Archive for May, 2006

Getting Default Application Icon as NSImage

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

To get the icon that represents an application with no custom icon (default application icon) just call: [NSImage imageNamed:@“NSDefaultApplicationIcon”];

You Can Pass ‘NO’ as a NSNumber, But You Probably Don’t Want To

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

When using Core Data, Boolean values as an attribute are represented using NSNumber. That’s all fine and good, but it requires you to use [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES|NO] when you set the value. NO is defined as: #define NO (BOOL)0 we have an issue. 0 is also […]

Potion Factory’s Voice Candy

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

The guys at Potion Factory have a great looking app in Podcast Maker. They’ve recently added Voice Candy to their list of applications. Besides being another beautiful app, what is Voice Candy? Straight from their site, it reads: Voice Candy is a fun and useful recorder for your Mac. You get 8 different effects to play with. […]

Use FeedBurner Without Changing Feed URL (w/ WordPress)

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Up until recently I had been using a poor man’s FeedBurner. I wanted to use FeedBurner, but requiring a change to my feed URL wasn’t attractive. Enter WordPress FeedBurner Plugin. This is a slick plugin that uses apache’s mod_rewrite to allow you to use FeedBurner without handing out a new feed URL. The plugin is super friendly […]

Luis Releases WebnoteHappy 1.0 - Give it a Whirl

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Sometime in the wee hours of the morning, Luis released 1.0 of WebnoteHappy. As a beta tester for WebnoteHappy I’ve been using it for some months now and find it useful daily. My quote on WebnoteHappy’s page reads: Brian Cooke of roobasoft says “I’m addicted to switching browsers. WebnoteHappy enables my addiction by allowing me to […]

Boise Bound

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Things will be quieter than usual here. My family (one wife, one 2.5 year old and one 8 month old) and I are moving from NH to Boise, Idaho. A truck picks up our stuff tomorrow and then we start driving out in our mini-van. We plan to arrive in Idaho on Tuesday, […]


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