About a month ago, Luis took a week off from his day job to work on WebnoteHappy full time. During that week he started a series of blog posts on his blog, MacHappy, under the category, The Life (see df). Luis and I have become good friends and are in similar mac dev boats (I’m [...]

Last we heard, my fourth iPod was on its way. Well, that one has been replaced and now number 5 is here. What happened to number 4? Things were looking good. I received it on a Saturday morning and it still had some charge in it. I plugged it in, synced it and let it [...]

NSString has a great little method prototyped as – (id)propertyList What does it do? To quote the docs: Parses the receiver as a text representation of a property list, returning an NSString, NSData, NSArray, or NSDictionary object, according to the topmost element. If you started staring at CFPropertyList(…) functions, just trying to figure out how [...]

My curiosity often costs me a lot of time. My most recent expense started when I subscribed to the coding monkeys blog and read their post about how SubEthaEdit (what a great icon) fully supports being an external editor for Xcode. I don’t plan to collaborate, but I had to try it. It’s kind of [...]

I finally got sick of changing MyCompanyName in my new source files. To change MyCompanyName to something useful, you need to edit the ORGANIZATIONNAME in the com.apple.Xcode prefs. I used the ‘defaults write’ method described here, which looks like this: defaults write com.apple.Xcode PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions \ ‘{ “ORGANIZATIONNAME” = “YourCompanyName”;}’ Surprisingly, I had to quit and [...]

Chax allows you to add tabs to iChat. I switch back and forth between Adium and iChat. Now that I can coerce iChat to use tabs, I may be settling into iChat for a bit longer than I normally stay. [via MGG] update: if you want the tabs (you do) you’ll need the 1.4 beta. [...]

I’m in debt to a lot of people for their help with rooVid. For some, the help was directly pointed at rooVid via questions I asked or suggestions made. For countless others it was via the wonderful blessing that is the web. One of the things I get a kick out of is when I [...]

I love finding apps that solve an annoyance that I’ve been trying to solve with other tools. The two annoyances that I’ve just found a solution for are: My downloads folder, “InBox”, gets messy…real quick. It’s hard for me to find things I need in my receipts folder. Previous solutions to these problems were: In [...]

I both mirror my drive with SuperDuper! and I backup some miscellaneous stuff using Apple’s Backup. One of the miscellaneous things I backup with Backup is my address book. I also sync my address book with .mac such that my PowerBook, my iMac and my mini for work all have the things I need right [...]

My first app is out in the wild as a 1.0 “Lite” release. The first I spoke to anyone about rooVid was to my wife. It was the Saturday after Thanksgiving and we were on our way to pickup our Christmas tree. Four months-ish later and rooVid Lite is available for public consumption. Much has [...]