The nice thing about console platforms is that they tend to get better with age, at least from a hacker’s perspective. Discount prices, reverse engineered hardware, a mature development community, and still-available components make the slightly-aged console an armchair game programmer’s best friend. Before you retire your GameCube to the basement closet, take a stab […]
One of the cool things about Vista is its ability to resize partitions using diskmgmt.msc. This works great for those times when you need to shrink or grow a partition. Unfortunately, if you need to move things around as I did this weekend, you won’t be able to use the built-in tool. I needed to […]
A lot of progress has been made toward porting the GTK+ library to OS X, and recently intructions went up on how to build Gimp for native OS X operation. That’s right, without X11 getting in your way. It’s still not ready for prime time, but I’m really excited about where it’s going. If you’re […]
One thing that discourages people from using a bicycle as their primary mode of transportation is that it’s a little undesireable to show up to school or work sweaty. In hilly cities, riders are forced to heavily exert themselves during a typical commute, pretty much guaranteeing perspiration and discouraging bicycle use. Jarle Wanvik, an avid […]
If you’ve ever forgotten to set your camera’s clock or adjust the time for daylight savings time, you probably know what a nuisance it is to manually correct your photo’s timestamps. Joe Maller addressed this problem by writing a few AppleScripts that allow you to shift and reset dates and times for album photos in […]
Click To Play A couple months ago, I mentioned the new (Mac-only) Skitch screen-capture and annotation app from Plasq. At the time, I wasn’t able to register for their mailing list (the captcha issue is fixed now, so do head over to sign up), but I just got a sneak peak at the private beta, […]
The Ubuntu Blog shows off one of the neat tricks that KWord has up its sleeve. You can use it to import PDFs, and they retain a lot of their formatting. Once you’ve got it into KWord, you can work with it there, or export it into your favorite word processor’s format. I imported the […]
