Check out the Ars Technica in depth review of Tiger. It’s long and it’s dense, but if you’re anything like me, you’ll walk away with a better understanding of OS design as well as a good idea of whether or not Tiger is a good buy for you. By way of Alex King.
Every now and then you happen upon something that strikes a chord, and the concepts you see before you seem to be taken from your own thoughts and desires about how the world is and how it should be.
Mark Cuban preaches a gospel of what it takes to truly be successful in business. Really, most of what he says applies to any craft/activity.
Lessig makes a case for municipal WiFi. Personally, I think we’ll realize one day that telecom infrastructure is just as important as roads are to our vitality as a sovereign state.
So, their’s Synergy:
a tiny Cocoa application for Mac OS X 10.2 (and later) that puts three buttons to control iTunes in your menubar
There’s also Synergy:
easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware.
Normally, I’d suggest a Googlefight, but that just doesn’t seem practial.
Tim Bray recently wrote an easy to understand summary of the possible directions development on multi-core processors is heading.
Tim Bray outlines developing for multi-core processors, and where the techniques for such development are heading. It’s a simple overview that’s useful to developers unfamiliar with that territory.
Some days, I just can’t write, and things don’t make sense. Hopefully the new version of this news is more easily understood.
Joel on Software blows my mind.
Did you know… you can Ctrl+C to copy the text of a Windows popup error message box to the clipboard?
Check out Billy Harvey’s website. It’s a great example of simulating 3d effects in Flash with simple scaling and volume manipulation. Oh, and it’s really cool too. That’s why you should check it out.
The individual songs from the Wired CD are now available for download at high quality. Previously, you could only download one large track containing the whole disc.
Vote for him, you know you need to. By way of Boing Boing.
The newest Halo 2 commercial “makes me feel like when we used to climb the rope in gym class.” By way of Scoble.
Congratulations are in order to Matt Mullenweg, leader of the WordPress community, for his new employment at CNET.
Joel Spolsky points to the nominated best software essays of 2004. I think it’s safe to say that a majority of my weekend has just been spoken for.