The new PowerBooks came out today, and despite some criticism I’ve heard from people disappointed they weren’t dual cores or G5s, this is an amazing update. It’s a full system now, no upgrades needed. But the thing that stood out the most is ready scroll:
Scrolling through web pages or large documents on a trackpad can […]

This walks you through the steps of automatically backing up your Mac to an external hard drive using free software. In this case, the only piece of software you need that is not already on your Mac is RsyncX.
Sure, Macs come preinstalled with Unix rsync, but RsyncX is needed to preserve Mac-specific resource forks, […]

Steve Kirsch has archived a humorous listings of things to say when you’re, um, losing a technical argument. A few of my favorites:

Oh, I played with that approach back as an undergrad. Got a D, too.
Yeah, or we could all just plink away on Amigas or something.
I like it, but it is too point-oh […]

News.com is reporting that Netscape will soon release a browser with built-in anti-phishing measure. Details on how it accomplishes this are still vague, but it claims to be different from how Internet Explorer and Firefox detect phishing sites.
In related news, Thunderbird recently had an anti-phishing mechanism checked into one of it’s nightly builds.

Lately I have been looking around for a text editor that runs on Windows. I tried all of the usual suspects that I have seen suggestions for and they all lack what I am looking for.
Usually, the text editors I find for Windows lack one of the following:

Speed…it is amazing how slow a program can […]

This site has lots of tips on keeping your WindowsXP SP2 running clean and problem free. This guy claims to be running his on Celeron-A 466Mhz with 288Mb of Ram.
The site offers a pretty expansive list of links to articles offering tips on keeping your XP installation running in tip-top shape.

The ability to move 4.5 million iPod in a four month period has impressed many ad executives. So many in fact that Apple now reigns as most influential brand, ousting Google from their top spot. This is no surprise to me; Apple clearly has always been amazing at advertising, but thank God, they are finally […]

Everyone who has a blog has experienced problems with comment spam. Some have completely turned off commenting to keep from having to deal with the deluge of fake comments.
The Register has an interview online with someone in London who does comment spamming, or link spamming as some call it, and actually makes a pretty good […]

After two years in the red, Microsoft’s Xbox department has finally turned a profit. This is exciting both as a Xbox owner and a Microsoft shareholder. Maybe this will push my stock, which was once at $80 and now is at $26, to $30.
Strong hardware sales, coupled with the phenomenally successful Halo 2, means […]

Because soon or later everyone is tempted, here is a guide to using the Terminal Application to take control of the Unix software that OS X is built on top of.
Broken out into 9 sections, it covers everything from basic commands (cd, ls, etc.) to shell scripting.

Tony over at Ponderer.org has written a python script that goes out once a day, gets links from his del.icio.us account, crawls them.
It now crawls each link and sends an email to a gMail account with the From field being the page URI, the Subject being the tags, and the body being a copy […]

Plasticsmith has just announced new accessories for the MacMini. Pretty slick little monitor stands, as well as a nice looking stand that allows you to turn the Mini on its side, taking up even less space.
BTW, check out their slick laptop stand for when you are using it with a keyboard and mouse.

Pretty soon here I’m going to go out and buy a Mac Mini, and I’m going to equip it from scratch: new keyboard, monitor, and speakers. My mind is made up on all of those items but I know nothing about Bluetooth mice. After conducting a little research, I’m leaning towards the Logitech MX900. Reviews […]

Eris has a problem. A slight one, but one that bugs many people including myself. She doesn’t like the current design of laptops. I have owned 2 laptops in the past myself and never got into the flow of using them on a consistent basis to justify the cost (if those damn G5 Powerbooks would’ve […]

If you spend a lot of time typing plain text, writing programs or HTML, you can save much of that time by using a good editor and using it effectively. This paper will present guidelines and hints for doing your work more quickly and with fewer mistakes.

Bram Moolenaar, the main author of Vim, has put […]

Nicholas Negroponte is planning to release a PC that will sell for $100. Said to include a 14-inch LCD and running Linux, it is backed by AMD, Google, Motorola and others.
Only available to governments of developing countries at a minimum order of 1 million units. The Chinese Dept. of Education is said to be first […]