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Entries from June 2008

Firefox plugin for PDF

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Yes! Finally a plugin for displaying PDF in Firefox 3 for mac. It uses PDFKit.

Get PDF plugin for Firefox here

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

iPhone will increase Macintosh software

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Nobody talks about the fact that  all the companies  that  will now start making programs for the  iPhone  will first  learn  how easy it is to program with Cocoa. Then suddenly you have a lot of new programmers that know how to program for the Mac as well. Yes, it’s that similar. What would stop [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

Yes, please apple, kill AppleScript

June 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Everytime (well, last night actually) when I need to do something with Applescript I shudder with horror. The syntax is actually something you forget all the time. There must be better alternatives for Apple to use as a scripting language. I agree with this article, but Python or Ruby would be a better alternative I [...]

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Tags: Programming