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Posted in Main on Jun 29th, 2008
I’ve been using GrandCentral for awhile now and think I have finally managed to get people to start calling that number. The flexibility is great; I can pick the phone I want to use and if I travel, I can set calls to goto my cell phone. If I’m around, calls goto my VOIP line. [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 23rd, 2008
I, like many modern Mac developers, use Sparkle for auto-updating ReceiptWallet. This is an amazing framework that keeps getting enhanced. Many developers just shove it in and forget it. When there is an issue, they just complain about crappy code (I know I do that a lot). Today in updating ReceiptWallet, I found that my [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 23rd, 2008
I got my bill from MCI (The Neighborhood plan) the other day for our home phone service and saw that it jumped! After some research (viewing my invoice online was a nightmare because the server kept dropping my connection even when I tried from Windows), they raised my rate $10 per month. I’ve been a [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 22nd, 2008
I had a user today purchase ReceiptWallet and then complain that it doesn’t work on Mac OS X 10.2.8! First off, people should download the demo prior to purchasing as I have a big “agree to this” section when purchasing that tells people to try before they buy and says we don’t offer refunds. (I [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 22nd, 2008
Yesterday we went to our niece’s birthday party at a local park. When we pulled up, I found a perfect parking spot, but our only concern was that it was too close to the corner. I parked, we took a look and saw that it was fine. When I returned to the car later to [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 22nd, 2008
Today I saw an ad for a 1/4 ton folding chair. My take on this is that the chair holds up to 1/4 ton; the chair also looked a bit wider. Frankly, a chair that holds 500 pounds (presumably 1 person) is just gross. I understand that there is a market for it, but do [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 21st, 2008
I’ve written about OS X Server in the past and somehow I keep getting roped into dealing with these machines. The concept of OS X Server is great; a small business server that anyone can setup. The implementation, however, is quite lacking. Apple took open source software, like Apache, BIND, Open Directory and Jabberd and [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 18th, 2008
Several months ago, a friend told me that a little known fact is that most residential faucets come with a lifetime warranty (OK, maybe not little known, but until I started ReceiptWallet, I could never find manuals/warranties). I put in our kitchen faucet when we moved in about 4 years ago. I noticed that it [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 17th, 2008
Lately I’ve noticed that my machine is quite slow and appears to lock up for seconds at a time causing me to pound the keyboard. It is a 2 year old first generation MacBook Pro so that could explain a lot. However, I installed iStat Menus and turned on the CPU and memory items. It [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 15th, 2008
Even though I’ve been using Xcode for something like 5 years, I learn something new about it and its related tools all the time. This week I started playing with Instruments and the Leaks tool in particular. I was horrified at the number of memory leaks I found in ReceiptWallet. While they weren’t large, I’m [...]
