Macs

I really should get a b-links blog going. In the meantime: No G5 Powerbooks anytime soon. They're too hot. (OW! My thigh!) As a G4 TiBook owner, I can tell you that if Apple thinks these things are hot, they must be melting the flesh from engineers' bones. On the bright … [Read more...] about Still more random fun

My inbox got nuked this afternoon. If you sent me anything good in the last six hours or so, please resend! Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, the Panther installation is going well. grumble … [Read more...] about Email nuked. Argh.

1. Sobig 2. Klez 3. Bugbear 4. Fizzer 5. Magistr 6. Blaster 7. Code Red 8. Slammer 9. Nimda 10. Kournikova … [Read more...] about Top ten reasons to use a Mac

Since it's buried on the site in the iTunes area, here's the link to send Apple feedback on their new music store. My feature request: give me a button that lets me search the store for the track that's currently playing on the internet radio station I'm listening to. Right now I … [Read more...] about Apple Music Store Feedback

PerversionTracker keeps track of really bad software. Switch is a simple application to download and view Apple Switch ads. Which, in my opinion, makes it as useless as a yodeling ferret on a boogie board in the Serengeti. (via Forwarding Address: OS X) … [Read more...] about PerversionTracker

This may not be news to anyone but me and the person who was asking me about it, but Google turned up nothing on it for me a couple of weeks ago. A co-worker was asking me about Jaguar, and whether the shelf worked the same way it did in NeXT. I scratched my head and confessed I … [Read more...] about Using the NeXT shelf in OS X

I think I'm in love with iClip. How many times have I needed just one extra spot on the clipboard so I can shuffle two bits of code? … [Read more...] about iClip

For months I've been swearing at the email client I have to use at work because in the Mac version, the user has no control over the font used to display the messages. You can specify this on outgoing messages, but not on the ones you read. The manual says this is because the … [Read more...] about When good interfaces go bad, take 2

This just in: PicturePop is a brilliant little utility for OS X that lets you preview an image by right-clicking it in the Finder. Awesome. (via Six Apart.) Wrote one tiny snippet and some notes at lunch. Fingers too cold to hold pen… oh, btw, Monday's lunch writing … [Read more...] about PicturePop