Xavier Defrang

If you ever had problems working with PNG images on the web (typically alpha and gamma issues), you should have a look at this article.

Consider Slashdot. Twenty stories per day, 500 comments per story, 1K bytes per comment, multiply out to 10 megabytes per day or about 3.65 gigabytes per year. That was a huge amount of RAM a few years ago, but now it might cost less than $700 to add to a server.

An interview with Michael Widenius, of MySQL fame, about RAM-only databases.

Apple's Keynote is a really cool piece of software! Presentations looks incredibly professional and the interface is very easy to use. I just wonder why did Apple committed a crime against Typography and Good Taste by providing an MS Comic Sans-based theme?

Cool free software for you Mac heads : Youpi Key.

The highly trained PerversionTracker staff locates the very worst of Mac software.

Tim O'Reilly : If Microsoft really wants to catch the next iWave, they need to realize that while the office may still be where the money is, the passion and the excitement and the future is in reinventing the way people manage their personal information assets -- their music, their photos, their videos. And that's what iLife (Apple's umbrella name for the iApps) is all about.

If you're looking for a cool DivX player for OS X, give a try to the latest release of videolan media player, it's the best I got so far... way better than mplayer or the QuickTime plug-in!

Let's dig in the Keynote XML file format...

Here we go for the first round of Safari bugs... Web developers will "thank" Apple for relying on yet another HTML rendering engine instead of betting on Gecko...

Some thougts after Steve Jobs Apple MacWorld Keynote speech.

• The new 17" PowerBook is just a desktop killer whereas the 12" looks more like a good-looking expensive toy. The new USB printer aware, 802.11g Airport Extreme is also a pretty cool product.
• The Safari web browser is fast indeed but why the hell KHTML instead of Gecko? As long as Safari lacks tabbed browsing and more customizable features, I'll stick to Chimera.
• Keynote looks to me like the killer app for corporate switchers. Just bring your Mac in a meeting and blow the crap out of every other tasteless PowerPoint slideshow with advanced compositing and font rendering of Quartz Extreme. The software looks also way easier to handle than PowerPoint (oh boy these smart rulers!). That's a really good surprise!
• It looks like that Steve was either too busy demo'ing cheesy family-oriented iApps or he was still afraid of the UNIX heads switching to OS X since he completely "forgot" to announce X11!

iLamp is a powerful screen saver specifically designed to unleash the full potential of the new 2002 iMac. It will turn your iMac into an ultra modern lamp when you are not using it as a computer.