoSearch via a post to the Plucene mailing list last week. After a few false starts it [...]
Despite Brent’s attempt to lull us into believing that NetNewsWire will erupt from the doldrums and rescue us RSS-loving-Core-Duo-wielding users I’ve been itching to play with a new aggregator. Enter endo. It’s a bit different but it allowed me to import all my feeds (something NewsFire can’t seem to grasp) so I’ll play [...]
NetNewsWire used to be one of my favorite reasons to own a mac. Now it’s one of the few apps I run that isn’t Universal and it hasn’t had any promised features released. It’s been well over 6 months with not a peep out of Ranchero. What happened to the syncing with NewsGator? [...]
This thing gives me the beach-ball of death all the damned time. I’ve got day-to-day first-hand experience with both a dual-core Powermac G5 and a 1.5Ghz G4 AlBook. Neither of those systems give me this much trouble. Updating my iPod (4,996 songs) apparently does the computing equivalent of kicking the iMac in [...]
I made some noise a few weeks back about switching to my AlBook full time. This did not come to pass. The nifty examples of a Powerbook mounted on a stand beside a big monitor are not reasonable. The connectors being on the side of the computer prevent any attempts to get [...]
I ended hanging out at work late enough that it was better to wait for traffic than to try and fight my way home. I’ve not got any one thing to talk about so I’ll just brain dump all the little mind-boogers that I can’t get to congeal into a single post.
I mentioned in [...]
On the eve of The Steve’s keynote at MacWorld, Apple is getting a lot of buzz around the Intertron. Today at the office I was discussing an application with Nathan and I advised him to simply copy Foo.app to his other machine. I commented that such action should work flawlessly, as that is [...]
Slashdot had an interesting story few days ago about Apple still clinging to Objective-C. After a bit of thinking I decided it was good that Apple were sticking to their guns concerning languages. The third-party apps are rich and vibrant. Why should they pull a Microsoft and start pushing their developers into [...]
I’ve read plenty of gripes about OS X. Some of them are true and some of them are just opinion. I’ll contribute to the intertron’s cacophony on the subject.
OS X’s window placement annoys me. I’m willing to overlook the lack of virtual desktops because Expose handles that for me. But when [...]
Here’s a great infographic showing Apple’s strategy for bring it’s hardware to the masses.
Every few weeks I see an article where someone decides they can be the one to succeed where others have failed and show us all why Linux has yet to ‘conquer’ the desktop. I’ve got three words for you: No One Cares.
If you search the internet for my nick (gphat), you’ll likely find me [...]
If you’ve ready any of my opinions on the Apple Intel Switch, you’ve probably learned that I think it’s good. This morning, I read an article from Ars Technica that pulls the shimmery cover off the fiasco and lets us know why IBM recently announced new PowerPC chips that fill many of the holes [...]
In honor of Kevin’s new Mac mini, I’ve compiled a list of apps that I use on my Powerbook.
BluePhone Elite - Uses Bluetooth to talk to your phone. You can see who’s calling, browse call history, and send/recieve SMS messages. It can also do neat things when you walk away or come [...]
I’ve been toying with the idea of switching completely to Apple for years. I was hesitant to buy another Powerbook based on how little I used my first one. I eventually succumbed to the beauty that is Apple got one.
Last night, stuck in one of those can’t sleep moments, I decided that purchasing [...]
Robert X. Cringeley is speculating that Apple and Intel are merging. That’s not a rumor that I really have any clue about, but I did want to throw my opinion into the ring concerning why Apple might not have chosen AMD: chipsets.
Any of you know that Intel makes mobile chipsets? Centrino ring a [...]