October 30th, 2009
Actually BBEdit is still fast. More than 10 years ago (July 1997), On ATPM’s “Review :BBEdit 4.0.4″:
This review really wouldn’t be complete without mentioning BBEdit’s
incredible speed. While many of our readers might not consider speed to
be a noteworthy trait for a text editor, I could easily find programs
that deal with text in a drudgingly slow manner (Microsoft Word 6.0
comes to mind). BBEdit’s speed is apparent in every task it achieves,
from scrolling, to searching and replacing, to formatting HTML to
executing macros, BBEdit is the fastest text editor on the face of the
planet, and without question the fastest HTML editor in the universe.
Even today, open a 200mb plain text file in both BBEdit and TextMate, scroll up and down, you’ll see what I mean.
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October 20th, 2009
The Magic Mouse is the new mighty mouse.
- Multi-Touch Surface
- Bluetooth Wireless
- No more 360° sticky ball
Just released by Apple today.
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October 13th, 2009
I use Taverna workbench a lot in a project I’m doing right now. After upgraded to Snow Leopard which does not provide Rosette by default anymore, I found that “dot”, the program shipped with Taverna 2.1 Beta 2 used for drawing workflows, was not Universial Binary yet.
No need to say I want to use Taverna, but I don’t want to use install Rosette. Since dot is part of Graphviz, we need to install a Universal Binary version of graphviz.
The first way is build it by yourself. It can be hard, but if you use macports that would be easy. This will be great and convenient if you build every unix program with macports, otherwise you’ll get a lot more than what you need. For me, 400+ Mb of libraries and programs installed by macports.
The other way is using Graphviz compiled by Glen Low or by Ryan Schmidt. These two packages will install Graphviz and necessary libraries to the system. Glens’ has a higher version (2.20.3), but either of above should works fine for you.
After installed Graphviz, we can assign a dot location in Taverna’s preferences.
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September 29th, 2009
NYT:
One obvious candidate would be Michael Tchao, one of the original
developers of Apple’s groundbreaking but failed Newton personal digital
assistant.
Newton was killed not failed.
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September 14th, 2009
Acorn upgraded to 2.0 and got 64 bits support right now. Some
hi-lights:
- You’ve now got a new preference to have every window on its own
layer when making a screenshot.
- Render Clouds has long been a staple
in the designer’s toolbox, a great starting place for textures.
Neat. And you can use it for free after 14 days trial. (Some
features disabled, of course.)
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August 30th, 2009
在切換輸入法（cmd + space）的時候長按 cmd 系統會提供給你目前可用的輸入法/鍵盤。
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August 28th, 2009
Numbers failed to open a 3MB text file – too large? Have to use MS Excel in this case. :-/
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