For those not so in-the-know, RSS feeds are a different way of reading content from your favorite sites. The advantage is that all of your content is aggregated into a single location, for easy reading. The main problem is that most every feed-reader sucks or is overpriced. Google has finally polished their free Reader app, and I’ve switched to it exclusively. The big benefit of it is the ability to group feeds by user-defined categories. (more…)
For those of you who don’t follow these things with bated breath, VirtualBox just finally released a working version for OS X 10.5. Only 4 months late there, guys. What this means for you is absolutely free PC emulation, so you can run Windows within OS X.
I’m a huge fan of Regular Expressions. They are, without a doubt, the single most powerful tool in the programmer’s toolbox. BBEdit, my favorite text editor, happens to have really excellent regular expression support. Among its features is the ability to change the case of matched text - which is really great if you’re having to reformat lists or, say, rename every function in your code. (more…)