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I was so stressed out in works lately. Get some software to play around and surfing for good reading is my usual style of releasing stress — it’s just too easy to dive into the web over too many hours…

Over weekend I found some goodies for my Mac experience and some URL/text for reading:

• Mac OS X
  
  • GrApple : this theme extension made Firefox for Mac OS X looks more Mac-like, just like a Safari without brushed metal.
    
  • Firefoxy : Firefoxy is an application instructing Firefox how it should draw those graphical widgets (text input area, radio buttons, submit buttons…etc). Now my Firefox on Mac looks brilliant. Those buttons and text boxes not feeling a bit too big now.
    
  • RubyOnRails on Mac OS X : Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger by Dan Benjamin. It get all the source code and built up from scratch. Check out RailsOnOSX on rails wiki too. And Locomotive, a one-click solution to get you a Ruby On Rails development platform on Tiger, its default database binding is SQLite. But MySQL and PostgreSQL is ready too.
    
• Palm : I dig out a old Palm m505 from store room, and thinking of a good use of it. At least for light e-books reading.
  
  • Plucker : an offline website reader, used to be famous in the old days. Not sure has it catched up with the RSS reading?
    
  • Speaking of RSS reader on Palm, Quick News looks pretty good. AvantGo used to be the first choice when it come to channel subscribing, headline news reading or offline web reading. But I don’t like its server site channel subscribing kind of setting. I’d like all my RSS list and offline reading all happen just between my desktop environment and the Palm.
    
  • Of course, all the basic and fun Palm app I could recall: SilverScreen, iSilo, Palm Reader, Adobe Reader. There’s no mp3 playing capability in m505, what a waste. May be I should consider the upgrading if PDA is once again get me good life experience.
• Links
  
  • Collection of Lisp Books
    
  • CxxTest User Guide : CxxTest is a JUnit/xUnit/CppUnit like C++ Unit Test framework
    
  • A List Apart, 208, published 28/Nov/05
    
  • Mark Cuban wrote a series of posts of his story: Success & Motivation - Redux
    
  • Jeff Ooi - Screenshooter : The path of Jeff Ooi as the most prominent news blogger in Malaysia. It’s understandable that Jeff is disappointed with Malaysian blogland — where his effort didn’t inspire more bloggers as his kind, where ideally we have Internet as the alternative media — to free more thought, to get government or authorities be accountable. That isn’t what’s happening now, as some M’sian bloggers are either used to treat blogging as their opened diary, or don’t own good writing skills, or simply don’t care too much on news. But that’s why Jeff is so unique, none of others could have his consitency, coverage to achieve what he’s doing in his blog.

Well, enough. I should back to work.