Category Archives: Interesting Links

Posts about or containing links that I’ve found interesting in my internet surfing.

§ Feedsweep

Why Rails is total overkill and why I love Rack:

That’s why Rails is overkill: You can easily build web applications without the “magic”, and without the interdependencies and all the rest that comes with it.

This may be the case, but if it weren’t for Rails providing the exact methodology for programmers to use [...]

§ 39 Clippings, Part 1

For a decently long time I’ve been keeping track of newsfeed articles that catch me attention in the ‘Clippings’ folder of NetNewsWire. Since I’ve just finished with school and have a lot of free time, I’m going to go back and see why I saved those clippings originally, and write a little something about each [...]

§ Latitude Browser for Mac: On Its Way Officially.

Keep an eye on Latitude Browser; the idea is soon the cleanest, most beautiful web browser for the Mac will be released under its bannerhead.

For some context.

§ KDE 4.0.2: OS X Dashboard Widgets?

According to Aaron Seigo, KDE 4.0.2 has support for Dashboard Widgets from Mac OS X. Supposedly. He says:

In the Add Widgets dialog the Install New Widgets button is now a menu, letting you choose between downloading from the Internet using GetHotNewStuff and DXS (where what you are about to see is even more [...]

§ WideMail 0.5 Released

WideMail 0.5 has been released. WideMail is an extension to Mail.app that creates a Microsoft Outlook-type message viewer in the message pane, and allows for the message viewer to be placed on the far right of the application window, which is a more efficient layout for widescreen displays. This latest release adds much more comprehensive [...]