This goes out to all the people I associate with regularly who have sloppy habits. You’re my friends, but please - it’s important. Ok?
First up: WEIRD, not wierd, people. This should not be difficult!
Oh, and while we’re at it: pronunciation. There’s no extra “o” in there. So please, never say that word “pronounciation”, because it [...]

So, HandBrake. It’s great, and the devs are very committed and do a great job. But… A couple of possible features have been cast aside recently, because they wouldn’t be cross-platform - in both cases, they’d be Mac-specific.
You see, it turns out OS X is pretty good (!). Through Core Audio, it’d be possible to [...]

This started life as a comment but it’s a bit long, so here we are.
Over the last couple of months - particularly after the release of Safari 3 beta for Windows - there have been a few good articles about the differences between Apple’s and Microsoft’s approaches to font smoothing. predictably, it seems that Mac [...]

So, HandBrake 0.9.0 is out, and it’s pretty hot - so many new features it’s not even worth trying to list them. I’m particularly thrilled by this release as it was announced on a website I had a small hand in, contains my first couple of lines of Objective-C code ever, and is mirrored on [...]

So, as a persistent dabbler in web design, and a dude who generally has an opinion on everything, this piece on Wired got me thinking about new sites (or accessible versions of existing sites) designed specifically for the iPhone. It’s not a great article - it doesn’t attempt to justify the premise that the iPhone [...]

Says it all really. See here if you want to read JK Rowling’s smug, unnecessary explanation of the weak, overly neat, sickly and predictable ending/epilogue/ramble.
Sorry, sounds harsh, but it’s a disappointing ending to an over-hyped, averagely-written series. I don’t begrudge her some success, but it’s got ridiculous; there are so many better authors out there [...]

I should probably add my thoughts having seen the Simpsons Movie.
Like you’ve not seen it.
I thought it was pretty damn funny, and revisited some of the old style, totally unexpected comedy. You know - where they lead you down one funny joke, and then abandon it part way through to go somewhere even funnier. I [...]