Dropping off the laptop at the Apple Store earlier this week felt like leaving a kitty at the kennel. There was a certain sense of loss, detachment, and sadness. Farewell, little laptop. They’ll take good care of you while I’m gone. I’ll see you in a few days. Today’s trip to the Apple Store this … Continue reading Happy Returns
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Links
Please take warning: this post will consist almost entirely of other people’s content and links to that content. I picked up the PDF version of iPhone Open Application Development from O’Reilly today. I’ve only skimmed through it, but it looks like a pretty good overview of designing, writing, and implementing iPhone applications using the current … Continue reading Links
Leo Pared
Is it just me, or is there no “archive and install” when upgrading to OS X Leopard? It let me select extra packages (Fonts and X11 are important), but there was never an option (that I saw) to install a “fresh” copy, moving the old one out of the way. No matter, as everything went … Continue reading Leo Pared
iPhone / netnice
Similar to what they did with Aperture rebates a while back, they’ll be doing the same thing with the iPhone. $100 ain’t too shabby. Do any of you Unix-heads know if there is some network-equivalent of the “nice” command for limiting bandwidth under Linux and/or OS X? For instance, it might let me issue a … Continue reading iPhone / netnice
Big Daddy Protects The Triopolis
Big Daddy, the sentinel, standing guard over Triopolis. In unrelated news, I mentioned Mailplane the other day and have been using it since. I’m not quite sure I like it, but I’m not quite sure I dislike it. More testing will be required. At any rate, I seem to have come across five invites. Drop … Continue reading Big Daddy Protects The Triopolis
Mailplane, Suprnova, Bioshock
Mailplane is an OS X client frontend for Gmail (and Google Apps for Domains.) You get the responsiveness of a desktop app with the “I can quickly check my mail from anywhere” webmail backend. Now, if only they’ll open the beta. In other linkiness: Suprnova is back and being run by ThePirateBay folks now. In … Continue reading Mailplane, Suprnova, Bioshock
Hacking the iPhone
Apple released some new iPhone firmware today. Fortunately, they left in all of the loopholes for hacking your own apps into it. The last time I hacked my phone, it took about half a day. This time, it took about 13 minutes (10 of which were waiting for something to download.) This is all it … Continue reading Hacking the iPhone
Pixelmator Beta
It looks like I have been accepted into the Pixelmator beta program. Hopefully it will do everything I need from Photoshop, as I like the idea of paying for software I use, I just like a $50 price tag much more than I like a $1000 price tag. So far, it looks pretty nice and … Continue reading Pixelmator Beta
Top 10 Money Drains
This is my first post using Ecto instead of MarsEdit. I have to say that I am greatly impressed with the Ecto interface. It even has a UI that lets me directly upload images to WordPress instead of having to upload via the web admin interface. It is certainly a more complicated app, but it … Continue reading Top 10 Money Drains
Idea! Digital Holga
Everyone seems to be going hyper over Holga cameras. In case you do not already know, they are cheap (in both price and quality) film cameras originally manufactured in Hong Kong. They have cheap lenses, light leaks, and other “issues.” People love this–Wikipedia describes the resulting pictures as being “appreciated for their low-fidelity aesthetic.” You … Continue reading Idea! Digital Holga