Yesterday I got my iPod, which completely rocks. How cool is it to have basically your entire music collection (the parts worth listening to, at least), in your hand? Then I found out about Wire Tap, a free utility which saves to your hard drive any audio playing on your Mac, whether it’s a song, [...]
I’m getting an iPod – a slightly used one, but a lovely 20G model with loads of extras, including a transmitter for use with a car stereo and a car charger. Now, no more geek purchases til Panther comes out.
Andrew Anderson has a nice walk-through on using ODBC in Jaguar. Haven’t had to do it much myself yet, but it’ll come in handy.
Very cool news: Trolltech will release a version of Qt/Mac, its cross-platform GUI builder, next week. What that means is that I’ll be able to run KDE applications natively – so KWord, for instance, looks like a Mac app, not a Linux one. And that means more attractive software choices for OS X users.
A year ago the Baltimore Sun introduced RSS feeds, and now they’ve got a Konfabulator widget for OS X that displays the latest headlines from the paper. First such one I’ve seen from a newspaper. Update: for some reason I was unable to download it correctly, so the Sun replaced the .dmg file with a [...]