Because it is Mac OS X …
Seriously, I swore an oath when I bought my powerbook that I wouldn’t become a Mac vs Windows type but some of this list is just gigglesome
Check out the Kernel, Audio, Direct X 10, New Built in Apps and Aero Glass sections.
Now tell me I’m wrong?
PS. You want the [...]
Archive > February 2006
Why Windows Vista doesn’t suck
Smoosh
N. A collection of thoughts squished together into a single post as the passing of time has produced too many to create separate posts.
Been a busy couple of days with 3 projects in full swing, a load of fun stuff on the go and general weekend madness to contend with:
Work going as well as can [...]
My personal DNA
One of those personality thingies that, despite my best efforts to be truthful, gets me completely wrong.
What’s interesting about this one is the method of entering your information. Uses some novel collection mechanisms to make a pretty dull quiz a bit more interesting.
With a beep and a boop and a blip blip filb
It’s been a while since I last saw a “turn your computer’s day to day stats into music / noise” program. Indeed the last one was more than a little flaky and ran on Windows 95 …
Sound of Traffic is a funky little app that records the traffic on each port on your network card [...]
Amazon 2006 Comp – part one is over
Markiss has started his year’s worth of competitions and the first round (a return of Stair Dismount) has just finished.
I came 4th out of 7 players so not too bad considering. I’ll need to pick up the pace though if I’m going to be in with a chance of winning!
Oh and I didn’t submit my [...]
Wedding Invite
My eldest cousin is getting married in May. It’s been in planning for almost 2 years but the official invites arrived a couple of days ago. Never normally one for all the chintz that goes with this kind of occasion I think this is a lovely invite.
Free stuff
Listable.com has a new list (funny that) of loads of open source / freeware apps for Windows.
Some of them will be well known but there are a couple of gems lurking in there and the list is still growing so it’s one to keep an eye on.
2.5 New Games
I’ve been taking some time to try and find more games which I can play on the Mac. Having found a couple of really great ones (that happen to be cross platform!) I thought I’d share:
Pogosticker
From the mind that brought you stair dismount comes this fantastically addictive (and incredibly difficult) action puzzler. You simply use [...]
Work your hours day
Not as relevent to me now as it was but back in the days of MegaComp unpaid overtime used to be a regular occurance:
The TUC has launched a website designed to tackle the UK’s unpaid overtime culture. It says that over five million people in the UK are contributing £23bn in free time to their [...]
