Thoughts on Macworld
I’m in San Francisco, but not expressly for the purpose of attending Macworld. Moscone Center is on the way from my hotel to the OSAF offices, and it’s easy to get a free exhibit pass, so I managed to...
View ArticleGrowlified Tweet
I’ve updated Tweet, the Applescript Quicksilver action for Twitter, so that it sends a Growl notification when it completes. The code is here.
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Classic interactions
Brent Simmons documented an exchange that happened on the NetNewsWire beta list: The small exchange below happened on the NetNewsWire private mailing list after the release of a recent build:...
View ArticleMacintosh Tips and Tricks revised
My Macintosh Tips and Tricks page is one of the most visited page on my site. However, it was pretty out of date, particularly with respect to Intel Macintoshes. A few weeks ago I started converting...
View ArticleWWDC keynote impressions
I have to say that I was pretty underwhelmed by the WWDC Stevenote today. Between the combination of last year’s keynote and the promise of super cool, top secret features, I was expecting a bit more...
View ArticleSometimes reading is useful…
Turns out that there is a little more technical information for us poor folks that aren’t at WWDC. So on the topics that I wanted more info on: Multicore – fixes to the scheduler, including processor...
View ArticleLeopard hasn’t even shipped yet, and I am already mad…
I found Leap via TUAW today. I’ve been watching Yep because I collect PDF’s like candy, and it’s just getting a little out of hand. So the idea of a “tagging Finder” sounded pretty good to me. I...
View ArticleLeopard, Java, and Open Source
I haven’t gotten around to upgrading to Leopard yet for several reasons, probably the most prominent of which is that Lightroom doesn’t work correctly, and I’m starting to use it a lot (more on that in...
View ArticleOS X Scripting
John Gruber followed up on Daniel Jalkut’s suggestion that Apple replace AppleScript with Javascript: I agree with this wholeheartedly. Or maybe even make a clean break and scrap OSA and introduce a...
View ArticleWhat I am hoping for at WWDC
1. 3G iPhone with hardware GPS – I am dying to put my Nokia 6600 to rest 2. An emphasis on stability and performance in 10.6. – 10.5 just seems less reliable than it should. I am having problems with...
View ArticleEvernote and other applications that are getting a workout
It’s been a while since I reported on the state of my Macintosh. Here are a few apps that I’ve been using a lot recently. Evernote I’ve had Evernote installed for quite some time, but I didn’t really...
View ArticleLifestreaming clients
I have usernames on most of the major lifestreaming services (Twitter, FriendFeed, identi.ca, and so on). For a variety of reasons, I really only use Twitter, and the only way that Twitter is useful /...
View ArticleOn Apple and Macworld
Much is being made of Apple’s decision to leave the Macworld show. You can look at this from several angles: New Product Announcements From Apple’s point of view, leaving Macworld is a major win. This...
View ArticleGrowlified Tweet is working again
I’ve updated the Growlified Tweet script to deal with some changes in the Twitter API. Enjoy!
View Articledtrace -G on Mac OS 10.5 or dtrace for Python
Let’s suppose that you were trying to port dtrace probes from (Open)Solaris to Mac OS X, and the makefile for the probes on (Open)Solaris calls for the -G option, which isn’t recognized by dtrace in...
View ArticleLifestreaming, round 2
Macintosh MRR Software has released a beta of Syrinx 2.0 just in time for PyCon this week (or ApacheCon EU or EclipseCon, if you are at one of those events). My biggest complaint with Syrinx 1.0 was...
View ArticleMac Pro time
For the past three or four years, I’ve been promising myself that I was going to buy myself a Mac Pro. This mostly a result of digital photography, which makes rapacious demands on computer systems. In...
View ArticleThoughts on WWDC
Some thoughts on yesterday’s announcements: MacBook Pros The laptop refresh was a surprise to me. I wasn’t expecting anything until Intel’s Nehalem based laptop CPU’s and chipsets hit the market late...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts on the iPad
Here is a jumble of thoughts about the iPad, after finally getting a chance to watch the Stevenote last night. If you haven’t watched it, I think that there are some parts of it that are worth...
View ArticleMacintosh Tips and Tricks revised
For years I’ve maintained a page of Macintosh Tips and Tricks. It’s one of the most referenced pages on my blog, so someone must be using it, despite the fact that it was only up to date for Mac OS...
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