November 20th, 2007
The Firefox 3 developers have been working on a visual refresh that integrates more tightly into the OS, and the Mac OS X version is looking pretty sweet. Well, public opinion varies greatly - from people who feel that it’s a rip off of Safari to those who really like the Brushed Metal look (myself included).
Well, if you wanna check out the proposed Mac OS X Firefox 3 UI for yourself, grab yourself a copy of Firefox 3 Beta 1 and go get the Proto theme.
September 7th, 2007
After seeing this amusingly-named SSID, I thought it’d be fun to post the SSID of my wireless network at home:
The name is completely not my idea so I claim no credit - I stole it from my girlfriend’s brother, who conceived the SSID of “AssAssID”.
What’s your SSID and have you seen any amusing ones? Or is yours one of the bajillion ‘linksys’ or ‘DLINK’ SSIDs in existence?
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. Very smart decision by the Adium developers. (1)
Read the bug fix announcement. Upgrade! This was causing extremely puzzling crashes in Safari on Macs (pre-Safari 3 beta) on one of our applications and I’m glad (in some ways) that the problem lay with the Prototype library. (2)
June 13th, 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 Finder - Finder sucks so bad as a file system interface. I use Path Finder, which incidentally had an upgrade recently to 4.7. The new Finder looks pretty (Cover Flow for files, sexy!) but what I’m really hoping for is a Finder with which you can actually be productive.
- Ruby and Rails baked right into Mac OS X - while installing Rails and upgrading Ruby is a breeze on Mac OS X as it is right now, having these installed by default is pretty sweet. Even Capistrano will be included. Now, how one upgrades Ruby is another thing though…
- Time Machine - Even though I already own a licensed copy of SuperDuper!, I’m still eager to use Time Machine. I mean, who isn’t hooked on the time travel metaphor yet? It’s like System Restore done right (with the advantage of hindsight, of course).
What are you looking forward in Leopard?
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