• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On March 17, 2006

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Hmm. Or, the downside of Mac on Intel.

I have a very brief report on the quality of the PowerPC emulation layer (Rosetta) built into the new Intel based Macs, like the MacBook Pro. It’s good—it’s very good. I haven’t found any native Mac OS X apps that didn’t run correctly with it. Except. There is a small catch, which is that plug-ins [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On March 17, 2006

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William Gibson: V for Vendetta ‘superb’

William Gibson’s all too infrequently updated blog updated this morning with a quick review of the new movie adaptation of V for Vendetta: “More thumbs up than a Chernobyl pianist.” With a recommendation like that, how can it miss? Gotta get out to see this one. Of course, I may have difficulty watching Natalie Portman’s [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On March 17, 2006

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The elements of (online) Typographic Style

I’ve meant to blog The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web for quite a while but now (thanks to a sick day while I fight off the remnants of this cold) am finally getting around to it. The site is just what it says, a work in progress that takes each of the [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
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Something else I can do on my new MacBook Pro

Ars Technica: Windows XP on Intel iMac: confirmed. Yeah, thanks but no thanks. Still, interesting to note that the level of effort involved is fairly low and involves modifications of only a few files.