He’s Just Had Coffee

If, like me, your computer’s hard drive has slowly filled and you’re not entirely certain where all those gigabytes went, might I cautiously recommend (for Mac OS users) GrandPerspective. It visualizes all the files on your hard drive as rectangles packed roughly intuitively. I’ve used other tools, but this one makes it trivial to locate […]

A few days ago I started using Firefox 2.0 on my Mac. I switched to Firefox from Safari a few weeks ago and managed to find a skin I kinda liked and an extension that gave me window-close buttons on each tab (rather than the error-prone single window-close button at the end of the tab […]

So, why on earth is “Address Format” a global preference instead of something I can set for each card? How cool would it be if I could add feeds for each person in my address book. For that matter if I could add FOAF IDs… and the relationships actually linked to other cards and I could use […]

If you’re like me and you run your hard drive on your Mac close to capacity a lot, and you’ve been getting really slow response with a lot of disk thrashing - then ignore all those people who say the HFS+ filesystem never needs to be defragged. Make a bootable backup of your hard drive using […]

A while ago I switched from using Newsfire as my feed reader to Bloglines, then from that to NetNewsWire - I can’t recall why… boredom maybe? Yesterday I switched back to Newsfire which, while it’s always been the prettiest reader on Mac OS, is now prettier. I’m happy as a… clam. Technorati Tags: apple, osx

“Using your Mac’s sudden motion sensor, MacSaber turns your laptop into a Jedi weapon” Technorati Tags: apple, osx

Tom Coates posts a lengthy meditation on Paul Graham’s talk about environmental conditions for technology start-ups (transcript by Suw Charman) which led to a long thread of comments by clever people like Julian Bond and Cory Doctorow. I chipped in something, perhaps not as clever, too. Technorati Tags: enterprise, entrepreneur, research

The nature of our ‘Mel is irrepressible. In Subtle Broadcasting via Obsessive-compulsive Tagging (OCT) he lays out a manifesto of why he tags: Tagging is a compassionate way to share our insights, discoveries, our philosophy, our context, WITHOUT pushing it down at someone else’s throat. We simply tag them, let them go, let them […]

Andrew Hunt, co-founder of The Pragmatic Programmers on emergence in software design (courtesy of 37 Signals): Emergence is one of the founding principles of agility, and is the closest one to pure magic. Emergent properties aren’t designed or built in, they simply happen as a dynamic result of the rest of the […]