NSLog();

I see this in top when encoding DVDs (specifically: when waiting for the Status to indicate that the Encoder is done creating an MPEG-2 movie):
3282 EncoderSer 101.5% 5:28.78 9 128 222 13.4M+ 7.11M 18.2M+ 136M+
3281 TNSPosterS 0.0% 0:00.83 3 [...]

The Property List for iMovie3 (com.apple.iMovie3.plist) gives some hints towards escaping the Ken Burns effect:
<key>Option autoApplyPanZoomToImportedStills: %d</key>
<true/>
and
<key>PanZoomEndZoom</key>
<real>1.000000000000000e+00</real>
<key>PanZoomOffsetEndX</key>
<real>0.000000000000000e+00</real>
<key>PanZoomOffsetEndY</key>
<real>-1.907349e-06</real>
<key>PanZoomOffsetStartX</key>
<real>0.000000000000000e+00</real>
<key>PanZoomOffsetStartY</key>
<real>0.000000000000000e+00</real>
<key>PanZoomStartZoom</key>
<real>1.000000000000000e+00</real>

iMovie 3 is pretty awesome. I posted the other day about how it allowed me to capture video from my TiVo flawlessly, not dropping a frame while I checked email, launched applications, and otherwise went about my normal work day. I'm absolutely happy that iMovie 3 is "in a window" instead of "gosh darn it [...]

Seems Pragmatic Dave needs to be a bit more diligent in his research. He says that turning on bold fonts in the terminal takes over the CPU and "ls -l /usr/bin hogs the machine for achingly long seconds."
Uhhh,

Today I hooked my TiVo up to my DV camera (a Sony DSR PD-150) with stereo and s-video cables, and from there via Firewire into my Mac. This allowed me to record live TV (or actually, a program I had recorded on my TiVo). I used iMovie 3, and the best darn thing about it [...]

According to Chuq (this is sarcasm: deal with it), twelve whole people use Opera for the Mac! Surely he must be including the developers themselves, as well as their significant others. And their pets.
The reality: Opera is threatening to leave the Mac. Y'know what? Fine. Like Chuq says, they had two years to produce a [...]

Apple today released (quite silently) new Macs, huge discounts on LCDs (chopping $3499 to $1999!), and a few other things here and there. Slashdot, of course, covered the news, and the ensuing conversation can be summed up as follows:
Anonymous Coward: Macs suck
Anonymous Coward: You suck
l33tD00dz: I want one
Anonymous Coward: all your lcd price drops are [...]

Still looking for some more tabbed Safari mockups? Check out this page, then, to get your Monday fix.

Says Steven:
I think there should be a programming language called Subjective-C. Boolean operations would return different results depending on who was using your program.

I sometimes wish I could remotely disable my software on a customer's computer, offer the customer a refund, and say "thanks for being the stupidest customer alive - we don't appreciate [...]

David Hyatt, former Mozilla/Chimera über-nurb and current Safari nurb-extraordinaire, ponders the merging of RSS aggregators and browsers. It's awesome that David - in public view no less - is considering these things. And to you tabbed browsing fans, David gives you some hope, saying "tabs provide one with a means of efficiently handling a lot [...]

I've just spent a few hours playing around with the public beta of Terragen for Mac OS X. Terragen, as you can see to the right, is a 3D landscape thing. If you remember Bryce, you'll understand Terragen. Though pretty simple (i.e. no trees), Terragen offers a wide variety of options. The interface is a [...]

Shawn writes in this entry that he doesn't intend to buy iLife. Why? Because he only uses iTunes and iPhoto. I'm going to buy iLife... but I use iDVD (not so much iMovie, since I've got Final Cut Pro). In fact, my project this weekend was going to be to archive some West Wing episodes [...]

I just realized that it's been nearly two years since we've gotten a new version of Internet Explorer. Two freakin' years! Actually, it's been longer if you count the version that shipped with public beta. Sure, we've had some security updates here and there, but where is IE 5.5 or 6.0? Over two years! That's [...]

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday dear Macintosh
Happy birthday to you…
…and maaaaaany mooooooooore!
Today is the Mac's 19th birthday. As I sit here staring at my 23" LCD attached to a dual 800 MHz G4 with 1.5 GB RAM about 15 peripherals, all running on a Unix-based OS for which I am developing (on [...]

I'm a big fan of AppleScript. After all, I do run AppleScript Central. So when things like this article pop up on the Web, I take note. Truth is, I've been using a similar AppleScript for a few weeks now (wow, Safari has been out that long?). Here it is: