Upgraded the first machine to Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) this morning. All in all it took about an hour (first generation MacBook Pro, so newer machines will no doubt process it a bit faster). The only customization I added to the installation was to include Rosetta, just in case (it’s tiny so [...]
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What were they thinking?
I’m annoyed and confused about NewsGator/NetNewsWire’s recent actions.
For starters, I’ve been a happy NetNewsWire user for several years. It was recommended to me when I started with OS X on a Mac Mini (the original PPC version) when it was still developed independently and had a lite and full (for pay) version. I [...]
Switching things around
In the near future (such a conveniently flexible concept) the front page of this website will point to an instance of SweetCron while the blog will probably be moved to a subfolder. SweetCron describes itself as Lifestream software, which allows me to easily gather RSS and Atom feeds from elsewhere and present them in [...]
Koi Pond
A pretty cute holiday specific theme for the Koi Pond iPhone app! I didn’t see it coming because I don’t typically check back the iTMS pages for the apps I have on the phone and then a week ago I batch-installed two dozen updates for various apps without checking what was included in them, [...]
Note to self
When upgrading the kernel to a newer or different version, be sure to also get the appropriate version of the ivtv kernel modules, otherwise MythTV will cheerfully start up and pretend nothing is wrong, but meanwhile it’ll be running with 0 capture cards and no recordings will be scheduled!
I’m glad ABC will repeat tonight’s Lost [...]
My new best friend
Is a Thunderbird extension called Nostalgy which gives me back a couple of things that I’d been missing ever since I switched away from Mutt, a host of keyboard shortcuts:
To change folder, move or copy messages, with folder name auto-completion.
To change focus to the folder, thread, or message panes.
To hide/show the folder pane.
And there [...]
This week’s linkage
How to build your own Sputnik:
“I wouldn’t be surprised if you could build one in a container smaller than a matchbox, weighing about as much as a wristwatch. The components, including a transmitter, battery and the sensors you’d need would probably cost less than £50,” he says.
That’s progress.
Stellarium:
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for [...]
5 seconds (if that) of fame
Yesterday morning I came across an article in The Register about Apple preparing some sort of webapp portal for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Since this seemed relevant, I passed that on to the iPhoneWebDev group, to which I’ve been subscribed almost as long as I’ve had an iPhone. Within minutes Erica Sadun, [...]
Linkage on 2007-10-09
His silence mistaken, deaf man attacked:
The cashier tried to speak to him but got angry when Goodnight didn’t respond, Goodnight told police. The cashier threw Goodnight’s change at him, scattering it on the floor.
As Goodnight picked it up, the cashier hit him in the side of the head with the crowbar, Goodnight said.
The Inflation Calculator [...]
Facebook Apps
The downside of the Facebook Applications and the desperate wish of almost all of their developers to have them go viral and make a fortune is this:
And I assure you that if I didn’t regularly clean out the list it would look a lot worse. What Facebook desperately needs is one or two checkboxes [...]