Musings

Engadget has an article on how to turn XP into a Mac OS X lookalike. I like the dropshadow effect on the OSX windows, so I added YzShadow (it seems like it’s difficult to download this, a little googling brings you to a danish page that has all the Yz utilities). So fine, I have dropshadows. What I really miss though is a desktop extender (virtual desktops) like the Mac has. I think I have tried all those that are availble on Windows, and not a single one of them even comes close to the one you can get for the Mac. ...

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Why you should use paper to protoype a web site: Prototyping tips

try this cute game and watch the relativity[1] of time become a reality… [1] Time passes much quicker when you are engaged in the game

The last weeks must have been a frenzy for Dean and Jason over at TextDrive. They managed to get 200 people to sign up for a hosting package that enabled them to start a company. I have bought into it, and have so far received tremendous good support from Jason and Dean. Even special DNS configurations whishes were executed in “near-real-time”. Sending an email to Jason (who does the sys admin thing) resulted in modified DNS record in less than 10 minutes. Impressive! ...

Back in the old days[1], I worked at a company that imported Mac Emulators for the Atari ST and sold them. We had all kind of fun stuff to deal with, the most notorious being to find old Mac ROMs for the emulators. Anyway - today, it’s easier: Use the Web Based Mac SE without a ROM … [1] and with old, I mean OLD – I just tried to find references on the web to the company, but it’s difficult… The company was called Trillian, and googling for Trillian is a bad idea (if you’re looking for that specific old, Atari ST distribution company. Searching for Marvin (which was one of the related companies yields a bit better results, and if you actually happen to know the name of some of the products that Marvin developed and Trillian distributed you will find one or two references ;-) ...