Apologies to those of you who don’t care.
Sam Freney has developed (and is developing) a Hebrew paradigm trainer for Mac: Paradigmatic.
It’s clean-looking and he’s constantly updating. I think this has the potential to be the Hebrew trainer for Mac. I hope it Goes Global.

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In a couple of weeks third year Hebrew students have our final exam. It’s the final, final exam, which I think means we’re supposed to know Hebrew by now.
Ouch.
Via Mikey, I’ve been using an excellent paradigm training/testing tool from Animated Hebrew. It has a Shockwave interface, which isn’t very pretty and doesn’t allow for [...]

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Coming soon, apparently. Within the next month.
I do love Apple products, but the Apple stores don’t seem all that different from a sexpo, when you think about it.
(I never thought I’d use the word ’sexpo’ on the blog).

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Accordance 8.0 is up. That was sooner than expected.
There’re no huge changes to the UI, but it certainly runs faster. It loads in about a fifth the time it used to, which is very welcome.
There’s a video available, demonstrating some of the new features in v8. (23MB | ~7min).

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As someone who uses Accordance Bible software almost every day, I’m keen for the new release. It will (finally) be Universal Binary, which means it will run natively on Intel machines, like my sweet MacBook.
It’s due in the next month or so (Joe has a countdown), which puts the release before the Sydney training seminars. [...]

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Very clever. The song will probably make you want to stab yourself in the ear, but the visuals are amazing.

Make sure to check out the (inevitable) Windows XP version as well.
Via Lifehacker.

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From Macworld.
The New Rule: Although prices for Apple’s various models have stayed roughly the same over time, the performance of lower-priced systems has improved dramatically. But it’s not just that you get more Mac for your money than ever before—it’s also that the differences between the various Mac lines have diminished.
Via DF.

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Apparently Vodafone will be selling the iPhone in Australia “later this year.”
That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s exclusive to Vodafone though…

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I was searching for the new Dark Knight trailer on Apple.com, when I came across the Return to Dark Castle 3 demo download.
I played Dark Castle as a kid, at the homes of my mates who owned Mac Pluses. We’re talking mid to late 80s. This was a great game.
Years ago, I heard [...]

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Having moved to [Wordpress][], it’s time to try blogging from [Textmate][]. I’m using [Markdown][] to produce this post, rather than writing the entry up in html online.
[Wordpress]: http://www.wordpress.org
[Textmate]: http://www.macromates.com
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

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For a long time Sally and I have agreed that there are many faceless corporations, whose products we use, who hate us. They’re not just indifferent, they actually hate us. One good example are commercial television networks. The way they program demonstrates the disgust they have for us. Sometimes you can almost see the bile [...]

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One of the excellent Mac apps I use is 1Password. It’s one of those collect-your-passwords, fill-in-web-forms jobs that works without you having to think.
If you’re sick of entering passwords to login to websites and/or you’re worried about the security of your passwords stored in your browser (you should be), then take advantage of 1Password’s [...]

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