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In Depth Tiger Review

tor — Mon, 02 May 2005 18:13:57 +0000

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.

Mark Cuban Mini-Manifesto

tor — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:55:12 +0000

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.

Broadband: Vital to the State

tor — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:04:08 +0000

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.

Copyright Myths

tor — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:40:57 +0000

A great list of common misconceptions on copyrights.

When Ponies Sing

tor — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:53:57 +0000

It’s so wonderful.

Synergy vs. Synergy

tor — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:55:56 +0000

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.

Multi-Core Is Your Future

tor — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:24:29 +0000

~~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.

RegEx Online

tor — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:45:12 +0000

Found a great online regular expression testing page.

Exact Error Messages

tor — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:24:05 +0000

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?

Billy Harvey Is Good

tor — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:34:52 +0000

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.

Wired CD High Quality Download

tor — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:38:40 +0000

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.

Cobra Commander For Prez!

tor — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:02:42 +0000

Vote for him, you know you need to. By way of Boing Boing.

Halo 2 New Commercial

tor — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 15:29:54 +0000

The newest Halo 2 commercial “makes me feel like when we used to climb the rope in gym class.” By way of Scoble.

WordPress Creator Hired by CNET

tor — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:04:28 +0000

Congratulations are in order to Matt Mullenweg, leader of the WordPress community, for his new employment at CNET.

Holy Required Reading, Batman!

tor — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:10:38 +0000

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.

Lunar Eclipse

tor — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:05:30 +0000

Lunar eclipse tonight at 9:14 PM Eastern. By way of geek ramblings.

Everquest 2 Release Date

tor — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:16:27 +0000

Everquest 2 will be released on November 8th.

Halo 2 comes out on the same day. I think it’s fair to say that you’ll be seeing some reviews of kickass games.

Poker Chip Tricks

tor — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:39:20 +0000

Poker Chip Tricks has great walkthroughs and videos on all kinds of, you guessed it, poker chip tricks. My personal fav is the thumb flip. The site runs WordPress to boot.

Mono Web Hosting

tor — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:18:45 +0000

Miguel de Icaza isn’t the last to know about monoForge, a free place to test .Net applications using the open source implementation of .Net, Mono.

New Amazon Look

tor — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:11:12 +0000

Amazon looks to have cleaned up their top navbar. I like it, here’s a pic.

Update: This style appears to only be pushed to FirefoxRC1 and Safari on OS X. Weird.