Category Archives: Software

Safari Regression

Posted on February 10, 2004 by joachim

I was pleased to see Apple release a new version of Safari, but was a bit disappointed when I discovered a regression (I assume) in the DOM area. I have a little test document where I can move table rows … Continue reading →

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Look-alike contest

Posted on December 14, 2003 by joachim

In the beginning there were a lot of different web browsers for Mac OS X. In fact, there were 6 or 7 browsers using 5 different rendering engines. Then, in january 2003 came Apple’s Safari Browser. Up to now, 2 … Continue reading →

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Microsoft QA

Posted on December 7, 2003 by joachim

Two weeks ago, I installed Windows 2000 on my iBook using Virtual PC. Everything went fine until I wanted to use Windows update. There were plenty of updates ready to install when a dialog with the license agreement appeared and … Continue reading →

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Mono on OS X?

Posted on December 5, 2003 by joachim

Why did I install DotGNU instead of Mono? Well, I took a quick glimpse at the Mono project website and didn’t find any information of Mono running on Mac OS X. But it turned out it does run on OS … Continue reading →

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DotGNU

Posted on December 4, 2003 by joachim

Some days ago I installed DotGNU on my PowerMac G4. There was no binary installer, but all the packages complied without any problems! DotGNU is a free implementation of Microsoft’s .NET framework. It’s not complete yet, but some of the … Continue reading →

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How to crash Safari 1.1.1

Posted on December 4, 2003 by joachim

You can make Safari 1.1.1 crash by doing the following: Open texturizer.net/firebird Scroll down and click on ‘Classic’ That’s it. I hope this bug will be fixed soon.

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PowerToys for Windows

Posted on October 4, 2003 by joachim

Ben blogs about a way to bring Exposé functionality to Windows XP. Using the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP, you can have an adequate replacement for Exposé. I would like to have some more information about that, since there where … Continue reading →

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Customer driven development

Posted on September 28, 2003 by joachim

As Huebi stated on his weblog that he wanted to install ImageAlbum, I thought I might release an updated version of it with easier application setup and some bigfixes. I hope I will have the release ready in a few … Continue reading →

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Beaver

Posted on September 2, 2003 by joachim

While surfing the web before getting really starting with work this morning, I discovered the existance of a promising RSS aggregation tool running on Windows called Beaver. While it can’t beat NetNewsWire for Mac OS X by any means, it … Continue reading →

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dasBlog

Posted on August 25, 2003 by joachim

I am wondering about the trackback functionality of this weblog system. I know that you can ping other URLs using dasBlog. But can I ping an URL of a dasBlog entry? I guess no although MT said the pings were … Continue reading →

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