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Find Gremlins With BBEdit

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

MarsEdit has a little shortcoming that can cause a vexing situation from time to time. It takes what you type or paste into it a bit too literally. So if you flub up at the keyboard and make some wacky keystrokes, you might end up with a weird “invisible character” in your blog post. What […]

A Year Of Martian Sweaters

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Somehow I managed to let yesterday pass by without remarking on the momentousness of the day. February 22, 2007 was the day Red Sweater acquired MarsEdit. I can’t believe it’s already been a year. Time has just flown by. It’s been a lot of work, but when I compare version 1.1.2, which I acquired, to […]

Rogue Displays

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

The folks at Rogue Amoeba have a product called Airfoil, which enables sending arbitrary audio streams to “AirTunes” devices. They just updated it to add support for streaming to your Apple TV. While Apple TV is receiving this streamed audio, it shows various information about the sender, which gave Rogue Amoeba an idea for doing […]

The Getting It Gap

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

When Apple first announced the iPod, way back in 2001 (!), I am ashamed to admit that I didn’t get it. It’s embarrassing, because to me the iPod now seems so obvious. Of course you want 1000 songs in your pocket. Who wouldn’t? For people who still don’t get it, I find it impossible to […]