Most of the time when I download some new piece of software, it’s mere seconds before I’m frothing at the mouth about some interface or usability problem. Which makes me sit up and take notice when a piece of software just does something damned elegantly, damned easily, and damned beautifully. Bwana, from Bruji, is one […]

I really love NetNewsWire – it fits the bill for (almost) all of my aggregation needs. It even has a rather sophisticated syncing mechanism, which got even more advanced after the the product was purchased by NewsGator. But syncing isn’t really for me. Don’t get me wrong, I want to read news from more than […]

Some readers pointed out that in announcing FlexTime 1.1, along with its snazzy new interface, I left out some of the most interesting details to programmers. How did I accomplish all of the little things that add up to the new UI? Like everything else in life, you just bite off a little bit at […]

Erik Barzeski stumbled on a cool trick with Terminal’s scriptability, allowing him to save presets for his favorite color schemes in AppleScript. His approach is especially brilliant since he’s using FastScripts to trigger the scripts! This gave me a little whimsy of an idea, that it would be cool to have a script on hand […]