Category Archives: programming

Some (Admittedly Late) Summer Reading (etc.)

Recently, after finding myself with rather more booktokens than I would usually know what to do with, I’ve been reading quite a few books recently- and thought that I’d post my latest reading list here:

Battle royale by Koushun Takami. While graphically violent, it definitely served the plot very well and proved to be a […]

New Version (coming soon) and other miscellaneous updates!

Here’s a preview of what’s soon going to be the new look of themak.org:

All critisism welcome for the new design.
The new theme is also going to mark a whole new version of themak.org, the move from the brilliant PALGN free hosting to an ASO shared hosting plan where I will also move this blog from […]

32 Rebuffed Mac Myths (Reply to: PC PRO’s 32 reasons why PC’s are better than Macs) 20-32

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32 Rebuffed Mac Myths (Reply to: PC PRO’s 32 reasons why PC’s are better than Macs)

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Thanks to Niklas

After an interesting chat with Niklas regarding my desire to learn the guitar he coded my a nice shell script to download me some youtube videos.
No, this is the last post for now.

My OSX powertools.

This is a post devoted to the ‘little things’ that make using OSX fun for me. A long overdue last article for the week in apps series.

My Adium set up: as you can see this offers little clue as to who’s online apart from their avatar(display picture, buddy icon etc.) […]

Statist for OSX

Of immeasurable value.
In other news: Statistics coursework looking less like a 50 tonne weight descending on me. Normal updates resume other end of the tunnel.

Zooomr Mark III

Hit photo-sharing website Zooomr is rolling out the long awaited and much anticipated Mark III, and should be finished by friday. All the best to them whilst they launch it.

Congrats to Matt Gemmell

Congratulations and good luck for Matt Gemmell who’s going independant in 2007. From the open source code that he’s released, it’s clear that we’ll be seing some rather exciting new program.

Sorting Algorithms

Tim just sent me a link to this comprehensive guide to sorting algorithms called sorting out sorting from the seventies.
Java sorting code.
Wikipedia page.
On another note I’m going to have a go at making these. Yum.

MacHeist

Yesterday I received an invitation to the new brainchild from the makers of mydreamapp (I voted portal); MacHeist. Personally I don’t know what it is yet, but I do know that I will get hevilly discounted or free shareware. And in my books, that’s a good thing.