A personal blog.
The “financial crisis” that has been making headlines the last few days is not something new; it has been building for a long time. However, many are unsure of exactly what has happened. The following excerpt does a good job of condensing the majority of the issue down into a simple explanation. If you have a couple of minutes it is, in my opinion, worth a read.
Anyone else notice the similarity between the icon on Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s website, and the icon from a certain popular mobile phone interface?
Mac using BitTorrent junkies rejoice. You will soon have a new tool at your disposal, and a fine one at that. BitTorrent Inc. has announced thata Mac version of the popular uTorrent client is now in private beta, and will soon be available.
Google Docs has updated it’s look a bit. So far the changes only apply to the document list, but hopefully it will spread to the rest of the Google Apps. A much needed update. Those Playskool colors have got to go.
Update: Google has posted about the change on their offical blog.
Every so often someone comes up with a bit of software that makes you ask, “Why the heck hasn’t anyone done this before?” Enter MiniMail. I’ve only been playing with it for a few minutes, and I’m already hooked.
MiniMail is a plugin for Apple’s Mail application. Just as the mini-player in iTunes does for music; MiniMail puts information about your inbox at your fingertips. You can easily see messages as they arrive, and quickly action them. You can resize the window any way you like to conserve as much screen real-estate as possible.
Check it out at OliveToast
It is no secret that I’m a fan Bare Bones Software’s Yojimbo. I especially find the .Mac syncing useful. Now there is another way to access your information from multipule locations.
Webjimbo: A Web Interface for Yojimbo
Webjimbo is a web interface for Bare Bones Software’s Yojimbo. It lets you view and edit your Yojimbo data from any computer with an internet connection and a web browser.
The software is currently in closed beta testing, and they are promissing a release in the near future.
RubyOSA is an interesting project brought to my attention today via Bare Bones Software’s “Yojimbo” mailing list.
RubyOSA is a bridge that connects Ruby to the Apple Event Manager infrastructure. In other words, it allows you to do in Ruby whatever you could do in AppleScript.
Apple today quietly rolled out a redesign of the OS X downloads page. The new look follows the same design ideas used in the new .Mac & Web Mail pages, and is a nice improvement.
Matthew Russell over at MacDevCenter.com has posting an interesting tip about gmail.
Up until recently, I had always used gmail by typing http://gmail.com into my browser. At some point, however, I started asking myself questions about security and wondered if an https flavor was available. It turns out that it had been there all along and so began the era of more secure gmail for me.
Best wishes for a happy and prosperous new year.