I’ve only found two comic book viewers — apps that will display compressed, scanned comic books — for OSX:
Jomic is large, slow, and Java-based [which you should have guessed from the prior description]. It doesn’t support gradiated image zoom (that I could find), so you can only view images at either full-size or fit-to-window, which is bad when you’re trying to read comic books on a smaller laptop screen.
It warms my technophilic heart to see this Mac mini leeched to the back of a large plasma screen, quietly injecting Apple-ness into the display.
To further my World of Warcraft fandom:
The Kill on Sight mod gives particularly hated enemies a red “dragon” identifier above their name icon, so as to help you remember them if you happen to run across them again.
This is pretty handy for me, although none of my characters are really to the point of being able to handle any type of PvP encounter.
I’m revoking my previous statement about how wonderful and cool NewsFire is.
As it turns out, NewsFire’s developer, Dave Watanabe, has decided to start charging $20 for it. My problems with this are many:
- NewsFire really isn’t worth $20. It’s an RSS reader. My toilet has an RSS reader, these days. It might be worth $5.
- There was never any indication that NewsFire was going to be shareware. There was just a prompt to upgrade, and a minor mention of a “registration” system in the release notes.
- There’s no real improvement over the existing, working 0.62 version.
- NetNewsWire Lite does the same thing, and is free. I’m not sure which drugs Mr. Watanabe is on. Gone are the days where a developer can give a marginally-better-than-the-competition application away for free, then arbitrarily decide to start charging for the next version. Particularly when Tiger’s version of Safari will support RSS feeds natively within a few months.
Because I always forget, and end up having to scour Google:
Standard Break Key Sequence Combinations During Password Recovery for Cisco Routers.
The most important bit here, for me, is “How to Simulate a Break Key Sequence”:
This is useful if your terminal emulator doesn’t support the break key, or if a bug prevents it from sending the correct signal (the hyperterminal under Windows NT used to suffer from this behavior):
Pokemassacre: high comedy, World of Warcraft style.
Hooray for TLAs.
The Mac OSX DVD Player User Operations Prohibition patch allows the user to perform actions that a DVD may regard as ‘prohibited’, such as skipping the ten thousand advertisements for whatever mindless drivel is being pumped out by Disney this month.
I haven’t tried it, so if you do, let me know if it melts your Mac.
Here‘s some instructions for setting up your own fake .Mac, on your own server, using WebDAV.
I wouldn’t set this up on an externally-reachable server, of course, but it would be nice to have on an internal corporate LAN. Shared calendars using either iCal or Mozilla’s Calendar would be a nice thing to have.
Confused about what a mochalottacrappafrappacino is? School yourself with this handy Lexicon of Starbuck’s Lingo.
Skype has been out for a while, but I’ve only just started playing with it. So far, I’m very impressed.
Skype is a free voice-over-Internet client. It lets you make phone-quality voice ‘calls’ to other Skype users, for free. The ‘free’ thing is a big seller, for me. Skype does have a for-pay option of calling land-line, regular numbers, but I haven’t tried that yet.
The application install and setup was very easy, and the sound quality is suprisingly good. I’m using it with my iBook, which has an integrated microphone. If you use it with your PC, you may need to attach an external mike.