While working on a new site today, I was reminded of just how great the Firebug extension for Firefox really is. I used Firebug heavily about 6 months ago for a Ruby on Rails application. I used it mostly for monitoring and debugging my AJAX calls. Firebug has come a long way [...]
Archive | December, 2006
New Browser Stats
Starry Hope Readers Are Smart
One of the smartest things you can do to protect yourself online these days is to simply not use Internet Explorer. The thing is so full of holes that using it is just asking for trouble. The December 17, 2006 stats release from W3 Counter shows world-wide usage of [...]
Parallels vs CrossOver Prizefight
The past few days have been full of announcements in the area of running Windows applications on your Intel Mac. First, Parallels released a new beta version of their virtual machine, then VMware released a public beta of their virtual machine. Today, CodeWeavers made release candidate 1 of CrossOver Mac, their Windows compatibility [...]
Parallels Screencast
Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Beta2 (Build 3094) was released today. Here’s a screencast that shows off some of my favorite features.
Place Windows applications on your Mac desktop or in your application dock. Just click to launch them directly from OS X!
Use Command+tab to cycle through Windows and Mac applications simultaneously, and hide [...]
10 Great OS X Application Icons
The latest generation of Mac applications have really focused on the way an application looks. Developers are creating beautiful user interfaces and slick looking icons that make their apps more pleasing to look at. I appreciate the time and energy that people have put into making their apps look great.
Here’s a [...]
