Erik Barzeski stumbled on a cool trick with Terminal’s scriptability, allowing him to save presets for his favorite color schemes in AppleScript. His approach is especially brilliant since he’s using FastScripts to trigger the scripts! This gave me a little whimsy of an idea, that it would be cool to have a script on hand […]

My summary of C4 includes what I think are the main points from John Gruber’s “HIG is dead” talk. (For those who aren’t famiiliar, HIG stands for Human Interface Guidelines, and is a long-lived and ever-violated prescriptive document from Apple). In that entry, I forced myself to (mostly) reiterate what I took away as the […]

Michael Tsai is the man behind C-Command, and well known for the past few years as the author of SpamSieve and DropDMG, in addition to his tireless work on ATPM. Last week he released EagleFiler, and I’m pleasantly surprised to see such a mature 1.0 application drop (swoop?) unannounced from the sky. I’m not sure […]

Apple shipped a Windows virus on a very small number of iPods, but like a child who can’t say sorry without adding a “but” clause, their announcement falls short of complete contrition. “As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves […]