Pictu and Panther

It’s come to my attention that Pictu transparency may not work properly in Panther, which I do not have yet. As soon as I do I’ll figure it out. (Good thing Pictu is only at version 0.2, isn’t it?)

Proteron to Apple: “You ripped us off”

Samuel Caughron of Proteron Software is accusing Apple of ripping off their application switcher, Liteswitch X:

As you are aware, keyboard application switching is significantly improved. What is disappointing is that this “improvement” is a near pixel duplication of a Proteron product, LiteSwitch X. And despite the obvious similarities, Proteron has received no [...]

Pictu 0.2 released

Long, long ago (somewhere back in the OS 9 days) I had an idea: a utility that stuck a menu widget into the menubar and popped down the image of your choice when you clicked on it would be pretty cool. I finally got around to building it and voila! Pictu was born.
I’d planned to [...]

Degreeless…

…but ah raight code good.
Steve “Salad with Steve” Jenson points out that one of the (likely small but important) reasons his move to Google* was enjoyable was that his lack of a Comp.Sci degree was not an impediment:

When we were being acquired, Wayne [Rosing, Google Engineering lead - ed.] said that my lack of a [...]

MonkeyBread plugin parts go free

Christian Schmitz has made half the plugins in his fabulous MonkeyBread REALbasic Plugin available for free use (the remainder are commercial). Notable among the free ones are: EventMonitor, Appearance, Rect, and FolderItems.

When geeks rap

The geek shall inherit the earth, by way of hard-core gangsta’ rap. Fresh on a scene owned almost entirely by MC Hawking, from out of the Valley, comes MC Robot with Blue Falcon:

your C is sharp but your skills are flat cuz our code is old school like a backwards hat
So to you .NET [...]

“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. ” - Donald Knuth

The Knee Defender

The Knee Defender. Now this is a good idea:

Knee Defender stops reclining seatbacks so your knees won’t have to. 
Unique, patent pending Knee Defender gives you control when confronted by a faceless, determined seat recliner who doesn’t [...]

Linus on Linux

Actually the article in question is YA-Microsoft Doesn’t Get Open-source Software article but this, this is the interest, important, relevant bit:

“Because the software is free, there is no pressure to release it before it is really ready just to achieve some sales target. Every version of Linux is declared to be finished only when it [...]

Panther dissected

“Dive Into Mark” Pilgrim has dissected Panther, Apple’s OS X 10.3 release of the operating system, complete with dozens of screenshots. Pather looks fantastic.

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