I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
GameTonight now creates a module for Panic’s excellent Status Board iPad app. The URL is simple, add ‘/statusboard’ to any metro…
I’ve just released an initial beta of Threads, a WordPress plugin I’ve been working on for about a year. The idea is simple: show posts…
Tweetie 2 has hit the twittersphere to universal praise and rejoicing. I have to admit it was one of the first app upgrades I’ve been excited to install in a while. After playing with it for a little while, I can say that it’s a great upgrade, more polished, lots of great new features that…
As I briefly noted on Twitter, I will typically install everything fresh when setting up a new Mac. There are a variety of reasons why I think this is a good idea, but here is one you might not always think of. When you do a fresh install of applications that you use frequently, you…
So far my Address Book sync via Dropbox solution is working well. The only issue I’ve seen so far is having to restart Mail.app to get names and addresses properly paired up from time to time. If you see a weird name/email address combination in Mail.app, a quit and restart of Mail.app should fix it.
I upgraded my work machine to Snow Leopard. I had to jump through some minor hoops to get my dev environment back up and running again, and I’m also finding myself missing two utilities that haven’t been updated yet: iStat Menus and MailTemplate. I was thrilled that updates for MsgFiler, SuperDuper, Pukka and PathFinder were…
I use PwdHash for my passwords – if you aren’t using something like this, you probably should be. I’m sure there will be an update to the PwdHash plugin to make it officially compatible with Firefox 3.5, but until then here are steps to use it on a Mac: Upgrade to Firefox 3.5. Quit Firefox…
Thanks to Adam Tow, I’ve got a newly updated version of SVN Zapper available. This version should be nicely compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.x.
You may have noticed ShareThis loading a lot faster these days. The team has made some great changes under the hood that have enabled better performance and a much snappier response. The widget now pops up immediately, just like ShareThis Classic. I’ve been beta testing the new performance features here for a little while and…
Ok, maybe less “outrage” and more “mild annoyance”. After playing with the iPhone a bit I realized that my BlackBerry would be a bit more useful if I had some apps on it for various one-off features. For example, I thought it would be handy to have a weather app instead of loading up a…
Since the Air is a little light on hard drive space I’ve been a little bit picky about what I install on it. It’s a good way to figure out what your “must have” apps are – this is what made the cut for me: LaunchBar – this is the very first thing I installed.…
I’ve had a rather bumpy relationship with SpanningSync, and as a result several friends have recommended I try BusySync 2.0 beta. I’m very glad they did. BusySync works differently than SpanningSync. Instead of a service, it works directly with Google Calendar with no intermediary service. It does not suffer from any of the issues I…
I’ve pushed a new version of my JS Quicktags out. This is a bug fix release the catches two spots I missed that needed to be tweaked to support multiple textareas.
A new version of my JS Quicktags is now available. This release adds a very nice feature, the ability to attach the Quicktags to multiple textarea elements on a page. This is something I’d planned to add for ages, but never got around to doing so. Many thanks to Greg Heo for sending me his…
After finding the excellent CodeIgniter TextMate Bundle, I’ve switched to TextMate as my editor of choice for my CodeIgniter development. I’ve tried switching to TextMate in the past and there is a lot I like about it, however I always end up back with BBEdit for find/replace and other text manipulation tools. This time though.…
I surrender! I tried to make Google Calendar work the way I want to work, but it just won’t. Instead of fighting against it, I’m reversing course and doing my best to work with it. What I Wanted A little while back, I decided that I needed to start archiving data by year1. I still…
At Crowd Favorite we use Subversion for source control and document distribution and management. Last week, we were reminded just how much we rely on it. We made the move from an outdated server to a more properly equipped one, and also used a more suitable domain and set up SSL and all the stuff…