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.

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.

Ever since the advent of iWeb some days ago, I’ve been wondering about the quality of the generated html pages. Those of you who already tried the html gallery export from iPhoto might know why I’m so interested in this subject: iPhoto’s html code is ugly. In undefinable ways – and the visual aspects of the generated pages aren’t good either, it’s actually kinda sad that a company which cares as much for outer appearance as Apple, manages to create such ugly galleries as iPhoto, but then again it’s probably menat as an encouragement to buy .Mac…
Anyways, I stumbled upon this iWeb generated Blog today and I’ve got mixed feelings about the code quality (please don’t mind the stylemac code, I had my fair share of Wordpress problems which resulted in some sort of ugly code which will be adressed soon though). There’re many uses of inline style attributes, examples:


style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; overflow: hidden; position: relative; background: #f4f4f4; height: 680px; width: 700px; " id="bodyContent"
or

style="height: 480px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 50px; width: 700px; " id="body_layer"

I’m sure that this could be implemented in a cleaner way too, regardless of browser or software constraints..

If you want to examine yourself, follow the link

iWeb Example
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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).

I’m sure you already heard or read about this, but it’s interesting news nevertheless.

The new iLive ‘06 Suite contains a nifty Web Application now: The so-called ‘iWeb’ it offers Apple-designed Templates, Flexible Website creation, an iLife Media Browser, Blogging, Podcasting and .Mac Publishing.

It has no built-in FTP support, but it allows to export a project to a folder, and you could transfer those files onto an ftp share yourself

The whole application looks a tad like the already previously available RapidWeaver, just that RapidWeaver contains more features.

Apple – iLife – iWeb