Since we use a NTLM proxy at work I was sort of arsed when trying to use anything bar Camino on my Mac at work. Thanks, however, to Authoxy I can now use all my Internet applications with NTLM occurring transparently in the background. And it’s free! NTLM is still the Devil mind. Bad, Microsoft, [...]
Archive for March, 2005
Frankie goes to GMail
I finally decided today to move my e-mail across to GMail. I’m just sick to death of Orcon‘s shite web-mail interface (and the fact the mail server seems to fall over every couple of months) and given Google has introduced POP access there’s little reason not to jump. Downside: Importing old mail. GML provides relief, [...]
Source control comes to Finder
The one thing I’ve missed after jumping to the Mac is TortoiseCVS (and the SubVersion equivalent). Luckily help is at hand – cvsFinder (for CVS) and SCPlugin (for Subversion). All my [source control] dreams fulfilled :-)
Good old Eostre
My favourite of the pagan holidays. What better excuse is there for a long weekend? The MetService did manage to be wrong about the weather every day (pessimists, the lot of them) but never mind. It gave me an excuse to laze around the house doing very little. Huzzah!
Java lives up to the desktop promise
Well, partially. As long as you’re using Mac OS X. Java has always suffered in the GUI department. Swing has a reputation for being slow, although it should really have a reputation for being difficult to use well. Plus it’s always suffered from looking almost like the host platform but not quite. I won’t even [...]
More neat toys
I’ve stumbled across a few nice programs recently which have reminded me why I jumped ship to the Mac. iComic gets Dilbert (among others) straight to your desktop. Plus it does the standard Cocoa goodies such as fade-in and out when browsing and animated window resizing. Nice. And free! Skype, while being merely a port, [...]
