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Thursday, December 28th, 2006
Update: 12/29/2006 Disclaimer: This article is not news. It is humor as a backdrop for high-level analysis. Please do not cite it as a rumor, or even as speculation. The “announcement” is not based on any factual information that has been made available to me. Although I enjoyed the fantasy of a Nintendo/Apple partnership as […]
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
I was excited to hear about Cocoa Duel earlier this week, just as I was racing off to a hotel-based life of zero time for anything nerdy. But I got a moment of inspiration when I realized I could very cheaply adapt an existing project to suit the terms of the contest/charity. Check out my […]
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
A few months ago, Cameron Hayne told me about his nifty AppleScript Shell (ash), which offers an interactive command-line interface to AppleScript, and lets you do some nifty tricks like “tracing” a script’s execution, printing the resulting value for each executed statement. But I just discovered something about ash that’s truly magical. Think “Remote Script […]
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
Phew! I was traveling today so I didn’t get a chance to blog this earlier. MacSanta is an awesome chance to buy Mac software from … literally dozens (27 so far) of independent software companies, all at 20% off. Red Sweater is participating, and all you have to do to score the big discount is […]
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