31 mars 2008

23:56

Apple hit with new, colorful lawsuit over iMac displays

This new suit was filed today in San Jose, accusing Apple of pulling the same color dithering trick on the latest 20-inch iMac that it did with the MacBook and MacBook Pros cited in the previous lawsuit. […] the 20-inch iMac is stuck with a 6-bit display and only 262,144 colors, before dithering.

Je peux comprendre qu’on doive faire des compromis sur un portable, mais je n’arrive pas à croire qu’Apple se ferait de nouveau prendre à utiliser des écrans 6-bits sur des tout nouveaux iMac. Mais ça serait un peu inintéressant, comme poisson d’avril, donc je vais devoir accepter l’idée qu’ils ont vraiment décidé de pousser la radinerie à son comble.

 
17:50

Mac Shot First: 10 Reasons Why CanSecWest Targets Apple

Une intéressante explication/théorie sur le fait que le portable Windows n’a été hacké qu’un jour après le Mac, et personne n’a eu celui sous Ubuntu : entre autres arguments, Vista SP1 est tellement récent que la plupart des participants ne s’attendaient même pas à le trouver là, et il y a plusieurs raisons de ne pas être motivé à utiliser une vulnérabilité de Linux dans une conférence comme celle-ci. Alors qu’étant données les parts de marché du Mac la meilleure des choses à faire avec une vulnérabilité OS X pourrait bien être de gagner 10 000 $ dans un concours.

via the.taoofmac.com

 
16:03

A drunk Jeff Goldblum pitches the iMac

 

29 mars 2008

02:46

Clever Uses: CD/DVD Spindle Cable Organizer

 

28 mars 2008

20:22

It's sad that I wish I had a MacBook simply as an occasional Remote Desktop client, just because Apple's VNC server is fucked up.

 

27 mars 2008

20:51

I can get used to Buzz Out Loud not researching its topics, but if they're gonna ridicule people about news they only read the title of...

 

26 mars 2008

21:12

Prévisualisation de TinyURL

Ajoutez un cookie sur votre browser pour passer en mode “preview,” et tous les clics sur des liens tinyurl.com vous amèneront sur une page intermédiaire affichant l’URL d’origine, vous laissant le choix de continuer ou revenir en arrière. Probablement plus chiant qu’autre chose en usage quotidien (sauf pour les paranos — ou les utilisateurs de MSIE6), mais c’est bien que ça existe.

 

(Mon dieu, comment un site aussi atrocement moche peut être si utilisé dans l’univers du web 2.0 ?)

via bol.cnet.com

 
02:06

Asaph Microblog

The video demonstrating its bookmarklet is damn impressive indeed. I’m gonna look into that (although I have much more use for my current Applescripts than bookmarklets, since I do most of my websurfing in NetNewsWire).

via daringfireball.net

 
00:35

The next version of Windows should really refuse to run on anything but a narrow selection of compatible hardware. Stop the madness.

 

25 mars 2008

22:29

Apple actively working on system font rendering in Safari for Windows

In case you were still wondering, after last week’s controversial “update” push, how serious Apple is about gaining browser market share in Windows.

via daringfireball.net

 
04:04

Illusion PC

Good old fun with mirrors, freak-show style.

 

22 mars 2008

00:52

I'd like to set Twitter up so I'd be notified of new followers only if they follow less than a hundred people or something.

 

21 mars 2008

23:16

iTunes keeps crashing while moving downloaded podcasts from temporary storage to the new, crappy USB drive that stores my library. Damnit.

 
20:08

Safari 3.1 brings true one-window mode

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

I’m not in a hurry to try it, though: it took Firefox three point-oh releases to be really clever about forcing new windows into tabs, so I definitely don’t expect a hidden Safari pref that’s inactive by default to get it right.

 

20 mars 2008

03:35

#HEADERTEXT { -webkit-transform: rotate(-4deg); }

Not quite surprisingly, CSS rotation in Safari 3.1 doesn’t look so great. But I guess I might keep it for originality’s sake until everyone’s doing it.

 

P.S. This is nicer: a:hover { -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; }

 

 

19 mars 2008

20:26

"Javascript is a spice" — Garett Dimon.

 
04:10

I was wondering why I couldn't type rich-text messages in Gmail anymore, and just remembered — Safari 3.1?

 

18 mars 2008

17:43

Twitter over IM is not just annoying, it also skips half the tweets, including direct replies I'd very much like to read thank you.

 
17:34

Okay, Twitter over IM is annoying, I'm installing Twitterific even though I wanted to limit the number of open apps here.

 
17:15

Safari 3.1 Is Out

I have to look into CSS web fonts, but that means embedded fonts are coming to the iPhone, doesn’t it?

 

15 mars 2008

21:28

If I were a secret government agency, I'd make hard drives that pretend to fail after two months and come back to support full of personal data.

 
01:02

TweetStats :: for garoo

Nothing really interesting; it’s just always fun to see your body of work distilled into a bunch of nice bar graphs.

 

14 mars 2008

21:48

Facebook To Launch Instant Messaging Service

Heh. Making a good, convenient web chat for social networks was near the top of my list of possible future-soon projects. I guess I should hurry and develop my concept for a Nutella-filled bathtub with integrated pickle dispenser before someone makes that, too.

In the meantime, this should do for Jabber (and against MSN or AIM) what Google Talk failed to achieve. So it’s definitely a “yay” (unless they screw it up).

 
03:56

Down for everyone or just me?

Like Gruber says: “Clever, self-descriptive web service.”

 

11 mars 2008

21:46

Okay, screw del.icio.us, it doesn't let me post decent quotes with my links.

 
16:08

Tired of NetNewsWire eating all my CPU; it may well be time to really move to Google Reader.

 
04:19

Has anyone used Google Analytics on a site with variable domain names? Because I'm clearly missing something. And some numbers.

 
00:17

Good god the number of morons reporting on the iPhone 2.0 contact list's magnifying glass that's so very clearly not a button.

 

10 mars 2008

20:15

For all the limitations I'm not sure I really dislike having only a Mac mini and a small screen on my desk.

 

9 mars 2008

19:24

AppleCare okay until May; all I need is a USB-to-SATA adapter and a replacement Mac with a 250GB+ drive for three weeks. Yeah, all I need.

 
19:06

Just found out about the iMac's internal diagnostic LEDs; the motherboard is fucked. And I don't think I'm still under AppleCare.

 
17:08

If I hadn't switched to the Mac I'd only have to go to the supermarket first thing tomorrow and buy a new power supply for a couple euros.

 

8 mars 2008

22:33

Wonder if Real seeds .rmvb files on BitTorrent trackers to improve the RealPlayer install rates.

 
17:32

Turning off ICQ; tired of spam. Don't really think I'll miss it.

 

7 mars 2008

03:49

I keep looking at my iPhone and thinking "Hey, I haven't downloaded and tried that new AIM app yet." Soon followed by "Oh, right, damnit."

 
01:40

Do you think the AT&T honchos went "Heyyyy WTF?" when they heard about Apple demonstrating an AIM app?

 
00:57

I find it quite creepy that I heard about PodWorks several times (and remembered) in the week before my media hard drive crashed.

 

6 mars 2008

20:07

I think Apple just killed the PSP.

 
18:29

The new Pownce app (and/or AIR runtime) doesn't feel as bloated and sluggish as before. But still too many clicks required to post.

 

1 mars 2008

20:33

The latest prototype OS X skin for Firefox 3 hides the URLs from the address bar's autocomplete dropdown. Free doesn't excuse stupid.

 
20:04

Isn't "Don't warn me when opening applications on this disk image" an encouragement to actually use apps in their disk image? Yeesh.

 
14:49

"If Twitter outages are causing problems downloading tweets, try using Reset Connections (Cmd-.) and then refresh." I call that a bug.