Sales trickery

The Top Ten Retail Ripoffs:

The ten items listed here are some of the most common “Sneaky Snake” deceptions used by unscrupulous salespeople to get in your wallet and “make the sale” at any cost. The variations on these themes are limitless, but with this general outline you’ll be able to spot a “snake” and protect [...]

Longhorn’s a comin’

I’ve never, ever been interested in an impending Windows release before. I admit it: my PC sits under my desk while my Macs sit on my desk. It’s a second-class citizen and I treat it as such. It’s not that I have anything against it per se (and in fact W2K, of which it runs, [...]

MARQUEE in Safari

When good programmers go bad: Dave “Surfin’ Safari” Hyatt off-handedly mentioned that he’s implemented the previously IE-only <marquee> tag in WebCore. Which got me to wondering: Does Safari support the venerable <blink> tag?
Tragically it does not.

Pictu and Panther: update

I’ve posted an interim release of Pictu (0.2.2) that fixes the transparency issue on Panther: http://www.postal-code.com/public/Pictu0.2.2.sit. If it’s bothering you, download this version. If not, wait for the next.

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