Quoted directoly from BareBones:
Bare Bones Software today announced the immediate availability of version 6.1 of BBEdit™, the company’s award-winning HTML and text editor. This update marks the first version of BBEdit that runs natively on Mac OS X, Apple’s next generation operating system.
Fucking awesome. One of the two press releases I’ve been waiting for… now if Adobe would get their shit together. Go fucking get it.
You might have noticed the new menu item in the nav bar that says ‘Mac OS X Tips.’ What is this strange new feature, you ask? Well, if you couldn’t tell by the name, it’s a permanent link to 808’s brilliant OS X tips & tricks post. It will be updated regularly, so if you need help with something, check there, but probably last.
I just found this WebMonkey article on how to correctly configure and install PHP as a DSO for OS X’s built-in Apache installation (which requires an update). PHP actually works for me now (yay! on a Mac!), but my previous MySQL install was a little screwy. Still working on getting PHP + Apache + MySQL to work together flawlessly, but now I’m much closer. The article also lists a place to get real OS X 10.0 (not PB or Rhapsody) packages for PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL and others.
One the funniest things on the web, ever. via K10k.
Slot cars. ExciteBike-like customizable tracks. Watch out for the mad oversteer on those babies… they’ll fly right off the track.
Should software companies and computer companies really be making television devices?
“Those in the PC world have been conditioned to expect that things don’t work out, but consumer electronics is a whole different world,” Snowden said. “People expect things to work on a TV.”
Apparently TiVo and UltimateTV systems are having problems (constant rebooting among other things), and consumer electronics buyers aren’t happy with them. And they shouldn’t be… for the longest time, the only thing you had to do in order to get a TV to work was plug the damn thing in, plug the coaxial cable into it, and viola… a working TV. But these computer-based TV systems developers (TiVo runs on Linux, and UltimateTV probably runs some sort of NT kernel, I’m expecting, seeing as how it’s MS-owned).. don’t understand that there is a zero tolerance in the entertainment/consumer electronics market for glitches. Something MUST be perfect before it leaves R&D and goes into production, because customers simply won’t tolerate the ‘update’ schema that computer users have been used to for so long. I’m not saying that updates are bad for computers, they are asked to do a million different things every day. But a television or TV system has a very limited and specialized routine to follow. A ‘glitch’ isn’t an accepted event in that world.
If you’re using OS X, and you keep clicking the time display in the right-hand corner looking for the application switcher, then this is for you.. It’s an app called X-assist that puts the application switcher back into its rightful place, and it brings ALL windows of an app to the front when you select that app, instead of just the one you chose. Nifty.
I hears that them there people’s at that New York Times news-a-ma-paper ain’t payin’ no ‘tention to them’s grammar…
No, I ain’t no smart man, but why in the heck wouldn’t they just-a get a rid ah that there bad story title? And what about them a-ma-postrophe’s there? Is they sposta be there, too?
This guy knows what’s up.. Apple saw their laptop sales rise 23% in February, leaving the rest of the industry behind at an average 2.3%.. And Compaq & Toshiba actually saw their sales drop a few points. We certainly will be eagerly awaiting Apple’s earnings announcement tomorrow… One of the only guys in the media to ‘get it,’ as we say at Alternate:
…software will never rival computers as a moneymaker for Apple. At the end of the day, it’s still cool new Macs that keep the company’s ping-pong court lit. Software such as OS X is the candy that tempts users to buy new Macs.
Yer preachin’ to the choir, man.
The desktop of the future? Hardly:
Scopeware abandons the file folder in favor of a line of index cards streaming into the distance; a search window parses the information. Released last month, browser-based Scopeware creates a searchable index of all textual information on an individual computer; corporate networks can be similarly indexed.
Yawn. I’d like to see it, though. And I liked this quote:
The typical corporate employee, for instance, spends two hours a day dealing with e-mail.
Might that be because the average corporate employee is a freakin’ moron? I dunno.
