Scott Gruby’s Blog

We just returned from a trip back east and as part of that trip, we went into Brooklyn twice from New Jersey. I almost fell out of the driver’s seat when I had to pay $15 in tolls for each roundtrip. I can understand paying tolls to maintain the roadway, but one bridge was $6 [...]

Read Full Post »

One of the recurring themes in the shareware industry is how to best protect our work from people that don’t want to pay. I know I’ve written on this topic before, but the recent release of Leopard has brought this back to the forefront of my mind. Another blogger wrote about how many people had [...]

Read Full Post »

Yesterday I had to install some maps onto my Garmin iQue 3600 for a trip back east. I had everything installed on my Windows machine, but wanted to put it in VMWare on my Mac so I could finally get rid of the Windows machine. I downloaded all the installers from the web and tried [...]

Read Full Post »

This past week’s trip to New Jersey/New York reminded me why I live in San Diego. The lows in San Diego were higher than the highs in New Jersey. 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit is just too cold too live for me. While the trees changing colors was pretty, I’ll take San Diego seasons any day.

Read Full Post »

When I started ReceiptWallet almost a year ago, I chose to use the XML format for my CoreData stores. This was mainly because I was unsure of CoreData and if I messed something up, I could look at the file in a text editor and change it. Except for the first few weeks developing, I’ve [...]

Read Full Post »

Now that I’ve been using Leopard for a week, I’m started to get used to it and like many of the features. However, there are few things that I don’t like.
Likes

Preview You can add, remove and re-arrange pages in a PDF. This actually made me stop a product I was developing as Apple’s implementation is [...]

Read Full Post »

One of the items that Apple has never solved adequately for me is having multiple email addresses in one account with an associated signature for each one. If I had one account for each email address, things would work fine, but I have a large number of email addresses in one account. So, a few [...]

Read Full Post »

Yesterday as I was attempting to remove a tree that was too close to our house, I managed to puncture a PVC irrigation pipe. Unfortunately, the only way to shutoff the water to the pipe was to turn off the water to the entire house (why anyone would put a shut off to the internal [...]

Read Full Post »

A few users of mine have had problems with the Fujitsu ScanSnap and ReceiptWallet/DocumentWallet under Leopard where they scan, but the programs don’t open it. After a bit of futzing and not believing that my users had stuff configured, I had the same thing happen this morning as I was researching the issue. I’ve described [...]

Read Full Post »