Today, Amazon officially announced the Kindle eBook reader and associated services. This has already produced a flurry of blog posts all over the place. The device is not yet available, but it alre...

Windows Explorer has long had an option to show the path of the current folder in the title bar of the window. This is a very convenient feature which was lacking in the Finder so far.Leopard now h...

Here are a few of my issues with it:<ul><li>It crashed at least once.</li><li>It feels quite slow, certainly slower than the Windows Remote Desktop, for example. Maybe becau...

Since Apple still doesn’t think that supporting a free, fast, unemcumbered, lossless audio codec is a good idea, I had been using Play on Tiger. Unfortunately, it is broken on Leopard. Version 0.2 ...

Last night, I figured (completely irrationally) that I would take the jump and upgrade to Leopard. Here is my first feedback after one day of work with it:<ul><li>I got the infamous “bl...

I just found this old post by Norm about a pretty cool idea:<blockquote>“Some of my friends engage in a friendly contest: they compete to see who can visit the most countries. It’s a life-lon...

I am hereby (13949712720901ForOSX) casting my vote for Java 6 on Leopard. But even more importantly, I am asking Apple to realize that good communication is of the essence.As much as I dislike Wind...

My last US driver license expired in 2004 and I had to get it renewed. Here is how it went:<ul><li>Setup appointment at the San Mateo DMV with their online form (if you don’t get an a...

I am a big user of SLIMTIMER. Not a minute is spent at work without it running, and more and more I am using it for personal tasks as well.I run the Timer in the Firefox sidebar. However, I have co...

I was stunned to realize that the Mac OS X Tiger terminal doesn’t support accents (and other non-ASCII characters) by default. This includes pasting accented characters in the terminal, listing fil...