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 [...]
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 [...]
So, when did you last back up the information on your computer? In the last 24 hours? Last week? Last month? Never? If the answer is never, just consider the time and effort you have put into downloading and installing software, downloading movies and music, ripping your favourite CDs; writing letters, saving e-mails and images, [...]
My favourite Mac commentator, John Gruber, has more to say today about the much discussed Apple versus ThinkSecret lawsuit. For any reader who doesn’t already know, the lawsuit revolves around leaking of confidential information about (at the time) unreleased Apple products, which the ThinkSecret editors published on their site. Apple is (I believe) suing for [...]
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 [...]
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