Open In New Window
BBEdit's command line utility has a "open together in a new window" switch.
astormNice Use of the AJAX
MacRumors has a live ticker of the WWDC Keynote going that makes a nice use of AJAX.
astormWhy an Apple Phone Would Suck, Leading Me to Believe it will Never Happen
Suck, in this context, being defined as poor user experience. When you're using a mobile, there are four things that can drive you up the wall.
astormPrinting Google Maps
A short while ago, Google rolled out some minor, but significant changes to it's Maps product.
astorm21st Century Bust
At some point in the near future, the YouTube investors are going to cash out, selling their little phenomenon to the highest bidder and setting into motion the steps that will lead to the next big tech bust.
astormThe Cost of Black
In a move that can only be described as both genius and evil, Apple computer has
astormCut Copy Paste
The latest Daring Fireball got me thinking about the history of cut/copy/paste. Specifically, Gruber talks about the mnemonics and keyboard placement of the X/C/V shortcuts.
astormDead Simple Command Line XSLT Processor with PHP 5
Update: A few people have pointed out that OS X now has, by default, a command line XSLT processor. PHP is my hammer, the world is my nail.
astormOS X 10.4 and Transmit 2
After updating my mac to 10.4, I was having a problem with Transmit only allowing me a single FTP site as a favorite. Any attempt to add additional favorites would silently fail.
astormSecrets of Design
Skip design school kids, Cameron Moll has just let the secret out of the bag.
astormRunning Unix Text Filters on Windows
As I've moved more and more away from the independent, "we
astorm10.4 Upgrade
There's been a brief lull in work for the past few days, so with that last invoice sent out I finally got a chance to upgarde my primary workstation to OS X 10.4.
astormGD vs. ImageMagick
Anytime I need to do any server side manipulation of images I start off thinking "OK, let's just use GD. It's built into PHP and I won't have to muck about with perl, or worse, with PerlMagick.
astormMIT laptop
The MIT media lab released some prototype photographs of their "$100 Laptop". If you're not familiar with the project, the BBC has you covered.
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