Sascha’s Blog

This is a simple Mac-like port of the U*ix “fortune” command line tool. It includes the original fortune database so there’s no lack of geeky saying for every day. Examples please? Here they are:

 A tautology is a thing which is tautological.

 A long memory is the most subversive idea in America

 Computers are useless - they can only give you answers

                                -- Pablo Picasso

Fortune was designed for old 68k-Macs running MacOS 6 or later and works fine with MacOS 9.x, but is not recommended for use in the MacOS X Classic enviroment.

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This Macintosh desktop picture is based on an artistic interpretation of a Goode Homolosine Projection.

Actually, this looks probably best with earlier versions of MacOS X, but… well…

This is a photograph I took some time ago of Lake Pyhäjärvi in Finland. Works great as a desktop picture.

Some thoughts on how to localize software – since this was originally written for the REALbasic User Group Finland its main target group is REALbasic users, of course, but others might find an insight or two as well.

Localization