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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Camino has been my default browser for a long time now, and it has been great seeing the feature set grow and mature. I defected briefly to Safari, but came back to Camino after the 0.8 release, lured by the speed and compatibility of the Mozilla rendering engine. The most interesting feature to appear in [...]