Implicit Evaluation with PHP Archives: Mac
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24 September 2007
Tabs
You application probably does not need tabs. It may be treasonous to claim that, but tabs have become an epidemic. They’re a poor metaphor in computing. They’re a stopgap for other problems.
Preference windows were the first big consumer of tabs. And they were largely appropriate. Tabs should group together related functions. Options are typically related. […]
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21 January 2007
iPod Alarm Clock with Red Numbers
There are a number of alarm clocks with iPod integration on the market today, however none have the conventional red numbering of other alarm clocks. I much prefer red to the blue these seem to favor as blue is very distracting in an otherwise dark room. Does a red-numbered iPod alarm clock exist?
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18 January 2007
Use your mouse in a terminal application in OSX
In OSX’s Terminal, you can position the text caret using your mouse. Open Terminal: Window Settings, click on Emulation in the drop-down list and check “Option Click to position cursor”. Now, when using terminal, you can hold alt/option and click with your mouse, and the cursor will relocate there. I believe Terminal determines the appropriate […]
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2 January 2007
Is Apple a Monopoly?
Apple Faces Federal Monopoly Suit
This kind of lawsuit drives me crazy. Is iPod the dominating force in portable music players? Yes. Is there anything wrong with that? No.. What has Apple not allowed? Opening the security that makes its service legal in the first place. The detractors will cry that since iPod is the dominant […]
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29 December 2006
Parallels: The Best Application, Ever?
I’ve been on the Mac bandwagon for nearly three years now. I’ve been on Intel Macs since they became commercially available in early 2006. I’m a software developer: not for Mac applications, but for general web applications. OSX doesn’t technically give me any advantages, but in real life, OSX just lets me work better than […]
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2 November 2006
Audio Passthru on PowerMac
For many months, I’ve had my iPod sitting on the desk in its dock, with the speakers plugged into it. The old PowerMac sits on the floor, outputting its alerts through the built in speaker. It’s not an ideal setup, but it works, especially considering the music is more important than dings.
There are enough […]
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17 March 2006
Initial Reactions to Installing XP on Intel Macs
I started playing. Making the Mac-enabled XP CD was very easy. Unfortuently, building a PC/Mac compatible disk was not.
Initially, I deviated from the very precise howto.txt Narf distributed. I did not wipe the drive. Instead, I plugged in a 250 GB ATA/133 drive on Firewire. I partioned that with a small Mac OS Extended (Journaled) […]
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16 March 2006
Georgia on my Mind
Like I posted earlir, the big news of the day is Windows XP on Mac.
The difficulty, however, is that I use my iMac. It has lots of data I’d prefer not to lose. It has lots of applications I’d prefer not to lose. As it happens, I have an external 250GB Firewire drive. My plan […]
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4 February 2006
X11 on OSX on Intel
Update: Or I’m just completely wrong. The same Optional Installs.pkg that the retail DVD has is also on the Intel DVD, you just have to scroll down.
I’ve finally got X11 running on my new iMac. Sort of.
The download from apple.com is for Panther. Though it complains about an incompatibility while installing, it turns out the […]
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9 January 2006
Optimized Firefox 1.5 with Mac OS X form widgets: BeatnikPad Journal
Seems there’s finally an OSX build of Firefox with native Aqua widgets. Rest assured I’ll be trying it tonight.
Read more at www.beatnikpad.com/arch…