Dustan Ingenthron

A personal blog.

Month: January, 2007

RubyOSA

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.

Mac OS X Downloads Page — Redesign

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. Mac OS X Downloads

Secure Gmail

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 […]

Happy New Year!

Best wishes for a happy and prosperous new year.