January 31st, 2006 2 Comments »
If you love the Expose feature and would like to see it in a web browser, check out Shiira. Shiira is an open source (under a revised BSD license) web browser for Mac OS X that runs on the Web Kit engine, the same one Safari is running on. It’s written in Cocoa and is compiled as a Universal Binary so it runs on both PPC and Intel Macs. The current version is 1.2.1.
Shiira’s Tab Expose
Some of the features you have in Shiira are RSS support, tabbed browsing, tab expose, page holders for viewing webpages in a sidebar (sort of like a split screen), page transitions if you’re using Tiger, and support for Firefox bookmarks.
Since it’s free, why not give it a shot? Check out the Shiira Project.
January 9th, 2006 1 Comment »
DJ Pete Tong, an internationally reknown dance DJ speaks on technology and how it’s affecting the art of making music. He also talks about a piece of software he uses on his Mac called Ableton.
The thing about technology — the same as I learned with the advent of CD — if you stop using old technology and move immediately to the new, your DJing dips. Maybe that’s a good thing, but my thing is to try and blend the two. Everyone I’ve seen who has just begun doing it ends up doing things they would never normally do, just because they can. Endless loops, for example. Ableton invites you to rearrange people’s music.
Apple has done alot for the music community. We have the iPod, iTunes, GarageBand, and at the very base of it all we have the excellent Mac platform on which alot of great production software run on.
Read Apple’s Gone Wrong on Wired.
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