Optical Alchemy has a wicked keen iTunes visualizer— Jewelcase, which displays a 3D rendered spinning jewelbox of whatever album your currently playing song is from, complete with tracks listing and cover art. Of course, it uses your cover art in iTunes, so it works best if you’ve loaded in all your cover art (or got it with your AAC files from the iTMS).
All about fonts for captions and subtitles: Watching TV is bad enough. Reading TV shouldn’t be worse.
I’ve tested a few spam filters for my email over the last year, including the built-in one in Apple Mail, SpamFire and SpamSieve, and decided on the latter of the three as my final solution. SpamSieve does a great job, using Bayesian filtering to detect the probability of a message being spam, and it integrates well with Apple Mail, as well as several other email clients.
The programmer, Michael Tsai, was interviewed in Daring Fireball a while back, which is mighty interesting, and he also wrote the eminently useful DropDMG.
The world’s smallest Pac-Man game.
I work from home today… it seems now is the time strange women with their children gather outside the den window of my apartment to await a bus… that doesn’t seem to actually stop here.
Afternoon kindergarten, I would wager, but two school busses drive past them on the inner drive of the complex without stopping.
Still they linger, outside my window. Now more have joined the pack. Ravenous wolves, awaiting their golden yellow feast.
Another bus now, in the opposite direction. They alight. The crowd beneath my window disperses as the young pups clamber to their seats, and the driver pushes on into the gloom.
Is this, or is this not, the lamest promotional item evar? When I picked up the DVD at Costco for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (for educational purposes, mind you), it said, “Free Sky Captain Playing Cards Inside!” When I opened the long box, I saw the card in the image on top […]
I’ve finally made an update to my sorely out-of-date DVD collection page, now with additions for music (mostly there), books (a long way to go) and games (console’s there, but nothing for Mac games yet). I’ve used DeliciousExporter to export out of my collection thus far that’s been entered into Delicious Library, a […]
