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Posted in Main on Aug 5th, 2008
Today I saw a new program at the app store called “I Am Rich”. The description says:
The red icon on your iPhone or iPod touch always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were able to afford this.
It’s a work of art with no hidden function at all.
This app costs [...]
Posted in Main on Aug 5th, 2008
Yesterday I read a rant about how the iPhone is a crappy Mac. The author is completely misguided; he’s comparing a handheld device to a desktop saying what it doesn’t do. It comes as no surprise that the author writes desktop applications and not handheld applications. I’ve been writing handheld applications for most of my [...]
Posted in Main on Jul 12th, 2008
I’ve been doing some iPhone development lately (screenshots and announcement of my first app will be next week) and realized yesterday why I keep running into hurdles; I’m a perfectionist. I want everything to look and work well and have studied the built-in apps for guidance. In my app, the hardest part was the settings [...]
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 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 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 13th, 2008
I’ve struggled with managing my todo lists and have bounced back and forth among many different applications and even paper notebooks! Recently I decided to give 37signals’s Backpack as there are a few Mac clients and the web interface is excellent. I’m quite impressed with it and their free account seems to meet my needs [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 10th, 2008
Well, there isn’t a whole lot I can say. I respect the NDA I signed and therefore can’t reveal the contents of any sessions. However, I can say that I almost fell asleep in a number of sessions; some of the presenters assume zero knowledge from the attendees. While that may be the case for [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 9th, 2008
Lots of web sites have their opinions on the WWDC keynote (pretty much all I can talk about all week), so my comments will be brief.
I really, really wanted a new MacBook Pro; my machine is now 2 years old running a Core Duo processor and not the newer Core 2 Duo. My machine is [...]
Posted in Main on May 30th, 2008
I was doing some testing today and had to re-arrange my USB hubs to put certain devices at the beginning of the chain. Hubs, you ask? Yes, I have 3 powered USB hubs and a ton of devices. Does it all work? For the most part, yes. I really wanted a 14-21 port hub and [...]
