Category archive: Software

What do you do when you’re one of the world’s top-ten websites, and you support 50 languages, 30 currencies, and four payment systems? And you have, at any given time, about 700 users hitting “reload” to find out up-to-the-minute results of worldwide contributions. You also need a meter to show progress on a site […]

If you use an old USB scanner with a Mac, you’re probably unhappy with the out-of-date drivers offered by the manufacturer. (Chances are it runs in the “Classic” interface, famously replete with Chicago typeface.) Luckily, the opensource community is developing a solution: the TWAIN SANE interface for MacOS X.

“SANE” stands for “Scanner Access Now Easy.” […]