Category Software
The 'Hackintosh' experience.
These past few years have been part of a period in which the computing industry, for the first time after many years, has been in flux. The importance of web applications is growing everyday. Alternatives to well-established platforms and application software, often powered by open source software, are challenging the status quo and there was […]
This might be a repeat of 2005
Usability and Eye Candy: The UI Impasse
Microsoft Windows Vista came out just a few days ago. This is a major update to the world’s most popular Operating System and comes with numerous ‘improvements’ in both its underlying frameworks and components and its appearance and user-oriented features. One of the hightlights of Windows Vista, according to Microsoft, has been its renewed æsthetics […]
Adium 1.0
After many months of development and many more β releases, Adium 1.0 was released today! It's got loads of fixes and improvements and it's based on libgaim 2.0. Yay.
I dare anybody to [hack into] once a month on the Windows machine.
Flickr! Wants! Yahoo! IDs!
Microsoft attempts to patent core-BlueJ functionality
Is (Un)FairPlay condemned?
Almost 14!
The Apple Newton may have been canned by Steve Jobs as part of his efforts to get Apple out of the red in the late 90s, just when the most powerful and promising models were coming out. It might also have been criticised early on for its quirks. Many have openly stated that it was […]