Archive for the 'Software' Tag

Once upon a time I wrote a dashboard widget called Twitgit. It lets you interact with Twitter from the Mac OSX Dashboard.

In the face of stiff competition from the Icon Factory’s magnificent Twitterific application, Twitgit has been rather neglected for over a year now. It’s hard to motivate yourself to write software that you don’t [...]

I have never been as happy with a piece of electronics as I am with my iPhone. It is the finest example I know of a device which is superior because it performs its limited functions astoundingly well, rather than many functions badly. The absent features (picture messages, sending texts to multiple recipients, an RSS [...]

For my Last.FM update and syncing needs I’ve long been a user of iScrobbler — rather than the official client. It’s minimal, tidy and provides funcational-enough iPod updating too.

There’s a new beta of 1.5 just come out and it’s got a really neat new integration of the ‘Love’ and ‘Ban’ buttons normally associated only with Last.FM [...]

In which I complain about the look and feel and Parallels Desktop for Mac OSX.o3

As summer stretches on I’ve increasingly found that there’s just no way I’ll cope with using my PC as a full-time machine again. The Mac experience is just too beautiful and working on my iBook is dancing through poppy fields compared to wading through Windows treacle.

That said, this luxurious level of comfort comes in no [...]