Today, I sold my old Powerbook G4 to someone else, bringing to the end my first Mac laptop in the modern (post Jobs’ return to Apple) era. This Mac was where I learned to program PHP and run MYSQL queries, where I first blogged and built my first production level website - www.nybap.org. It lasted […]

I recently upgraded to Mac OS X Tiger and have been enjoying the functionality of Dashboard. I like to think of Dashboard as part information swiss army knife and part virtual library. I have the EggTimer widget which I set when baking my dinner because my oven has no self-timer. I also have various dictionary […]

I was first drawn to open source by the promise of free software. Blogs I read and respected would suggest a GPL’d app which I would download, use and not think twice about as long they worked. Open source apps were like any other piece of software - the only difference was they didn’t cost […]