Virtue, a Desktop Manager fork, was a very popular virtual desktop manager for Panther (OS X 10.3), but sadly the app has never seen a version able to run on Tiger (OS X 10.4) … till now. Thanks to Tony Arnold, Virtue can now ride the Tiger. The port isn’t complete, but at least usable […]
Font and typography guru Erik Spiekermann, not only known for the Nokia screen font, talks about font design and how things have changed since the birth of digital typesetting. Cool pics of some of his early hand-drawn sketches of font designs and a lot of insider information. Especially interesting for web- and software-developers:
So what […]
The “Macintel” Q & A, from EveryMac.com, makes an effort to cut through the hype and resolve the uncertainty surrounding Apple’s decision to switch to Intel-based processors. There are some good facts and tid-bits to dig through so have a look if you’re still not sure what this means to the Mac platform.
Right now […]
A good read on how to interview a programmer that applies for a job. Tips from various points of view that get beyond the “standard” interview, and will help you find the right person for a job.
Finding good programmers is hard because good programming is dependent on much more than just knowledge of programming […]
Many professional designers will already know what Lorem Ipsum is, for the whole rest the following text will maybe look a bit like Latin with a few typos, but it will definitely not make much sense:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut […]
Analysts from Gartner and Forrester Research came up with some very interesting speculations of what that newly discovered Google project everyone seams to be speculating about could be. For those of you that didn’t follow this story on the net, there was a screenshot of a new Google service making the rounds and later Google […]
Most text editors out there are made for programmers, for business texts or for personal letters. If you’re a creative writer, the words and the order of those words is much more important than the style of them or on which line they are. While it’s possible to use any text editor out there to […]
Today seams to be the big day of interviews at OS X Code (r,s). Here’s another one with Joshua Schachter, the founder of the social bookmarking web service del.ici.us. As a developer myself, I found the answer to this question most interesting:
Q: Which are you going to push, the individual or social uses?
A: You won’t […]
This is definitely one of the best interviews with Steve Jobs this year. Some very interesting questions and answers, for example this one about Apple’s market share:
Still, Apple’s market share seems stuck at about 5% in the U.Ss and 3% worldwide.
So our market share is actually greater than BMW’s — greater than Mercedes — in […]
I show you a lot of different apps over here, some of them are not even final products and bugs I didn’t experience can easily make trouble on your differently configured system, especially if the app installs background processes you don’t see with “alt apple esc”. Here’s a small tip that I hope will be […]
PC Magazine has taken their time to review five social bookmarking sites. Here are the results:
clipmarks: 4/5 –> Clipmarks is an easy and effective way to store pieces of Web pages for sharing, reference, and review.
del.icio.us: 1.5/5 –> del.icio.us competently tags and stores your bookmarks online, but it’s too limited and too hard to use.
jeteye: […]
IBM’s dual core 970MP used in the new PowerMacs have several new power saving features. While Intel still needs to prove the efficiency of their power saving technology for next years “performance per watt” chips, the new IBM chips used in the new G5’s already go along a similar route. The chip cannot only completely […]
To gain maximum knowledge of the network world, go for some online courses like N10-003 and SY0-101. You will easily be able to play with the wireless cable concept. It will not be hard to install a computer software without any instructions. Not only this, you will also be able to work on a remote pc software. Sounds too good? Bet it is!
