Thanks to the wide availability of Firefox addons, I can customize my browser however I want. One such addon is for instant messaging, and can be found at http://sameplace.cc. It is a sidebar addon to Firefox that is very convenient. Some services that SamePlace supports include:
After testing out the Magic Mouse, I must revise what I said before. The Magic Mouse is like any regular mouse gone through Apple’s minimalism factory. It works as well as any other mouse, and there are actually buttons. In fact, the mouse is just one button. This would invalidate my comment about how there are no buttons. The …
When I first looked at that, I thought the thing was a base for one of the new MacBooks. It turns out that it’s a mouse or an iPhone casing. Here’s how Apple puts it: It began with iPhone. Then came iPod touch. Then MacBook Pro. Intuitive, smart, dynamic. Multi-Touch technology introduced a remarkably better way to interact with your …
Stellarium is a great planetarium program available at stellarium.org. In fact, it’s such a good planetarium program that it could be used with planetarium projectors. Of course, planetarium projectors have to get an image onto a dome, but Stellarium has a built-in projection method for doing that. Like the different methods to draw a map, Stellarium has a variety of …
I’ve been looking for a music notation program forever that’s free, powerful, and isn’t a demo, and I finally found it. I got the MuseScore application through a newsletter from Mac OS X freeware. It’s quite a big program though, but 100 megabytes later, I finally got to open the application for the first time. At first glance, it was …