As much as it pains me to admit this so unequivocally, the Frog was right. I’m referring to the MacOS multi protocol messenger, AdiumX. This product is simply amazing. Everything is infintely customisable and tweaking it into the perfect, unobtrusive IM client that still provides the necesary notifications is not only possible, its made to look gorgeous at […]
Windows Programs
Last night I went searching for s small, fairly simple utility that would pull info from a CDDB database (or similar such as Amazon) and use it as the base for ID3 tags on MP3’s. I had resigned myself to the fact that most likely such an application was going to require Windows as almost all apps like […]
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OS X x86 + AltiVec == Too bad
Ok I thought this probably deserved a post of its own. I’ve just been playing with Rosetta under OS X running on x86. Its all working as well as can be expected and I’m currently running a number of apps that were compiled for PowerPC (Firefox, iTunes etc). This is using the Rosetta engine which inturn (I’ve been […]
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Public Property
An article on /. this evening got me thinking, again, about open source. Specifically today it was open source in government. The article was about how the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has release their latest version o e-tax, their electronic tax submission program and, surprise, surprise, its Windows only. Whilst it being a Windows program isn’t too frustrating […]
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