Drawing Breath

Will biting the bullet and upgrading from Adobe Illustrator 10 to Illustrator CS give me any improvements in speed and stability on Mac OS X?

Bare Bones Software have announced the release of BBEdit 8.1. BBEdit is the premier text editor for Mac OS, and one of my favourite applications; I use it for all the HTML, CSS, Perl, PHP, Javascript and Apache Configuration File editing on my sites, as well as for rescuing plain text files that have been [...]

These days, there seem to be a lot television ads around for products like disinfectants, which highlight the number of germs that are going to eat babies and children alive if irresponsible parents don’t invest in the product immediately. This is despite studies which suggest that our increasing obsession with cleanliness and hygiene is a [...]

Apple have released updates to their iWork applications (available in Software Update). I don’t really have much use for Keynote, but I love Pages, and use it for all my business letters and invoices. Pages 1.0.1 adds the much needed ability to easily delete whole pages from a document, which was a bit of an [...]

I recently attended a meeting of my local Mac User Group (MUG), where I introduced a few people to one of my favourite OS X applications, Quicksilver. This has led, somehow, to me agreeing to give a demo of the application at the 26th April meeting.

If you use Quicksilver, you know how hard it is [...]

The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a screenshot of the new OS X inspired Google X which has recently appeared on Google labs. The Google X page has the following tag line:

Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you.

Feel the love, people. Nice to see OS X getting explicit [...]

Filed under “I’ll believe it when I see it”:

AppleInsider | Sources: Apple developing two-button mouse

If it turns out to be true, it could be further evidence of a worrying if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em trend taking root at Apple Headquarters.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog posted the following article about the demise of the Mozilla Suite today:

No more Mozilla 1.8; in fact, no more Mozilla. Just Firefox.: “In case you haven’t already heard, it’s over for Mozilla as far as future development is concerned. Oh sure, the Mozilla Foundation is going to keep maintaining the 1.7 [...]

MacMerc.com has a useful article on how to eject a CD that refuses to show up on the desktop. I didn’t know about the drutil command line utility. Could come in handy next time one of my Retrospect DVDs refuses to show it’s face.

Thanks to The Unofficial Apple Weblog for the link.

I recently started using the excellent MarsEdit from Ranchero Software to edit this blog. It is a very nice application, and makes writing entries much easier than using the (admittedly very good) browser interface provided by the WordPress installation. The only complaints I had were that the initial connection to my blog installation needed manual [...]