by Tom | Feb 27, 2008 | Reading
My gut instinct tells me that Adobe AIR won’t be mainstream despite some nice looking applications. Why? Isn’t it easier for most purposes to be in the browser, with a single set of enhancements (like plugins – how mainstream are they though) that...
by Tom | Feb 27, 2008 | IT
Along with Witch (which looks great). I am trying these things for greater Mac happiness:TinkertoolmucommanderSecure your Leopard installAdiumHandbrakePerianFlip4Mac
by Tom | Feb 27, 2008 | Reading
For some reason, this world chart made me laugh. The others in the set are also worth a view, although I can’t work out which songs many of them are.
by Tom | Feb 26, 2008 | Science
From over-effective pills to ones that just don’t work. I haven’t known many people on anti-depressants; I wonder if the efficacy will go down if they read this?
by Tom | Feb 26, 2008 | Reading
I hadn’t come across continuous-aim firing as an example of “it can’t work” innovation before. Joel writes an interesting article about his “it can’t work” moments. Others explain the firing quite cleverly (paras 12 and...