ZeroG makes a cool program called InstallAnywhere that you can use to create platform-neutral installers for distributing your Java applications (the installer will even install the JRE/Virtual Machine if the client computer lacks it [currently supports Windows, Mac Classic and OSX, Solaris, Linux, LinuxPPC, HP-UX, and AIX]).Very cool.

In the past week, someone has offered to translate the bassbook into Portuguese. People have occasionally made offers to translate the bassbook (once into Spanish and once into Russian). And someone has already translated the rec.music.makers.bass FAQ into Italian. I’m excited to see this new translation. If you’re interested in translating the bassbook or rmmbfaq [...]

Not long back, Microsoft proposed to the courts that they should be allowed to make restitution for their decades of illegal business practices through a plan touted as an effort to benefit poor public schools (by giving them refurbished PCs loaded with the Windows OS) but one that was, quite obviously, a simple strategy to [...]

Problem: you’re bored with the look of your computer’s virtual desktop. Solution: grab lots of beautiful icons and then learn how to tweak your interface. Voila! Problem: there are some great Macintosh games that you haven’t played in years because your old Perfoma 631CD is sitting in an attic somewhere. Solution: grab a copy of [...]

In the last week, there have been lots of backend changes here at wheatdesign and there are more to come. The styleswitcher script is now working very well on windows machines and macs running IE or Mozilla. Next, I’m going to fix a few typos and get everything to validate. Thanks to sjarvis for the [...]