Tag Archives: Work

Digital Color Meter OS X.7 Lion [sucks]

For what it’s worth, Apple have stripped back DCM utility in their new OS. WTF!? I used that all the time, now I can’t copy colour, hold colour or pick in HEX?! A chap called Matt Patenaude has made a … Continue reading

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Xcode now free

Xcode development platform for Mac and iOS was originally free, which came with the OS X install disc. Then, a couple of months back when the AppStore was released by Apple, they started charging for it, which struck a few … Continue reading

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Android in-app Adverts

A game I paid for and played on the iPhone “Cut the Rope” was a fun game of trying to help a monster eat candy. Simple game, but highly addictive. It has just been released on Android, for free – … Continue reading

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Advertising in OS’s

Would you or better yet, could you use an operating system that has adverts? Google are working on their web-based OS which would probably have the usual targeted adverts based on either surrounding content or user profile data.

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Safari 5.1 (Lion)

Understandably, the latest version of Safari is awesome, but bug ridden. It’s still an unreleased version with the upcoming OS Lion. There are a few issues.

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Rent Photoshop from Adobe for $49/month

Adobe are now offering a solution for students/freelancers which sounds viable. Instead of shelling out the $US900 or whatever to keep, you can just borrow the software for a while. This scheme seems to be targeting the inbetweener developer/designer who … Continue reading

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OS X.7 Lion (beta)

Firstly, I’ve been lucky enough to try out the latest build of OS X Lion developer preview for testing. Installation was simple enough, more so than regular OS X installs. Normally, you insert the disc and either execute the install … Continue reading

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Speed up your page serving with ‘mod_pagespeed’

Google announced (a while ago) a module to Apache 2.2, ‘mod_pagespeed’ will automatically optimise webpages, serving up content faster to your consumers. mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them. It does this … Continue reading

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Inconsideration

This is one of my pet peeves.

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Stupid Flash MysteryMeat

I work in the web industry for a reason. Because I can’t stand stupid websites which confuse the crap out of crapheap. Especially when they’re Flash websites which load and load and load without any sort of cancel function. “Sound … Continue reading

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