I cant wait till february!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
I is going to see Fall Out Boy in concert!
I cant wait till february!
Friday, December 19, 2008
AMD, powered by Panic!
Tonight I completed the purchase of my new web development tools, both from Panic Inc. Apart from the Adobe CS4 tools Coda is my main web development app, as I have found nothing better! It has a brilliant text editor, awesome CSS interface (better than CSSEdit) and fantastic web preview, coupled with the built-in transmit engine making remote file changes easy. I have been using Coda since it came out around a year ago and it just keeps getting better and better!
My FTP app was originally the free Cyberduck but when it's not crashing its transfers were painfully slow so I tried Flow from Extendmac and Transmit from Panic. Flow has a real nice leopard interface but only once in 50 tries was it able to connect to my server. Trasmit is quick, simple and feature packed, plus it actually works with my server! It's rock solid, never crashes and transfer havent failed yet and they are soo fast.
So both of my web development tools come from an independant mac developer, Panic Inc, hopefully more people will stop using the crap that has been coming from companies like Adobe and support the smaller two man teams. The software is better, support is more personal and you put food on the table, what could be better? The guys at Panic are really cool and they make amazing software!
Coda costs $99 here and Transmit costs $29.95 here.
Official Alex Mills Design Wallpaper!

The music for my 18th party soon will come from my Mac so I thought I would do some advertising by first make the biggest AMD Logo ever and turn it into a wallpaper :) 1440 x 900 to be precise. Check it out, its pretty simple but I think it's pretty sweet :)
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Check out my Desktop!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Camino 2.0 Alpha 1
Tab Overview: When you have more than one tab open, the tab overview option spreads them out onto a light table with a screenshot and the page title, allowing you to review and select which one you want. Expose for tabs :)
Recently Closed: Just like Firefox, when you close a tab it appears in the 'recently closed' menu under History though clicking an item opens it in the currently active tab instead of a new one. This should be an option.
Keyboard Support: The keyboard support has been rewritten to squash any previous bugs and provide keyboard access to the find bar, tab bar and pop-up blocker.
Gecko 1.9: Camino 2.0 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Rendering Engine which uses a new graphics architecture based on Quartz which results in better performance, compatibility and flash support. I didn't think it was possible but 2.0 is actually quicker than 1.x, a trend which is reversed in Firefox.
As with any Alpha it has it's problems and it's almost guaranteed to crashed. Camino is a unique browser with some nifty features (Page ad-blocking), please test and submit any bugs that you find. If you have any feature request be sure to contact them. If you feel you can help out with with development head here.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
iTunes does it again!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
MobileMe Status update: It still sucks!
"A product they would be proud of by christmas" they said, well its that month of the year and yet the MobileMe web interface still sucks majorly. Browsing the inbox, reading a message, composing a message, changing settings, editing the address book or adding photos to a gallery is a scary job because at any point the browser will just refresh, taking you back to the main mail screen. Not saving your settings or even the message you were working on, its just gone for you to start all over agin. I paid money for this service from one of the most creditable companies in the world and yet they deliver a product that makes Hotmail or Live Mail look impressive. Apart from messages not showing up in sent items (or not being sent at all) I have not been able to add photos to my web galleries from iPhoto, forcing me to use the web interface.
I have the setup the Apple developers dream of, an high spec mac portable, latest OS and version of Safari. MobileMe should work like a dream, like every other product they have released to date. From day one this service has not got any better.
I have the setup the Apple developers dream of, an high spec mac portable, latest OS and version of Safari. MobileMe should work like a dream, like every other product they have released to date. From day one this service has not got any better.
Monday, December 1, 2008
8 years of outback living are coming to an end!

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