Michael Alderete just e-mailed to let me know that he’s written a personal survey of the anti-spam tools he’s used. Reading through some of the old posts, I found that he’s the only person I know of besides myself who purposely bought a slow disk.
Going against the guidelines, the new public beta of NetNewsWire drops the margins in its main window. Jonathan Rentzsch:
The controls have been pushed to the absolute bottom. The lists abut the left and right sides of the window. Not a pixel of margin. The new UI looks simpler but actually does more.
I agree. It’s a simple change, with a dramatic (positive) effect.
When I need to do some calculations, I used to use up to four different tools, depending on the task at hand.…Lately, I’ve been using Longhand, which has mostly replaced everything except the spreadsheet.
I mostly use an interactive Python session or an HP 48.
This raises a disturbing issue: at what price can the “this software is safe” label be bought? How many lawyers does it take to designate a rank, festering spyware application “perfectly-safe-to-run-this-on-your-grandma’s-computer”-ware? I realise that the vast majority of true problem apps are written by shady organisations without crack legal teams, but this sets a disturbing precedent. Why, now, should anyone trust any spyware removal tool from a large corporation? Who’s to say it isn’t intentionally overlooking its own spyware, or its partners’ spyware?
