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Adium themes use plain old XHTML, CSS and JS

In: Applications|Asides|Mac|Web development

28 Jul 2007

Just a quick note of something I found out while reading Transcending CSS: all the themes (message styles, contact list styles, etc.) in Adium are crafted with our old friends XHTML, CSS and JS. I opened up a few AdiumXtras to see for myself and true enough, <div>s and CSS rules make up the style. [...]

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So what exactly are you looking forward to in Leopard?

In: Applications|Mac|Operating Systems

13 Jun 2007

So there’s this big Leopard thing that’s the talk of Mac town (well, that and Safari) with all the new features being revealed (officially, at least, to the general public) at WWDC 2007. Some of the features are pretty cool, most of them are mundane. For me, I am really looking forward to: the new [...]

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That “Safari” thing…

In: Applications|Asides|Blogging|Mac

13 Jun 2007

So what exactly is new in Safari 3 (other than the big OMGWTFBBQ over Safari for Windows)? TUAW has the best writeup (with screenshots of course) of the new features in Safari 3 I’ve seen so far. Check it out if you’re lazy to try it out – I did install the beta and took [...]

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ImageMagick port “broken” temporarily

In: Applications|Mac|Open Source

29 May 2007

Just in case anyone runs into this problem (which, I might add, would probably go away when either the portfile is updated or the source mirror fixes the problem) while installing ImageMagick via MacPorts… While trying to install Rmagick on my spanking, new, glossy, kakkoii MacBook, MacPorts reported a checksum error with the ImageMagick source [...]

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IMAP-IDLE plugin for Apple Mail

In: Applications|Mac|Mozilla

25 Feb 2007

Yup I switched to Apple Mail from Thunderbird a few months back, primary reason being back then I was barely able to run my developer applications on 512MB of RAM (Apple Mail runs lighter than Thunderbird, unfortunately). It’s comforting to find that there is an IMAP-IDLE plugin for Apple Mail (Thunderbird got its IDLE support [...]

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