UI Browser
PreFab Software, makers of the excellent Player, has released UI Browser, an application that provides a graphical browser for Mac OS X’s GUI Scripting. Think Script Debugger’s dictionary explorer for...
View ArticleColumbia
Eric Albert has written a moving piece about the Columbia STS-107 tragedy. I, too, remember the Challenger explosion, which we watched in a school-wide assembly because a New Hampshire school teacher...
View ArticleIntroduction to PyObjC
Bill Bumgarner has written an article about the PyObjC bridge. It looks really neat, and I’ll probably start using it in place of FScript. For the Objective-C developer, access to Python provides a...
View ArticleWorse Is Not That Much Better
Classy: I think it is safe to say that Perl is experiencing a disruption. And even worse, the Perl community is reacting exactly like an incumbent champion of industry would, adding features—and...
View ArticleEmila
Steven Frank has released the source code to Emila, his pre-release e-mail searching application. I don’t know how Emila will evolve, but there is a definite need for better tools for indexing and...
View ArticleDave Thomas
Dave Thomas is co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Programming Ruby. Both books are good. The Pragmatic Programmer is older and very highly regarded. It doesn’t contain any particularly amazing...
View ArticleSalon’s New Deal
Salon: OK, here’s the deal: Starting today, you can gain access to Salon in either of two ways: You can pay our low subscription price (as little as 5 cents a day) or you can click through a...
View ArticleMac OS X and Unix
Paul Fatula pointed me to a series of great posts in the MacFixIt forums by “thalo.” I don’t agree with everything this guy (or gal) says, but there is a lot of sense there. That’s the problem with...
View ArticleHierarchy
Morbus Iff: But I do want my hierarchy. I love my hierarchy. I like the way my brain thinks, and I like mapping it onto my filesystem. I think I’ve used Sherlock/built-in Find once or twice the whole...
View ArticleBeing Better
John Gruber: The only way to see the Mac as unsuccessful is to compare it to Windows on Microsoft’s terms—market share and raw profit. And that’s exactly how analysts and the PC press cover the Mac....
View ArticleOptimizing PNG Files
Mark Pilgrim posted a LazyWeb request and got back some good responses.
View ArticleTypes
Artima has posted an interview with Guido van Rossum who, not surprisingly, likes Python’s type system. Unfortunately, from what I’ve seen there’s little agreement about what “strong” and “weak”...
View ArticleAmazon Recommendations
IEEE has posted an article about recommendation systems such as Amazon’s.
View ArticleThe Future of Animation
Jeff Carlson: The New York Times has an interesting story about the state of feature animation, notably the “old style” Disney version (hand-drawn) versus the “new style” Pixar version...
View ArticleSuperDriveiMaciLifeQuickTimeiCaliPhoto
David Pogue has some competition from Alexei Kosut.
View ArticleSpamSieve 1.3
SpamSieve 1.3 is out. The new version is better at identifying spam messages, and it integrates with the system Address Book to help prevent false positives. The statistics code is completely...
View ArticleNetNewsWire 1.0
The “pro” version of NetNewsWire is out. Although I was initially skeptical, NetNewsWire Lite really grew on me. Now it’s probably my favorite new program since Watson.
View ArticleNSSchizophrenicControls
Matt Gemmell: I went into frenzied command-shift-4 mode (that’s screenshot-taking mode, by the way), and recorded for posterity some examples of Apple’s utterly schizophrenic UI design.
View ArticleGoogle’s Privacy Problems
Aaron Swartz: Google needs to stop sending the cookie and promise to only store aggregate data, with no connection between users and search terms. This issue was publically raised almost a year ago;...
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