A friend of mine is a recent newbie Mac user, after finally succumbing to the shiny white lure of the MacBook. As an expert Unix user, he was missing the old X11 colours list, because he can't have his terminal set up with a horrible shade of puce without having to work out the RGB values for it.
Image resampling for LCD screens
This article covers the use of the RGB subpixel antialiasing technique used in various software packages including Adobe Reader, Mac OS X's Quartz font rasterizer, XRender, Microsoft ClearType, applied to the improvement of quality of non-text images. It includes a testbed and some sample code in C and PHP.