My Macinations

Yet another mac user’s blog

Interesting list The Cons of Switching from Windows to Mac. Ten Quick Ones. – The Neurotic Nomad.

Why I won’t be getting an iPhone on July 11th or anytime in the near future? Well, it’s simple. Blame Rogers. Being a webmaster, I would love to get an iPhone. The internet access that it provides gives me a lot of convenience with regards to checking the health status of my servers and other [...]

Microsoft has got the Mac community and the Mac press hoodwinked. Again! Yesterday, while announcing Office:mac 2008 SP1, Microsoft announced that they’re bringing back VBA functionality (Visual Basic Automation/Scripting) to the Mac version of their Office suite in its next major upgrade. Microsoft mentioned that they’re comfortable with an upgrade cycle of 3 – 3.5 [...]

One of the best features of Mac OS X is a feature called ‘Folder Actions’. What this feature allows the power user to do is to watch a folder on the computer and whenever that folder receives a file, folder action kicks in and runs a script of the user’s choosing. I’ve used this feature [...]

For all HTML/CSS geeks here is one of the most amazing things that I’ve seen done with CSS. It’s the face of Homer Simpson drawn completely with nothing but letters styled using CSS. If you click the animate buttons you can see how it’s been drawn. Check it out: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200805/css_homer_animated.html