Image via Wikipedia To Be Or not To Be With Gusto :   an individual or special taste  enthusiastic and vigorous enjoyment or appreciation  vitality marked by an abundance of vigor and enthusiasm.  I find a few people that I follow have ” Gusto !”   Guy ...

Image via Wikipedia  of  Freeman Dyson Dave Winer my Vote for Futurist of the Year 2009 ! Dave Winer a man of good taste and exhibits Gusto! Gusto 1 a: an individual or special taste b: enthusiastic and vigorous enjoyment or appreciation c: vitality marked by an abundance of vigor and enthusiasm 2...

Like the rest of the Mac nerd world, I saw the announcement of SquirrelFish as very promising and inspiring news. The WebKit team has redesigned its JavaScript parser, emphasizing speed performance by switching from a parsed-tree system to a bytecode-interpreted system. The result is a much faster s...

Centrix.ca has released NetworkLocation 2.3, an update to their popular network automation utility for Mac OS X. NetworkLocation allows anyone to create user-defined actions based on their network location, and have them automatically performed when joining a network. Users may leverage their existi...

Microsoft made no attempt to hide the fact that they would be dropping support for VisualBasic scripting when they released their new office suite for the Mac. While this has caused some serious angst in corporate environments, the uproar was slightly muted due to the inclusion of pretty decent Appl...

MarsEdit has a little shortcoming that can cause a vexing situation from time to time. It takes what you type or paste into it a bit too literally. So if you flub up at the keyboard and make some wacky keystrokes, you might end up with a weird “invisible character” in your blog post. Wha...

And until I carefully reviewed what I could recall from the previous evening--who I might have talked to and even how I managed to misplace my underwear while still wearing my tux--I was profoundly afraid.I was fearful of a tech version of Plamegate because, Dear Reader, I was one of the only microp...

I've been horrible about releases, here's one that fixes iTunes' crap M3U handling. Here's the original blog entry I wrote about it. Basically, this will intercept M3Us and then create individual playlists for them instead of dumping the songs directly into your Library (where after playing the firs...

I received an email a little earlier asking what iEatBrainz applescript commands would allow you to add songs from an iTunes selection. iEatBrainz only has a applescript dictionary because it’s an Apple Script Studio app with a lot of Obj-C and just a small bit of applescript. However, since t...

QuickTime Broadcaster is Apple's scriptable live encoding software that lets users produce live events for online delivery. Sample scripts are available from Apple to demonstrate the use of a qualified Bluetooth cell phone and Sony Ericisson Clicker to remotely control Broadcaster. Version 1.0.1 pro...