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06 August 2009

ThisService

ThisService is a handy MacOS scripting doohickie you can use to turn any Perl, Python, etc. script into a systme-wide service. I’m using it to convert older weblog entries from HTML to Markdown.

23 May 2008

MarsEdit 2.0 lands with new UI, Flickr integration, and more

MarsEdit 2 - Powerful Blog Publishing For Your Mac

12 June 2006

02 June 2006

Apple - Hot News - Key to "An Inconvenient Truth"

Apple - Hot News - Key to “An Inconvenient Truth”

Piece on how Al Gore’s production team uses Keynote (instead of PowerPoint) for his global warming presentation.

23 March 2006

Official Google Blog: Mac Gmail Notifier update

New version, universal binary.

14 February 2006

The World is Watching | Spread Firefox

Firefox now claims 10% of the worldwide marketshare.

05 January 2006

the Widget Foundry :: Amazon Album Art Widget

I’ll be giving this a try tonight.

15 December 2005

Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Icons: It’s still orange

Cool. It’s good to see collaboration going on.

30 November 2005

Firefox - Rediscover the web

New version of Firefox out (1.5). A few new features and loads of bug fixes.

02 September 2005

Gmail Notifier for Macs

gCount stopped working recently. Good to see this out.

30 May 2005

Wikipedia Dashboard Widget

Neat little dashboard widget that lets you query Wikipedia. I anticipate using this a lot.

30 March 2005

GameSpy: Will Wright Presents Spore... and a New Way to Think About Games

GameSpy: Will Wright Presents Spore… and a New Way to Think About Games

Cool writeup of a demo of Spore, a new game from Sim City creator Will Wright that lets you play God. You start creating microbes that eventually evolve, at your bidding, into space-faring cultures that can teraform others worlds. Seems really cool.

Super OS X Menubar Items

super OS X menubar items

Handy list of MacOS X menu bar widgets.

03 February 2005

New version of gCount

I use this little program to check my Gmail for me without having to keep the browser window open. A few weeks ago Gmail changed something and gCount stopped working. This new version fixes that.