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The Mac at Forty

Even in the darkest times (for Apple), in the mid to late 1990s, the importance of the Macintosh could not be understated. Today, exactly 40 years to the day, Apple is constantly contending for the top spot in market cap globally, the Mac is far from Apple’s most profitable product, but it’s arguably, still, one […]

TextMate 2 is now available under GPL3!

Who would've thought a few years ago that this day would come! Given the success of TextMate 1.x and the unprecedented delay in releasing TextMate 2, I guess open sourcing it makes sense. But GPL3? Really?

Why can't MySQL Workbench be like Sequel Pro?

There is a saddening shortage of proper MySQL administration/query browser tools on linux-based systems. MySQL Workbench is a free tool that consolidates what used to be MySQL Query Browser and the MySQL Administrator and introduces a data modelling editor that promises round-trip design and generation of DBs. It’s great news that Workbench is being implemented […]

Boxee Invites.

One of the most promising open-source projects regarding the home-theatre/TV (at last!) that combines excellent æsthetics, killer media features and social networking is Boxee. Boxee is based on the XBMC project. Note that while this is alpha quality software, it's impressively stable, yet unsupported. Boxee is currently available for the AppleTV/Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux 32bit - 7.10 and 8.04 only at the moment - and in source code form. I've got some invites for the invite-only alpha testing phase, so if you're interested drop me a comment below and I'll send you one. Update: No more invites here, comments are now closed. I'm sure you can find some elsewhere pretty easily.

HRDL 1.08 – OTE strikes again!

HRDLΆλλη μια έκδοση του HRDL ώστε να λειτουργει με τις σημερινές σελίδες του ΟΤΕ, και συγκεκριμένα τις αλλαγές που έγιναν πρόσφατα και απέτρεπαν το widget από το να δείχνει σωστά διευθύνσεις. Περισσότερα στο ChangeLog.

C4[1] Videos

C4[1] Videos, have been available on Viddler for about a month. For Mac Developers this is probably of some interest. [via daringfireball.net]

The Era of Cheap Pixels

Just a few weeks after Tiger was announced in 2004, I was chatting with a friend about how I thought Core Image could revolutionise the bitmap editing capabilities of applications on Mac OS X and, of course, how this would translate into an abundance of competitive image manipulation/editing applications making use of Apple’s optimised routines, […]