Category Archives: Software Reviews

Reviews of software I’ve used, tried out, liked, or disliked.

§ 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 [...]

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§ My Notes on the Things Alpha

At one point I had signed up for the Things alpha, a very nice looking To Do list app. I made some notes regarding it, and I thought I’d throw them up here for the general benefit. As it stands I’m quite happy with my plain text To Do list solutions. Portable, flexible, and cross-compatible.

So! [...]

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§ 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 [...]

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§ Reconnaissance

In an attempt to keep this blog vaguely updated, I am going to try posting once every day this week.

First off, lines is updated again.

Second off, I’ve been getting accustomed to my Mac. I love it to pieces, but there’s always going to be things to get used to when using a new operating system, [...]

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§ Haml is beautiful

Haml is a templating engine of sorts for Ruby on Rails, but it’s also so much more than that. The documentation can tell you pretty much everything you need to know, but you have to see to believe. Let’s take a simple snippet of code from my 1st ed. Agile Web Development With Rails:

<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <% [...]

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