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Digging for news

Maybe you’ve already wondered why there are short posts without the usual image, those posts are news diggs. News diggs are short news posts that link to an external article. The news are hand selected by me and are coming from the social news digging site digg.com. Some of them will be written or edited […]

OS X 86 available for retail… in Bangkok

They’ve beat Apple to the punch, OS X for x86 is available for retail in Bangkok already! Defenitly not legal as you could guess.
read more | digg story

What Is Darwin (and How It Powers Mac OS X)

Great in depth article that looks at how Darwin powers OS X. Article discusses what the upcomming intel switch means for Darwin as well.
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Dashboard Widget Detection Coming to Safari.

A forthcoming version of Apple Computer’s Safari Web browser may automatically detect the presence of Dashboard widgets on a website, according to developers who’ve located evidence of such a feature in an unreleased version of Mac OS X “Tiger.” (there are pics of widget buttons in safari).
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Style sheet editing with style

Everyone that designs websites should know them by now, cascading style sheets (CSS). Even I switched to them after nearly eight years of table based layouts and I’m sure a lot of the younger devs never knew anything else. If you’re still using tables, it’s really about time to make the switch. A good start […]

The pixel art application

Pixel Art is an art form mostly used in classic 2D video games, cell phone games and many web projects. Here are some examples: MrWong’s Soup’Partments, eboy, pixelfreak.com, pixeltees. If you want to learn the basics of pixel art creation, have a look at this great guide to pixel art, it isn’t that hard, just […]

500 battery loadcycles later …

My PowerBook G4 is now 16 months old and the battery in it had to go through exactly 500 load cycles. Now I’m not guessing, that’s the exact number and no, I didn’t count them manually, of course OS X did that for me. There’s an application called coconutBattery that uses Apple’s CoreData technology to […]

Top 10 Web Services Meme

The last blogging meme by Om Malik about the top 10 OS X apps was really useful, but these days web services have become very important as well, so there should definitely be a meme about those browser based applications as well. Here are the rules: Post your favorite web services on your own blog […]

A true “democracy of the web”

StumbleUpon is a Firefox Extension and web service that helps you find interesting web pages, tons of them. The Extension adds a few additional buttons to Firefox, for example in the status bar or wherever else you like them. Those additional buttons make it possible for you to discover new pages and to rate pages […]

Real font morphing?

Did you ever search the perfect font for a logo or design and just couldn’t decide between two similar fonts because the perfect font would have been something somewhere between the two? Font morphing allows TrueType fonts to be smoothly adjusted from light to bold, but why not take the next logical step and allow […]

Ruby on OS X rails

The scripting language Ruby and the framework Ruby on Rails is getting really popular lately, even outside Japan where the hype started. Ruby is an object oriented scripting language with a very intuitive and logical syntax that is relatively easy to learn and powerful. Especially the Ruby on Rails framework makes programming in Ruby a […]

Menubar items, tons of them!

Britta Gustafson loves menubar items, she loves them so much, that she made a list that contains most of them, she even made a menubar tutorial. Nice. Here are some of them that caught my eyes:

HimmelBar: Launch applications, organized by folder.
iSnip: Organize and access commonly-used text snippets.
Jumpcut: Save and access your clipboard history.
DeskShade: Manage your […]




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