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Posted in Main on Jan 30th, 2008
I have a love/hate relationship with Cocoa Bindings. On the surface, bindings look really cool. Write less code and get a program running faster. This is great in theory, but in reality, it can be tricky. Bindings in Interface Builder work OK (however, there seems to be annoying Interface Builder bugs that change the focus [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 30th, 2008
My wife and I have now managed to get out of the house to watch a few movies without our son (we left him with a babysitter) and while it is good to get out, it reminds me of how annoyed I get at movies. We pay our money (we’ve gone to matinees so the [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 30th, 2008
I’m a bit paranoid about backups, so when Leopard came out, I started using Time Machine to backup in addition to doing my daily SuperDuper! backup. I started using it as an experiment to see how it would work. The one issue I see with Time machine is having to have a drive connected all [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 27th, 2008
I wrote almost 2 weeks ago about changing ReceiptWallet into a document based application. I’ve been hesitant to do so because there are lots of things involved. For instance, I have to lock out scanning when one window is scanning, I have to deal with each window having a Reports item, etc. I decided that [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 22nd, 2008
Last week before I left for Macworld, the screen on my Parrot CK 3100 car kit went blank. I sent email to Parrot and even though the kit was far out of warranty, they said they’d send me a new screen. They never asked for my serial number and a new screen arrived today. I’ll [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 21st, 2008
Another part of my UI overhaul is to redo my preferences. They’ve completely gotten out of hand and everything has been in one window like this.
I like how iTunes and other apps (including the Finder) have a tabbed toolbar interface, so I went that route. Using Matt Gemmell’s SS_PrefsController as a base, I re-worked my [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 21st, 2008
ReceiptWallet and DocumentWallet have done fabulously well, almost beyond my wildest dreams (OK, maybe not, I dream that I can sell 100 copies a day and then I could just sit back and relax). One of the downsides with this success is that support requests are on the rise. Some of the questions are simple [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 21st, 2008
President Bush’s proposed tax rebates send the wrong message in my opinion to the American people. The rebates stop if you earn a certain amount of income which might be fine, but the purpose of the rebates is to get people to spend money. Americans already have a negative savings rate and this tax rebate [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 21st, 2008
There have been articles recently saying that fans of the San Diego Chargers would only come out in good weather, but that was proven wrong in a recent game when it was raining. However, this post isn’t about that type of weather. This is about fans that wear the Chargers colors/gear only when they are [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 21st, 2008
I’ve been to the Handlery Hotel in San Francisco at least twice, but kept forgetting to take a picture of “the stairs to nowhere”. I finally snapped a picture. It always makes me chuckle when I pass by it.
