Outer Level

Month: April 2006

  • Freeware Utility List

    In the same vein as my previous post on Free Programming Books: Ask the eConsultant: I want a Freeware Utility to … 450+ common problems solved. Found via Blue Sky on Mars

  • Free Online Programming Books

    Cool list… posted so I don’t lose the link. 195 Free Online Programming Books Found via Wired

  • LicenseKeeper, Where Art Thou?

    LicenseKeeper, where art thou? I announced the start of development for LicenseKeeper in October of last year. It’s been six months and I haven’t talked about it since. I guess I made the classic mistake of announcing a product too early. Sometimes, the hard lessons must be learned through experience. Development has been progressing since […]

  • 10 Stupid Small Business Mistakes

    Steve Pavlina on 10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed: 1. Selling to the wrong people. I’ve done this. Boy, does this hurt the bottom line. A few years ago, I tried to enter the Web Hosting business. Since I host all Outer Level owned sites on a dedicated server with plenty of Bandwidth […]

  • Run Windows XP Without Rebooting

    This is getting interesting. Mac World reports that a company called Parallels now has software that uses Intel’s built-in virtualization technology to allow Windows to run inside Mac OS X. This seems far more interesting that dual booting into Windows. There’s also some speculation of this functionality being built right into the next version of […]

  • Apple Boot Camp: Run WindowsXP on a Mac

    Apple Boot Camp sounds like a late April Fools joke, but it looks real. As tempting as this sounds, somehow it just feels dirty. Is Apple selling out here? What’s this going to do to the Mac games market or the Mac 3rd party software market? It’s one thing to use an Intel chip, but […]

  • Bullfrog: Universal Binary Released

    The new version of Bullfrog featuring Intel Mac support has been released. Changes in this update: New: Universal binary support for both PowerPC (ppc) and Intel (i386) New: graphics scoreboard New: Bullfrog Theme Song New: Improved Horsefly AI New: Improved Bee AI New: “Check for Updates” menu item New: Title Splash Screen New: Player can […]

  • The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

    The Good Let the Universal Binary testing begin: The Bad The end of my trusty old Titanium PowerBook? Ah, maybe Not… The Ugly Wow! I never realized what a sad state current remote control industrial design was in.