Archive for the 'Apple' Category

Borrowed Feathers

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

I could not help noticing something familiar about Viasat Norway’s new home page…

Update:
Another slight similarity:

When to use iWeb?

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

UPDATE: iWeb has been updated and improved since this was written.
This post is off topic in at least two ways: first of all, this blog is mostly about professional tools, and secondly this site is not about the author’s personal life. No rule without exceptions..
I recently became a father, and that was indeed a great [...]

Make your Apple Mail look right in Outlook

Friday, October 13th, 2006

One of the many problems with Apple Mail is the way that it handles typography in rich text messages. You are able to set ‘Message Font’ under ‘Fonts & Colors’ in Preferences, but this is a little misleading. What you are actually setting is how you would like to view your own emails, not how [...]

Make your portable mac behave differently in different locations

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

image © Apple
Different places, different needs
Startup Items lets you open the same applications every time you log in, but that is not necessarily what you want. I have different uses for my MacBook Pro depending on where I am, and I want different programs started and different servers mounted at work than I do at [...]

Insomniac Mac

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Technology often acts really strange, and sometimes makes us act strange too.
My three year old Powerbook G4 suddenly got into the habit of turning itself off a few seconds after I turned it on. Technical support told me it’s probably a failure in the power management unit that makes it sensitive to heat.
Since I was [...]

Internet development on a Mac

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

The best way to do internet development is to set up your mac to do it all locally. PHP and MySQL are the most popular tools for internet development, and they will be the focus of this article. There are many sites telling you how to install these, but most require compilation and [...]

Hidden gem in Mac OS X

Monday, June 12th, 2006

If you haven’t installed the developer tools that came with your mac, you’ve probably missed out on Quartz Composer. This fantastic little program lets you build great screen savers or movies by drag & drop.
Zugakousaku has made some of the best examples.