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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Relaunch is a nifty application that lends itself toward structuring your time into working “modes.” It lets you save a snapshot of your running applications at any time, and save it for later restoration. So you could keep Relaunch documents around for “Work,” “Composing Music,” etc. It even has a nifty auto-snapshot feature that will […]
Posted in AppleScript, FlexTime, Software Reviews | 3 Comments »
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Replacement passenger side window … $50 Eight minutes sucking glass with the gas-station vacuum … $1 Identical TomTom Go 300 on eBay … $305 Shipping & Handling … $15 Getting your life back to normal after some eff-wad messed it up … priceless! Paying for it with PayPal funny-money instead of VISA … extra-priceless! The […]
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
My summary of C4 includes what I think are the main points from John Gruber’s “HIG is dead” talk. (For those who aren’t famiiliar, HIG stands for Human Interface Guidelines, and is a long-lived and ever-violated prescriptive document from Apple). In that entry, I forced myself to (mostly) reiterate what I took away as the […]
Posted in Apple, Carbon, Cocoa, Programming, Technology, Usability | 24 Comments »
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
I just got home from Chicago. C4 was awesome. Big cheers for Wolf for putting it on and managing the events of weekend. High praise also for his volunteer assistants, who were clearly working hard the whole time. I really couldn’t have predicted just how great the collection of attendees was. I had a great […]
Posted in Carbon, Cocoa, General | 27 Comments »