I’m now a bit over half way done with my 6 month roobasoft v2.0 experiment. The goal was to be able to support my family 100% off my own apps by the end of the 6 months. Although I don’t think my apps will meet that goal, I do think it’s going to be a [...]

This is a sad confession: Since buying my first mac in 2001 I have lived without the ability to move back and forward a word in the terminal. This was something I did all the time when working on Linux. It’s such a nice thing to be able to do. Enough of my crying. It [...]

I’ve used TextExpander off and on a few times now. At first I just used it for a signature (snore). A few weeks ago I realized TextExpander could detach what may have been the last dependence I had on browsers: Bookmark Keywords. I love that I can use bookmark keywords to tell Camino (and OmniWeb [...]

This is for all you F12 invoking Dashboarders out there: Did you know you can take the Dashboard icon in the dock and drag it off? It goes poof, just like any other dock icon. Dashboard doesn’t stop running, this just frees up its slot in the dock.

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 ‘nil’. Just below the definition of NO we see nil: [...]

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 [...]

After I got my Intel iMac I was presented with the problem of needing to work on the same sources from two different machines. At first I thought I’d just keep two copies and use some sort of syncing software. That quickly showed itself to be problematic and I aborted that plan. Next I tried [...]

Having just re-installed OS X there were some settings I was accustomed to that I had to find and reset. The hardest for me to find was the ability to tab to controls other than text boxes and lists. I remember this was an OS X settings I turned on a long time ago, I [...]

rooVid 1.0 beta 1 was released today. In short, rooVid makes it easy to take one video and convert it for multiple purposes. I use rooVid [1] to convert family movies I edit in iMovie and export them in two different formats for the web, one in h.264 the other in MPEG-4. I also export [...]

I often have an external display attached to my PowerBook. Just recently I wished my “primary” display, the one with the menu, was my external display. After about five minutes of poking at the display preferences pane I realized you can drag the little menu from the display it’s on to whichever display you want. [...]