Two major impressions so far: It is very slick, I am glad it is not a part of iTunes monster app. It is almost as easy as on iOS, with only one major difference: your purchases are for a device you buy it on, not for your Apple ID, like with iOS. (UPD it is … Read more
GlimmerBlocker is a great tool for Mac OS X user to stop the ad banner craze. Comes with a sensible ruleset by default. To expand on it an fit my needs of browsing Russian web sites I have created a small filter feed available here: http://idisk.mac.com/ceesaxp/Public/runet.xml.
John Gruber questions the two drag modes in Safari: I don’t see why the intra-window (left-right) mode even exists. With the inter-window mode, you can do everything: reorder a tab within a window, move a tab to another existing window, or move a tab to its own new window. The intra-window mode only allows one … Read more
I have been looking for a simple program to entertain my daughter with drawing (she loves it) on a Mac. I’ve got a (cheap) Wacom tablet that wanted to employ as well. TuxPaint is nice, but I hate the rubber-stamp/clipart mentality it sort of forces one in (and sounds are annoying). Also, I think that … Read more
Not that it matters, but: I like new Dock. It’s more or less always hidden, hence it’s reflections are lost on me, the small dot looks more or less the same (so far) as the black one. Transparent menu bar — very much the same, I use a solid color background and end up nearly … Read more
There were numerous referenced posted on a variety of social bookmarking sites about smart hackers going for a re-implementation of this or that feature of Apple’s latest Leopard release of Mac OS X. And this is über cool that you can now hack your N800 to scroll like iPhone or to show a keyboard just … Read more
I have been going through the Apple‘s 300+ New Features page and quite a few made me feel excited and much more eagerly waiting for Leopard than before. Here‘s a quick run-down of what I like on that list: AppleScript: Full Unicode Support for AppleScript. Finally. With the rest of Mac OS being so much … Read more
There’re many versions of GNU Emacs to choose from when it comes to MacOS. There’s a standard console-only Emacs that comes with the system. There’s Carbon Emacs that (as the name implies) uses Carbon libs. There’s an Aquamacs — again, the name is telling. But what I found to be a very nice addition to … Read more
Here’s a situation: you have a bunch of MP3s of Russian (or Cyrillic in general) songs that you decided to drag-and-drop add to your iTunes library. No problem with that, except every once in awhile you end up with songs/artists/albums named using “birds language” instead of proper Cyrillic letters. I have once in the past … Read more