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You may have noticed that my last 3 posts were about free software.
I like free stuff. Everyone likes free stuff. Why talk about free stuff?
A friend told me that the reason he enjoys using Open Source (and usually free) apps is he can customise them. He finds it frustrating that when you pay $1K per seat for an application like Mercury (now owned by HP) that sometimes it just wont do what you need. You either work with the (often times) limited and expensive tool, or you extend the functions using your own coding and software.
You can keep up with 90kts and his Open Source load testing efforts on his blog.
Everyone likes free stuff.
March 2, 2008 at 2:34 · Filed under Musings
Disco is one of the smartest looking and basic (yet powerful) CD/DVD burning solutions for your Mac. Yesterday it was updated with a maintenance release to V1.0.3, which includes quite a number of fixes for crashing that may have occurred. It has been almost 1 year since the last update so this is welcomed.
Incidentally, the developer is offering this software for USD$19.95 (and there is a very good USD->AUD exchange rate) for a limited time.
Disco has the following features:
- Disc spanning - if the total size of the files you’re burning is bigger than the disc, it tries to divide them amongst multiple discs
- Discography - it catalogues all the discs you have burnt for quick searching
- Multi-session
- And a pledge to support Blu-ray as soon as it is available on Macs
I’m not affiliated, just a happy Disco user (Thanks Mac-Heist!)
December 17, 2007 at 19:31 · Filed under Musings
A number of weeks ago I gave up caffeine, and was pretty OK with that. But, I have come to the conclusion that there is a direct correlation with Caffeine and all other things tech, including tech blogging.
As you may have noticed if you subscribed to my feed, or read this site, my posts have been minimal.
Yet after having caffeine on the weekend in an energy drink, and subsequently picking up where I left of with decent illy coffee, I have had the urge to blog again. Nothing tech yet - but here I am.
I’m back baby!
November 18, 2007 at 23:18 · Filed under Musings
With the 10.4.11 upgrade came Safari V3. It looks neat, but I started having issues with closing Windows. It turns out the SIMBL input manager that I was using on Safari was conflicting with it. By deleting ~/Library/InputManagers/SIMBL it fixed the issue.
On the same theme, here has been a lot of talk lately about Input Managers and whether they will be completely removed in Leopard. Just recently David Watanabe blogged about the uncertain future of Inquisitor.
It would be a shame for such an awesome Safari extension to become extinct, but thankfully Input Managers are not the only way to skin this cat.
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November 13, 2007 at 20:32 · Filed under Musings
Did you ever have too many RSS feeds you are subscribed to?
Wasting your time posting updates to Flickr, Twitter, facebook, and so on?
This guy thinks he has the answers. Cut out the IM and stop reading your email so often. Me? I just removed 70% of my news feeds in my reader, turned my phone off, and I’m going to bed to read a book (and get away from this blog for now).
As for four hours a week working? I don’t think I can scale back to that yet - but it would be nice.
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