"Apple released iLife for Macintosh in January 2003. Every year or so, the suite gets better, with no Windows developer offering anything comparable. Isn’t it about time?" "By controlling the dominant digital media content creation stack, Macs are hugely popular among important influencers."

Amazingly, there is no graphical user interface to enable Windows Vista to connect to a VPN when either the client or server is behind a NAT, and it doesn't adjust automatically either. No, you need to edit a bloody registry setting. No wonder Cisco make good money on VPNs.

Official word on Chrome. "We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries." - localisation? "Google Chrome is far from done. We're releasing this beta for Windows" ... "hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too".

Wil Shipley on why the latest Windows marketing campaign is bogus: "Microsoft has managed to prove that ... on a controlled machine ... showing a carefully selected subset of Vista features ... the XP user will often say he finds Vista acceptable."

It's nice to know other people share my bugbears, even after all this time of Windows incomers diluting the Mac-ishness of the UI. I wish he'd expanded his point about Safari (which I still use without tabs on the Mac, damnit).

Slightly nuts Ubuntu Linux installer that lets you put a Linux disk image on a hard disk (no partitioning) then uses magic bootloader invocations to start up. What's next, a freeware Q VM?

You have to wonder what's going on when Microsoft ship a Flickr upload plugin as part of their photo management software for free. (Compare that to Apple. Hm.) Interesting Popfly partner list too.

Looks like it is possible to get the Web Inspector, but only by installing a nightly webkit build. Probably because it's not all there yet (on Windows anyway).

I was trying to do this but was editing Defaults.plist not Preferences.plist. Now, how do you get the Web Inspector working?

It's time for me to move up from Firefox 1.5, I think. Cloning a profile so I can return to it if I don't like 2.0 (or the Gran Paradiso alphas) seems like a good idea.

"Michael Dell, the founder, chairman and chief executive of Dell, is himself an Ubuntu user." Could be interesting; depends how well hidden the Linux option is.

"The RealTimeIsUniversal flag is there ... but its implementation seems now incomplete ... therefore using it is not recommended at this time"

Registry setting for a UTC BIOS in Windows: 'set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\, set "RealTimeIsUniversal" to a DWORD value of 1'

Ah, so this is where all that gdb linkage sprung from. Interesting, anyway.

Gruber's fighting talk after a comment about Mac vs Windows security in a Vista release interview, "It’s either an angry, slanderous lie, or Bill Gates is an uninformed jackass". More good stuff further therein.

An attempt to build a Cocoa stack for Windows. Open source. Could be very cool if it starts supporting enough.

Microsoft are definitely copying Apple: "[Backup] is one of the worst utilities you'll ever use--although it's such a poor piece of work, it's likely you won't bother to use it."

Ars Technica covers, er, DJ software. For Mac OS X. And Windows. Like it says up there.

Quicksilver-a-like for Windows? via the discussion on Giles' post about 10.4.8's zooming feature.

"lets you use a USB 2.0-based flash memory device to speed up the performance of virtually any Vista PC" I remember using a CF card + PCMCIA adaptor as virtual memory for old PowerBooks. Worked well enough, and most had two slots (so wireless as well)

I tried this, and also found it (very) wanting. Still, an interesting idea, and hopefully it'll get a bit mature.

A few years old now, but interesting nonetheless. Is it just me that thinks Zookeeper sounds like the Spotlight metadata store?

I think he has a point (well, both are kind of valid), but we'll see how it shakes out

Cross platform terminal emulator. Has a link to Cygwin install instructions that I might find useful

OpenOSX always struck me as dodgy repackagers, and this is neither sexy (virtualisation) or clever (proper EFI booting) but boring (emulation)

Despite the CNet report from boingboing mentioning eEye, their page doesn't mention iTunes

Managing to take something that looks like a standard buffer overflow in the browser side and link it to DRM and rootkits? Typical Cory paranoid bat raving

Don't worry about trusted computing: worry about why it's being invited into products, and by who

Looks like a nice enough app, but do people really want Windows help file readers?

Scarily, it works. Unsurprisingly, it's pretty slow.

Unlike Spike, has a Linux version. Sadly, unlike Spike, doesn't use Rendezvous

Illustrator-esque free stuff

New boy at the message centre

Current departure boards for the Bakerloo line, London

Has SubEthaEdit style stuff in. Wonder if it's as easy to use, though?

Nice, but way too greedy to actually use. Make 'copy to shared" clipboard optional, and you're on

Running scared of open source and ADC, or just being a bit open?