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Indie Software Developers
For years, I've seen references to "indie" (independent) software developers, but never considered myself one. I've never had to rely on sales of my own software as I've been an independent contractor without my own products (that brought in any significant amount of income) for almost five years. However, this past year, ReceiptWallet has started to change that; I'm not about to give up my day job, but in an exchange with another developer today, he referred to both of us as "indie" developers. I guess I am an independent developer.
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Cool phone tricks
One of the things I "lost" when I shutdown my server and stopped running my Asterisk PBX was the ability to redirect calls to my phone to my computer in case I was out of town or the like. When we travelled back east last month, we stayed with my uncle who had really high speed Internet (Verizon FIOS), but had virtually no cell phone coverage (neither my Sprint PCS nor my AT&T phone could keep a connection). One day I had to take a business call, but didn't want to hog my uncle's phone line, so I re-directed my PBX to send my calls over SIP to my Mac (using the Gizmo Project's SIP client). That was pretty cool, but I can no longer do that.
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Broken Idle Time in 10.4/10.5
After fighting with trying to get the amount of time since a user has done something with the system, I've determined that CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastEventType is broken. The documentation indicates that calling it like:
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Thanks for the update, Fujitsu!
When Leopard came out, I blogged about a bug in Fujitsu's ScanSnap Manager software. I was unable to get anywhere with Fujitsu and almost forgot about it. However, today in trolling through their website, I saw that they had an article specifically about the software running under Leopard along with a download to a new version of the ScanSnap Manager. Yeah, I downloaded the software, gave it a try and found that it fixed my problem. However, they added a stupid feature called "Quick Menu" which brings up a half baked feature allowing you to send stuff to email, a folder, iPhoto, etc.