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I’m still not 100% sure that {OS X} Widgets are a great idea (I tried Konfabulator over a year ago, and it was trashed before the end of…
For those of you who have iLife ’05 and OS X 10.4 and haven’t yet tried it, iPhoto will now process RAW files from the Canon PowerShot G3…
S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ Apologies to the original site which pointed me at this stuff: it’s so long ago I’ve forgotten where I read…
BBC NEWS | Technology | Software patent bill thrown out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4655955.stm Finally dead – it was crazy that the bill should have been so mangled and still managed…
Carrel.ORG – GPGMail and Mac OS X 10.4.1: http://www.carrel.org/2005/05/16/gpgmail-and-mac-os-x-1041/ Excellent: works a charm ! UPDATE: Well, maybe not. Just had Mail die during a composition when trying to…
PodSmith: http://www.makienterprise.com/podsmith/index.html Yesterday’s price reduction on the 1GB iPod Shuffle pays for the licen[c|s]e for this program, and means I finally have an excuse to get one. Other…
Apple Matters: http://applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/apple_computer_is_piracy_the_pathway_to_profits/ Interesting: not an approach I’d even contemplated as an option, but one which is quite possible. To get an idea of {Apple}’s opinion on this…
I’ve had quite a problem getting {Darwin} 8.0.1 to boot on my B&W – holding down the C key doesn’t work, and so that is pretty much it…
I’ve had a little issue trying to get more than 4GB of data onto this unit, and the usual {Google} wasn’t helping much. Checking all of the jumpers…
BBC – Radio 4 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Play the adventure online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_new.shtml Oh dear – this could be the biggest waste of my…
This is a bug in {Apple}’s Disk Utility – it will totally choke on my G3 B&W when presented with a drive that has had a {NetBSD/macppc} disc…
Macworld: Editors’ Notes: Au revoir, Rendezvous: http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/04/bonjour/index.php?lsrc=mwrss-0405 That’s just fine by me: when typing in IM I could never spell rendezvous correctly: I stand a much better chance…
Armagetron: A Tron clone in 3d: http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/ Wow. I don’t play games on my computer(s) much (I still miss my old phone as it had a really good…
Macworld: News: Hasselblad, Leica to support Adobe DNG spec: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/08/dng/index.php?lsrc=mcrss-0305 Hooray ! Boo ! Great to see it’s being supported, but in a product that I can’t ever…
Update: This is now no longer required when using OS X 10.4: noted here Well, I’ve given up sulking about {iPhoto} 5 not supporting my G3 RAW files,…