TextMate is by far the best editor I’ve seen on Mac OS X or any other platform I’ve used since 1989, both in terms of features, usability and æsthetics And in its relatively short history, from October 2004 to date, it’s managed to get its fair share of accolades, a huge following and countless extensions […]
As is the case for some time now this time of year, the Creative Commons and Wikipedia are asking for your support (== money) to keep doing what they are doing. I find that — at least — Wikipedia is doing a great job and is a highly valuable community service worth supporting. Creative Commons, […]
About a month ago I wrote about the surge in comment spam this site has experienced. Well, it’s still going through the roof. I’m getting more spam everyday. This past few days I’ve received more than 800 spam comments per day. It took several months to cross the 1,000 mark. Last month I was at […]
MacHeist is a bundle of Macintosh applications where 25% of the price paid goes to charity. It consists of 9+1 applications, many of them award winning and pretty well known, that — if bought separately — would cost around $300. The bundle goes for $49. The applications are Delicious Library, NewsFire, FotoMagico, ShapeShifter, DEVONThink Professional, […]
“In a World. One Man. About Five Billion Cigarettes” The_Archetypal_Hollywood_Voice_Talents used to be amusing. Ridiculous. For a while. They’ve long become an intrinsic part of Hollywood trailers; action, the dumb jokes, the authoritative narration. Last week I was in London and some friends and I were planning on going to see The Pan’s Labyrinth an […]
I’m in London for a few days and I couldn’t avoid paying a visit to the Regent Street Apple Store. I’ve been in the market for a laptop for some time now and while my plan since late last year has been to get a Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro (C2D MBP), as soon as […]
A few weeks ago I stumbled across Inconsolata, Raph Levien’s monospaced font and it has since become one of my favourites. The font is clearly inspired by Consolas, the new monospaced font designed by Lucas de Groot for Microsoft’s Windows Vista Operating System. Inconsolata borrows several characteristics of that font, but is longer in height […]