New Toy

We just ordered a new MacBook to use when out and about, or if we just don’t feel like sitting in our office all day long. We’re gonna network it with our iMacs, and probably with our old PCs too, for shits and giggles.
Next purchase is gonna have to be some backup drives to […]

Leopard

We just pre-ordered the family pack of Leopard (that’s “Mac OS X version 10.5″ to non Mac geeks out there) from Amazon, which seems to have the best deal on it at the moment. Now all that we need is three more Macs to get the best value-for-money from that five-user license…..

Apple’s Safari Available For Windows

Apple has made available a public beta of Safari 3 for Windows systems. ‘Bout damn time.

Mitchell and Webb Apple UK Adverts

David Mitchell and Robert Webb from Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look appear in a series of UK-flavoured “Get A Mac” adverts.
What’s most interesting is that Robert Webb, the king of arrogant arsehole portrayal, comes across as much less of a smug twat than his American counterpart. Must just be Justin Long’s natural […]

Where Old Browsers Go When They Retire

Evolt.org’s Browser Archive is, unsurprisingly, an archive of old versions of pretty much every web browser that ever existed, and seems like it could be a very useful place for web developers who need testing tools.

Dark Room - WriteRoom clone for Windows

I find the idea of the Mac application WriteRoom fascinating, and have long wanted to try it out. I don’t know quite how long I went without noticing that on the WriteRoom page there is a link to a Windows clone named Dark Room, but I’m glad I finally opened my eyes.
For those that […]

Weighing a Switch to a Mac

The New York Times has an interesting article for people considering the pros and cons of buying a Mac (although the accompanying illustration is somewhat disturbing).

Swift - Safari On Windows?

I’ve been trying out Swift, the Webkit based web browser for Windows that is supposedly like running Safari on a PC. Swift is still in early alpha (v0.1 to be precise) but it’s shaping up to be a very promising project, with the potential to be a valuable tool for Windows-based web developers.
WebKit itself […]

Swift - Mac Browser On Windows (sort of)

Swift is a Windows web browser built around the OS X WebKit rendering engine. It is VERY alpha at the moment (0.1) and lots of things don’t work, but it is an interesting project for sure, and I for one will be trying it out.

I/O Redirection in Bash

I/O Redirection - “using some special notation we can redirect the output of many commands to files, devices, and even to the input of other commands.”