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An excellent collection of little songs using OSX’s internal speech system. Now THIS was a triumph!
osascript -e ’say “oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So why keep you listening listening listening while you are supposed to work to work to [...]

…from what’s pure propaganda. Wake up, 1984 kids… The Big Brother is making the news.

Getting Rails (and related stuff - RMagick, MySQL, etc) to run on OS X is an easy task, although not as straightforward as it seems at first. Here’s a small collection of things that you have to do to have it done in just a few minutes:
- Install MacPorts, an apt-get like package manager for [...]

Same arguments apply to myopic people, of course. Nice thoughts from a wannabe fanboy on his pursuit for a usable OS (and why fonts are a very important portion of that matter!)

So your top-notch, picture-perfect, super-duper OS doesn’t support one of the most basic things ever invented - cut and paste. What do you do about it?
a) “It’s not like that because it’s DANGEROUS!”
b) “This is not an issue, I’d never cut a file anyway!”
c) “My OS is perfect, it doesn’t need a fuckin’ cut+paste…”
All very [...]

Now that’s a nice bashing post: Armin Rochaner criticizes one of the most protected OS of all times (even surpassing Linux, lately) and the ghetto attitude that is infecting “factions” of the developer’s world (most specifically RoR and it’s legions of cultists and new evangelists).
Religion sucks. Evangelism and religious attitudes at technology suck even more [...]

Safari 3.0 for Windows was launched some good 6 months ago, and was dubbed “the best browser for Windows ever”. By the time I was curious to give it a look, and I’ve got to say - it plain sucked. Apart from the very visible bugs and crashes, the performance was not that great and [...]

If you (like me) don’t like iTunes (or simply like the idea of having alternatives), Floola is probably one of the best option around. This small app allows you to playback and manage your tracks in a simple one-page interface. It also allows you to copy files from/to the iPod, so you can share [...]

Best iPhone ad ever. And it’s not even Apple’s…