Xyle scope now free

Cultured Code is now offering Xyle scope for free. Not sure when this happened. Used to cost $20. I’m guessing this choice has a lot to do with the great success of Things. I wrote about Xyle scope in Jan. 2008. My conclusion then:
I almost bought this application but, in the end, I decided to [...]

Hidden Opera

This may be old news to many, but I just learned that Opera is installed by Adobe as part of the Creative Suite.
Turns out Adobe has been using Opera for years as a rendering engine. I’ve read that it’s used in all kinds of places: to display Adobe Help files, in Device Central (to [...]

Aviary: Worth a Test Flight

Aviary, a collection of online design and editing tools, is an amazing technical feat.
A couple of weeks ago, Aviary brought their online vector editor out of Beta. It’s called Raven, and it joins, well, an aviary of other online applications: Phoenix (image editor), Peacock (dubbed a ‘visual laboratory’), Toucan (color manager), and Phoenix (an image [...]

A Greener Apple?

I received my iPhone AppleCare warranty extension in the mail this week. Above, you can see the included shipping material and Apple packaging.
The important part of this package is a registration number printed on one small card. This number must be entered on Apple’s Web site to activate the warranty.
Let’s review this process: I [...]