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The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest
Peer review for 2007 prizes now open. (Recall that George Hotelling's project, CitizenSpeak, won this prize last year, and that the Grass Commons' WagN project was a nominee.)
open  software  public  interest  computing  prize  peer-review  2007 
october 2007 by bkerr
Spanning Sync Blog | Spanning Sync v1.0 Now Available
Out of beta, $25 annual or $65 one-time fee -- oops. Ed sez: "pricing feedback in the comments is overwhelmingly negative."
mac  google  ical  calendar-swamp  invisible  software  pricing  via:vielmetti 
march 2007 by bkerr
dive into mark | gNewSense first impressions
Mark Pilgrim tests out / argues for approaching gNewSense distro as a reference implementation of plain old gnu/linux.
gnewsense  linux  software  freedom0  reference 
november 2006 by bkerr
Best Practical
"The best ideas, worst ideas and idle musings of Jesse, CL and the rest of the gang at Best Practical Solutions."
open  software  issue  tracker  task  manager  weblogs 
october 2006 by bkerr
The Universe of Discourse | Design patterns of 1972
"Patterns are signs of weakness in programming languages. When we identify and document one, that should not be the end of the story. Rather, we should ... understand how to improve the language so that the pattern becomes invisible or unnecessary."
software  design  pattern  language  process 
september 2006 by bkerr
MacLibre | Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X
OS X analogue to WinLibre, e.g. easy distribution method for a set of open source apps.
mac  freedom0  free  open  software  via:revgeorge 
september 2006 by bkerr
Jonathan D. Nolen | The Open Company Test
It took one and a half years for this post and I to find one another.
biz  planning  freedom0  software  networks  etc  manifesto 
august 2006 by bkerr
The Geek Gene, LLC
Arthur Brock's company in CO.
web  software  design  currency 
july 2006 by bkerr
Xcode's Plugin Interface
Weird unsupported plugin method for Xcode.
mac  software  development  via:rentzsch 
june 2006 by bkerr
The Blue Technologies Group | Stapler
Weird notebook / micro-outline / task list app. Seems like a good interface for extremely lightweight tech support stuff?
mac  text  software  outlining 
june 2006 by bkerr
poedit
"A cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor ... It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs than launching vi and editing the file by hand."
software  development  language  translation 
may 2006 by bkerr
The Seattle Public Library: Digital Book Collections (Safari Tech Books Online)
Seattle Public Library -- like the U-M University Library -- provides O'Reilly Safari to its patrons.
library  o'reilly  safari  software  development 
may 2006 by bkerr
bbum’s weblog-o-mat | Sandvox “hidden” feature.
Lame OS X app behavior: silently install Smart Crash Reporter input manager. I'm all for SCR, but it's also about the spirit of the thing.
lame  mac  software  debugging  ideas/bad 
january 2006 by bkerr
the Lemacs/FSFmacs schism
Nothing quite as compelling as gory, biased history of open-source projects...
free  software  history  freedom0  past  emacs 
december 2005 by bkerr
New York Times | Mac Programs That Come With Thinking Caps On
Lame article, cursory review of DevonThink and a handful of outliners. End of article links to ATPM, which has an outlining series which reads as if its authors actually used the software.
mac  outlining  search  retrieval  software 
december 2005 by bkerr
Peter Maurer | Textpander
System-wide text auto-completion preferences for OS X. I've been using it for some time with no trouble.
mac  text  ui  productivity  software 
october 2005 by bkerr
Many-to-Many | Tags run amok!
Definition: social software is stuff that gets spammed.
del.icio.us  social  software  spam  classification  funny  via:revgeorge 
october 2005 by bkerr
open sword | pixen 3 beta
I missed this -- new version of everybody's favorite pixel editor was released in July.
mac  pixel  images  software 
october 2005 by bkerr
bynkii.com's General Computing | The MacBU at the crossroads
(Highly contested) truth-telling about the future of Microsoft Office on the Mac. (I just learned to use TeX and am already seeing return on my investment.)
apple  mac  microsoft  office  software 
october 2005 by bkerr
PsyncX - Mac OS X Backup Utility
Another thing people keep asking me about (esp. handy since Tiger's built-in rsync has some issues with extended attributes and date stamps, the mothership could use some QA dammit).
mac  backup  software 
october 2005 by bkerr
e2Sync
Bringing iSync to Entourage. I've actually never used iSync for anything, but people are always asking me about this...
mac  microsoft  software 
october 2005 by bkerr
EULAlyzer
Windows software, scans a EULA for questionable contents.
windows  software  funny  via:revgeorge 
october 2005 by bkerr
PBS | I, Cringely . September 29, 2005 - Acts of Omission
"It is fascinating that the current Linux-Windows battle is between forces that can both trace their lineage back to the same copyright act."
software  copyright  windows  linux  media  politics 
september 2005 by bkerr
scottberkun.com | How to build a better browser
To provide a little context, Berkun was one of the designers of IE 1.0 through 5.x; as a consequence, when he recently blogged his switch to Firefox, it got some attention.
web  browser  software  design  firefox  ui  si682 
september 2005 by bkerr
JSAN
"JavaScript Archive Network is a comprehensive resource for Open Source JavaScript libraries and software."
web  software 
july 2005 by bkerr
Rixstep | AppleCore Project
ACP Services in particular are pretty great.
mac  software  ui  future 
june 2005 by bkerr
OpenUsability
What makes this different from Ronco Spray-On Usability?
via:revgeorge  software  design  ui 
may 2005 by bkerr
The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference
"ADOHC Is a great place to find out about programming techniques and other topics of interest to developers. Here's a collection papers from some of our past shows." (2001-2004; now called MacHack.)
mac  software  ideas 
february 2005 by bkerr
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