Soon you all may be able to use Gimp without that nasty X11 starting in the background (and slowing down your Mac).
Gimp uses the so-called Gtk+ toolkit to display it’s widgets & visible elements. Gtk had originaly been developed for use in Gimp but then continued on a bright path conquering all kinds of territory; it’s now Gnome’s official toolkit, used as the standard-toolkit for Mono (an Open Source .net development) and thus drives a lot of open source applications. Now some people have been working hard on porting it to Mac OS X – natively, that is without any X11. The benefit of this would be that, next to Gimp, a gigantic amount of Gnome-Applications would be available on Mac OS X. And since Gnome proposes and follow a HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) which is quite close to Apple’s, there’s a good reason to look forward to this event.

I just tried this application recently (they offer a downloadable trial). It’s awesome, offers great usability and, if you’re a bit comfortable with 3D / game stuff, allows to create games in a blaze.

http://otee.dk/

A friend send me this code which basically reduces almost every webspace plan by DreamHost to up to 50% of it’s original price. That’s darn cheap considering all the features Dreamhost offers. Stylemac itself runs at Dreamhost, and I’m really happy with them and their service. In order to use this weird offer (It says ‘Interal use’ if you want to use it, I wonder if it’s not meant for public use, so better use it while it lasts), you have to go to the DreamHost Site, choose a Plan (that is a Product) and then there’s a box somwhere which allows you to enter so called ‘promo-codes’ into which you enter the following promo-code:

PLEASEDONTSHARE1

try it.

Free fonts are a difficult topic. Most of them are either totally specific (like a Coca Cola font, or “extreme distored arial”) which means they’re only usable for headlines or catchy phrases, and the rest is in the one or other way ugly. There’re few brilliant ones, and finding them can be worse than the obligatory needle in the haystack; so it’s really really nice that Vitaly Friedman collected his top twenty list of free fonts. (Which I, of course, immediately downloaded).

Really nice pictures. Kinda reminds me of the good times

Flickr: Photos from Andy Rosen