Great read that explores all of the Apple operating systems from Apple DOS to Mac OSX. Might only be interesting to the really hardcore Mac people, but I found it interesting in the respect that you don’t really see one OS evolve, but how a computer manufacturer can remain successful while jumping from os to [...]

This module allows Apache 2.0 to register its services on a Zero Configuration network (Rendezvous for you Mac peeps). This is exciting stuff and only goes to show the power of open source.
Zeroconf is a charter to have computers that network using TCP/IP without prior configuration: no address servers or name servers are needed. It [...]

Ever want to compute a modulus without using division? How about swapping the values of two variables without using a temporary variable? Well, now you can with these and loads of other hacks at Bit Twiddling Hacks. Written in C, the site provides numerous ways to perform simple calculations without sacrificing performance.
Found [...]

Some interesting observations about the Finder in OS X and specifically, about how iTunes and iPhoto are nothing more than glorified Finder windows.
Except that they don’t behave quite that like they are, which is frustrating when you want to organize your photos or music your way.

If anything go to this page to check out the Elmo image. I am beginning to see so many languages and not enough brain capacity for myself to become an expert at all of them. At least I will have fun trying.

I can’t tell if this is a hoax like the L computer appears to be, or if these people are really developing this “lady.”
Valerie is the most advanced android in the world having more degrees of freedom than any android shown up to now. She uses the AT&T speech synthesizer giving the [...]

Edd Dumbill (I didn’t make the name up) has come up with a great piece outlining what the GNOME foundation needs to do to meet the threat of Microsoft’s new XAML programming language. I don’t know why open source people just don’t start hitting up design colleges where people can work on their interfaces and [...]

Nothing sucks more than getting ready to pop in one of your all-time favorite games with your buds only to find out that your PS2 doesn’t feel like playing it anymore. Maybe the PS2 is jealous. Who knows? All I know is I bought the game for life, I better be able to play it [...]

Andy Budd comes through with a great walk-through on how to perform backups with MySQL and OS X. Good to see that you can get a high end unix machine with a great looking GUI and use open source tools. Sounds like a perfect world to me.

Safe browsing from a wireless network is always risky, but even more so when you are in a public space that offers a wi-fi “hot spot”, like some coffee houses do.
If you are using wireless WiFi (802.11b) public hotspots then you are sending and receiving all of your traffic in “the clear”. [...]

This is an article written for a business magazine in 2009.
It details how Google essentially takes over the Internet with use and control of the semantic web – a system which uses logic in a way that computers can understand, and allowing Google to move far beyond just being a simple search engine.

Whether religious or not, whether a “master programmer” or not, everyone should read this. Much like other “translations” (such as The Tao of Pooh) this is excellent.

Greeked up text, or lipsum, whatever you want to call it, is an important part of a designer’s toolkit. But what’s the best way to get the text to use? There are a variety of options, from the online Lipsum Generator to CF_GREEK and its corresponding PHP version. Enjoy!

I like IE. But it doesn’t have tabs, and it doesn’t have mouse gestures, and that just sucks. Fortunately, IE is just a shell for the IE engine… and anyone can write a browser that uses it. So there are several tabbed browsing wrappers for IE. The one I like the best is MyIE2.

Taking care of all your SCSI & Fibre Channel needs. Did I mention my next computer is also gonna have a screaming 15K SCSI RAID-5 setup? I didn’t? Well it is, and it is gonna be blazing fast. Why? Because I like em blazing fast.

How many of us pick fonts based on personal taste, what we think is best or what we desire for those browsing our web sites to see? I’m probably guilty of this myself.
Here’s a look at mainstream fonts, by operating system, with some interesting results based on user surveys.
There is a school of thought [...]