Archive for November, 2007

Fix the Leopard 2D Dock: remove the white edge borders

November 15th, 2007

On a recent post titled “How to fix the Leopard GUI ugliness (dock, menubar, stacks)” I wrote about turning your Leopard Dock to a 2D one, and complained about the white edges you get when you do so.
Adam Jury commented about how you can get rid of those lines if you just remove the files [...]

Bananaranha: the month in review

November 13th, 2007

My, how time flies. It’s a couple of days less than a full month that this blog operates. Where by “month” I mean an arbitrary 30 day period, since I didn’t have the foresight to launch this blog on a 1st.
Even at this early stage I have had several thousand visitors. Of course, submitting most [...]

How to fix the Leopard GUI ugliness (dock, menubar, stacks)

November 11th, 2007

Well, since Apple’s UI team seems to be in ruins (or on cheap acid capsules), someone has to step up and fix the bloody mess that they have created.
Make the Leopard Dock 2D
For the Terminal-fearing types there is a simple application that lets you switch between 2D and 3D look. It’s called 2DOrNot2D and it’s [...]

QuickLook chokes on BOM-less text files

November 10th, 2007

Do you know the BOM? Short for Byte Order Mark, it refers to a few bytes in the beginning of a utf-8 file, used to denote the endianess (byte order), of the file. The BOM is (supposed to be) invisible when opening the file for editing.
It’s is, in my opinion, an abomination in the eyes [...]

Naked Light : Photoshop killer or one more mid-level image editor?

November 8th, 2007

Wow! Is this new imaging application, Naked Light, for real?
If yes, it packs some pretty interesting new ideas, like dispensing with layers altogether in favor of lightweight image elements called nodes that can contain filters, text, brush strokes and more and be arranged horizontally or vertically (stacked).
It also promises “Infinite Resolution”. My guess is [...]