I’ve decided to make a slimmed-down version of FastScripts available, starting immediately in conjunction with a minor 2.2.7 upgrade of FastScripts. FastScripts Lite [d/l] offers much of the same organizational and performance functionality of FastScripts, at an infinitely lower price. What you don’t get in FastScripts Lite is best summed up by what you do […]

I’ve recently installed Mint, a statistics gathering package, on my web site. It’s basically a souped up referral/hit recording package, similar to what Google is now offering for free. Why pay for Mint when I can get the Julep for free? Several reasons. First, Google is not accepting new users for the service right now. […]

A nifty and not-so-obvious feature of the Shark tool that comes with Apple’s CHUD performance tools, is the “instruction set reference” that you can pull up for either PowerPC or Intel ISAs. The feature is hidden away in Shark’s Help menu: Selecting either reference item brings up a floating window giving you easy access to […]

The relationship between Dell and Apple has historically been hit-or-miss. Mostly miss. At times the companies have seemed on the verge of a friendly relationship, while more often the strong-headed leaders of each firm have gone public with the extent of their disdain for each other. This charming interplay will be missed – because 2006 […]