Tag: mac

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  • Pixelmator released ... too early?

    Posted on Sept. 26, 2007 at 11:32 +0200 Tagged with , ,

    Tonight finally Pixelmator, the quite hyped new image editor for the Mac, has seen its first public release. And since I was actually looking forward to it, I gave it a try right after waking up ...

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  • MacApper launched

    Posted on Feb. 2, 2007 at 10:51 +0100 Tagged with , , , ,

    Logo taken out of a screenshot on macapper.com [more ...]

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  • Finally some news about Cookbook

    Posted on Jan. 19, 2007 at 23:46 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    After quite some time Austin Sarner and Michael Yuan finally posted some updates on the development progress of Cookbook again. For those of you who've missed the MyDreamApp contest last year: Cookbook is ... well, a digital version of a cookbook with a slick MacOSX GUI and some nifty extra features Whatever the Wii is doing in Mockup 3 :-?

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  • PDFView: A new PDF viewer for Mac users

    Posted on Dec. 27, 2006 at 13:42 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    It's not like there is a shortage on PDF support on MacOSX. First of all, you get a quite good PDF viewer with Preview.app bundled with MacOSX and there is also the Acrobat Reader series by Adobe ... although Acrobat Reader 8 is the slowest app I've ever seen.

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  • Download right into the Finder

    Posted on Nov. 5, 2006 at 23:15 +0100 Tagged with , , , , ,

    Well, no real story behind this. The motivation just came from the need to combine downloading dl.tv episodes and drag'n dropping them from Finder to Disco ;-) ). So I wrote a little script that would download me a file right into the current folder in the front most Finder window.

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  • Some suggestions for Disco

    Posted on Nov. 3, 2006 at 00:23 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    Disco.app is sorting files in mysterious ways

    I've now used Disco for about 3 burns (more than I've done in my whole first year as a Mac user) and so far I really like it. It's simply a nice and task specific application with drag'n drop. Just the kind of application I like the most.

    For the most part, you wouldn't notice that Disco has just entered the public beta phase. But there are a few places where it's more than obvious. For example, there is no help system, no scripting support and when it comes to file management before hitting the "Burn" button there are also a few things missing.

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  • Getting Starcraft for Mac ... Or dying trying

    Posted on Sept. 5, 2006 at 00:40 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    Sometimes I really wonder, if people actually want to sell their stuff. For the last couple of weeks I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of Starcraft + Broodwar for MacOSX. First I went to blizzard.com and found both for 9.99USD each ... Great, I thought, and went straight to their online shop just to find out, that they aren't shipping to Austria. So I tried to get in contact with someone from Blizzard Europe to ask why shipping to Austria isn't possible and basically help me with getting a copy. dieing

    What did I get as response? That they can't recommend me any shops that have it and that I should ask some of my friends if they've made any good experience shopping online ... What? I somehow doubt who ever wrote that actually read my mail and so didn't really notice that I was talking about their own online shop that is listed on the German Blizzard site.

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  • TWiT launches "MacBreak Weekly"

    Posted on Aug. 11, 2006 at 20:13 +0200 Tagged with , , , ,

    TWiT.tv now also has a Mac audio podcast probably as some kind of complementing part to the MacBreak video show. While I really like the video show, it was IMO lacking the amount of content you would normally expect when listening to a podcast by the TWIT crew. In MacBreak you always get one topic at a time for about 10 minutes per episode and most of the time with a guest. It is an absolutely nice show and everyone who has a Mac should at least know about its existance, but for my taste, the show is way too much designer-oriented. Sure, there are also the Automator episodes, but perhaps something different esp. from the developer side would be nice in my opinion ;-)

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  • lcc_dynanmic problem when compiling R libraries

    Posted on June 21, 2006 at 05:29 +0200 Tagged with , ,

    Today I wanted to install the evd library for R but somehow failed with such an error message:

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  • PowerPC optimized Firefox builds

    Posted on June 12, 2006 at 00:13 +0200 Tagged with , ,

    Being a browser jumper it normally only takes a really small reason for switching browsers again after having used one for some time without any problems. So it happened somewhen last week, that I once again went from Firefox to Safari. And the reason? Performance.

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