Monthly Archives: June 2009

It’s All About The Keyboard

June 28, 2009 – 22:47

The reason I favour some console applications over their graphical equivalents is that they’re designed to be easy to use with a keyboard. A little while ago I wrote about a day I spent trying to perform my usual online and music-listening tasks using console applications, just for fun. These days I spend my time [...]

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Making iTunes Suck Less With Firefly

June 5, 2009 – 17:07

Friends of mine know that I have much to complain about where iTunes is concerned. To summarise what is a long rant (which I may someday write), the problems are poor support for file formats—Ogg Vorbis and FLAC in particular—and various UI issues. Getting a better music-playing program running on OS X is a secondary [...]

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Text. Why Not?

June 1, 2009 – 19:23

A day or two ago I reinstalled Debian on my PC, removing in the process a mostly broken installation of Ubuntu 9 (no, it came like that). In the interest of avoiding the problems usually associated with Linux on the desktop I declined to install an X server. This afternoon I fired it up and [...]

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