Monthly Archives: August 2006

Teaser

Update:

Here’s a quick teaser of the website that I’ve been working on for a while.
As to what it does, I’m not telling quite yet.

Oh and .

Sxore 2 mockup (unofficial)

Recently I have been pointed to the sxore roadmap where they promise far tighter integration with wordpress for comments, such as using the wordpress comment database and form for the comment system. Also with the addition of multiple single sign on technologies. Yes, that is oxymoronic, but I won’t tell anyone if you don’t. I’ve […]

Media Player (5/6)

For the penultimate in this series, I will cover the Media Players that I use on MacOSX. (Tim is currently having website problems).
Firstly there is the venerable QuickTime.

Although it certainly is a worthy media player it is held back by QuickTime pro, the version that has all the useful features unlocked. Firstly fullscreen is […]

Zooomr outage

Last night photo-sharing site zooomr’s serversdecided that it was time to fall off the internet. Fortunately they are now safely within the dump truck full of snakes that is the internets, distributing huge amounts of data- huge amounts of data.

Office (4/6)

This is the fourth part in the week in apps series, Tim again joins us- but unfortunately his server isn’t working too well and will be posting here instead.
What can I say about Microsoft?
They make the best Office suite.
When I used Linux, there was only one thing that drew me back to using Windows; Microsoft […]

IM clients (3/6)

In this, the third post of the week in apps series, Tim and I. Will be looking at Instant Messaging clients.

For inter-service compatibility, there is none to beat AdiumX. Being open source I can always run the latest version on the svn tree- not suggesting this as a smart thing to do. The SVN version […]

Site updates-

Switched themak.org to k2.
Will be custom building an inverted scheme soon, and enabling some fun features.
Nearly finished inverted theme, just have to tweak display of PNG files in IE and make a cool new slider image.
Also MAC OSX overshadows microsoft totally in the sidebar in IE, quite apt.

Web Browsers (2/6)

Today is the second installment in the week in apps series and Tim again joins us for Web browsers.
On any other platform, the choice for a good powerful tabbed web-browser is fairly easy; Firefox. But on OSX it looks nasty:

It uses custom widgets.
It uses Aqua and a menu. Not unified.

So I looked for an alternative, […]

Zooom Zooom Zooom *crash*

It would seem that portals and notes have been enabled on zooomr, although it’s a pity the javascript isn’t working in Camino. Also, the tabs at the top of the screen aren’t displaying properly.
IMG_1750 Hosted on Zooomr
So Portals are now working, and indeed cool.

Mail Apps: (1/6)

This week I’m going to be examining certain applications on my desktop running OSX, and Tim will be doing the same for Linux.
Mail.app

It could be said that there is only one real choice for an email client for OSX: Apple Mail. For one it comes pre-installed with OSX and secondly; it genuinely is the […]

Core Animation In Leopard

Since the leak of the Leopard beta, quite a few interesting videos detailing the powers of core animation. Although I wonder why it was not shown at WWDC keynote, although I might think that Apple isn’t best pleased at this leak.

Seems that support is reliant on Core Image, so yay for my iBook […]