I read Jason O’Grady’s comments (via Daring Fireball) on the keyboard backlight of the MacBook Pro with some surprise. I am the proud owner of one of these new machines, and his experience doesn’t exactly match mine. Granted – I don’t have a PowerBook G4 to compare against – I haven’t owned another Mac laptop […]

Today I’m posting two updates: a minor revision to FastScripts, and a major version upgrade to Clarion. In addition to more tangible features, both FastScripts and Clarion are now Universal – tested on a Core Duo iMac. To Apple’s credit, I spent more time getting to the iMac (I don’t own one yet – waiting […]

A lot of my readers have noticed that this blog covers extremely geeky programming topics that often fly right over the heads of less technically-submerged people. It’s not an intelligence thing – it’s all just jargon and experience. So every once in a while I’d like to pull my head out of my assumptions about […]

On the morning of January 10, I woke up expecting to waste a couple hours of my day scouring web sites and IRC channels for the latest transcriptions of Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote speech. It didn’t really bother me that it was not being streamed live this year, because every other year when they’ve tried […]