OSX is nice , and not because it has no shortcomings , but because you can fix them as opposed to windows.
This has a lot to do with the power of osx that stems from it having applescript and a posix compliant shell.

Here is how to change metadata of files so you can play divx movies with itunes for example , with terminal and devtools
, with applescript http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=214705

Now that you can play those files with itunes how about having them show and play in Front Row from the confort of your remote , without even adding them to the itunes library , it is just a matter of making symbolic links in your ~/Movies folder to the directories containing your movies , you can use the shell or just alt+cmd drag them to ~/Movies to make the links.

Next on let's take downloading movies from youtube , you have the option of using a shell script http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080216181658527 , apple script http://bbs.macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=19531 , and finally a full application http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/tubetv/ that is the best option in this case.

Now how about playing every movie format there is including the flash movies you just downloaded from youtube in anything you like , quicktime , itunes , frontrow etc , well then just download http://perian.org/ and never care about formats of movies ever again.

To top it off i have a script for those times when you do want to know what are your movie files encoded with , this is a extremely fast shell script , with basic info , you can get it packaged as a osx app to drag folders to or directly as a cross-platform script.

Ok so i have to quote and comment on the following from informationweek : ^ I am a web developer and i am not disappointed at all by his statement which for the record was straight on and amounted to : Now i certainly do not know who advises Jobbs , but i can tell you that a software engineers or web developer will agree with him on that , only the web designers and entrenched corporate entities might differ but that is another story.
And even them benefit from the fact that Jobbs is pushing innovation by forcing adobe to improve the inners of the flash mess and not helping it's monopoly over web content delivery systems.

If you ever did a whois on say google.com , miscrosoft.com or yahoo.com you have been most likely been exposed to some obscenity and there is nothing the owners of the named domains can do about it.

Things are looking up for Cisco Systems and for those lucky CSCO stock owners nowadays as Cisco is well under way towards strong penetration of the telco market , hell they even wap enabled their website just now.

I recently replaced my trusty UltraX keyboard and mouse with the Logitech diNovo Cordless Desktop for Notebooks and i had a seroius problem with pressing the Sleep button every time i picked it up so i just had to disable that.

What would you say if not owning a garage your auto seller would supply by default a Mord truck by your house for you to park your new car into and told you this is your only alternative besides buying a garage from them?

What i am talking about is the date 06.06.06 when we could see signs of the dollar to recover from a 2 month decline in anticipation of the 17th successive rise in U.S. interest rates by the Fed (which happened today) and in the momentum of the oil prices drop.

It comes as no surprise too , microsoft's paradigm for adding new features is reinventing the wheel , and they overengineer it just to the point where it is inevitable to break , and impossible to determine why it did so.

It is common belief that Perl is the language of choice for the purpose of data processing and manipulation , and i couldn't agree more , having been turning to it every time i needed some serious data processing , only to get the best results at each undertaking.

I have finished going trough my third Dan Brown novel , i was curious about these "high-tech thrillers" he is supposed to write , and what can i say , they are not plain , prety documented and mostly entertaining , but i am not sure Dan Brown is a writer , or at best that he has any grip with technology.

It is some time now since english has became my secondary language given my computer interests (kids, in the past there were only english versions of operating systems) , and technical things like RFC's are better understood in their original language , still every now and then i can not feel entertained or puzzled by the english semantics , especially the roots of the words.

It is not me that says it , i just think it and quote John C. Dvorak who voices it a lot better than i could or care to.
He is a writer for pc magazine and even tho he is most clueless writing about technology , he can be head on on issues that he can actually understand and is one of the few ( Bruce Schneier, Marcus Ranum ) who's collumns i read regularely , you can always expect a great deal of pertinence from his writings.
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A tyrannical ruler of the medieval lands here once said "If you do not want me , well i do want you" when he was opposed to becoming a king , and he had his ways to enforce his saying and overcome all his opposer's.

I was baffled but not really surprised by a relatively new discovery by Dr. David Dunning that the most likely persons to overestimate their skills in a area are the ones that do not have any skills in that area.

Xtreme Programming or XP for short are "agile" programming methodologies are the spearhead of what are known as lightweight programming methodologies , and are getting more popular every day.

It looks like it is going to be a bleak year for PhpBB securitywise , do not get me wrong however , i am a big fan of the software and it is the buletin board that i will allways use.

Since aprox Sept 2004 there is a new headache for mail server administrators but it is not sure whatever it has the same effect on spammers , like it was intended to , and it's name is SPF .

In a age when the browser seems to be more important than the content in it , i invite you to take a trip out from the general mood and present you with a rough , but hmm.. revelatory proposition

Lately Google seemed to expand to a monopol position in the search engine area while steadily assimilating new teams and markets and competitors like Yahoo did not seem to like it , less than a week ago Yahoo bought Inktomi and started its own search engine dispensing of the google services , before that Yahoo was using AltaVista since 1996 , Inktomi since 1998 and finally Google since 2002 , to power it's web search .

Google has grown to a point where there are fully blown books on it's extensive features and there are hundreds of sites providing tools trought it's api's , this post is an attempt to introduce a couple of them