Last night I was up too late for my own good, drawn into some strange corners of the Internet over on the Mac section of Danny Choo's site, and found a link to DoubleTake, a Mac OS X application for stiching together panoramas. I decided not to try it out, but did add it to my del.icio.us links for later. My description was a bit strange ("$12; there are no free stitch apps that I can find; I'm having a hard time finding *good* ones, never mind free ones"), and hinted at my frustration with other tools like the open source, highly complex/somewhat slow Hugin and Canon's crappy still-looks-like-OS-9 Photostich.

I was very surprised to get up this morning and get an email from Henrik Dalgaard, creator of DoubleTake and other apps at Echo One. He is obviously tracking del.icio.us linkage, and wanted to know more:

Thank you for the delicious comment. It is ambigous though. Do you
have any feedback I could use to make DoubleTake better?
I am aiming to make it simple to get quality results with DoubleTake,
and let Stitcher and Hugin take care of the more professional needs.

I felt a bit silly, since I hadn't even tried the software yet, and also amazed at how well Henrik is tracking feedback. Well, I got home today, tried it out, and here's my review (in fancy dancy hReview format, thanks to hReview creator, inspired by D'Arcy Norman).

Note: this is copied from the distribution of ext2fsx on Sourceforge.net. I couldn't find a copy online other than in the download, so have put it here for convenience.

By now we've heard about Apple's upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.4, a.k.a. Tiger. It's scheduled for the end of this month: April 29th.

And all of the features are known. Michael Gartenberg gushes about the release, saying he's "still convinced that Tiger is a big deal and it just might be the the best OS on a PC I have ever seen for productivity use".

But we've come to expect something more. Jobs always seems to have a rabbit up his sleeve. Or maybe the new OS really is that good, that installing it/using it IS the rabbit? I can tell people are looking for more info -- my rumours post on 10.4 is getting lots of traffic.

Here's my related but somewhat random rumour: Scoble has been talking Apple a lot lately. Jobs has convinced him to come to Apple to do tablet evangelism (that's the one more thing, and here's my Mac tablet spec) and kickstart Apple's entry into the blogosphere.

Enabling virtual hosting on your Mac OS X machine will allow you to serve web content from a single IP address for multiple domain names, including sub-domains. This is useful for having a local development environment on your laptop, as you never need to edit your web server config files, just create additional folders matching the site names you want to work with.

Note: the original version of this document was created for pre-Leopard Mac OS X versions. See the previous revision here. This version references Apache 2.2 on Mac OS X Leopard, and recommends editing the hosts file rather than using NetInfo.