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Child’s Play Day

Posted on December 6, 2006 by schwa

Mike Zornek, friend, fellow #macsb-er and Mac entrepreneur is organising Child’s Play Day. Ironcoder is hosting a page with information on the event: http://ironcoder.org/blog/childs-play-day/ (Thanks to Mere Mortal Software for the badge icon)

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iSight Trick NOT a Security Flaw

Posted on November 14, 2006 by schwa

Over the last couple of days there have been a plethora of posts about web pages with embedded QuickTime movies accessing a Mac’s iSight camera. Surrounding these posts have been many comments from people worried about the security implications of … Continue reading →

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Second Hand Smoke

Posted on October 30, 2006 by schwa

So ‘Disco‘ (you know, that Disc burning program that does a fraction of what Disk Utility does but actually costs money) is now available as a public beta. One of the most controversial “features” of the program is the fact … Continue reading →

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I would like to thank…

Posted on October 29, 2006 by schwa

Cripes. I just won Ironcoder. I now join the esteemed ranks previous winners: Lucas Eckels, Gus Mueller and Mark Dalyrmple. A big thank-you to Mark for hosting and judging Ironcoder. As we’ve learnt over the previous contests, judging Ironcoder is … Continue reading →

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FlexTime 1.0 finished

Posted on August 17, 2006 by schwa

Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater infamy has released FlexTime, a Mac OS X timer application. Of interest to me is that FlexTime might well be the first released Mac OS X application to make used of my Toxic Progress Indicator … Continue reading →

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Tattoo Removal for Cory

Posted on June 29, 2006 by schwa

Cory Doctorow, of boingboing fame and a longtime Apple Mac user, is switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu Linux. He also has an Apple logo tattooed on his right bicep. I’d like to help Cory remove what will surely … Continue reading →

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iMeem

Posted on January 27, 2006 by schwa

I wasn’t really impressed with the new iMeem buzzword enabled chat application until a bunch of us from #macsb poked under its hood and saw Mono sitting there. It looks like the first non-trivial (correct me if I’m wrong) Mono … Continue reading →

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Software that SUCKS (but doesn’t have to)

Posted on January 26, 2006 by schwa

This is a list of software that is otherwise extremely useful but is let down by a really poor installation procedure. I’ll be updating the list as I come across more software that almost gets it but lets it self … Continue reading →

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iRoster 1.0b12

Posted on September 9, 2005 by schwa

Another year, another iRoster release. You thought development on iRoster was dead. Think again! This version adds more features than ever before and fixes more bugs then you would believe. Well – actually it runs on 10.4 now and the … Continue reading →

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Upgraded to ExpressionEngine 1.3

Posted on July 6, 2005 by schwa

I’ve upgraded to ExpressionEngine 1.3. Painless upgrade so far. Capchas in comments don’t work (but that might be because of my server relocation last week). I’ve disabled capchas and enabled comment moderation (I rarely get comments anyway – linkings on … Continue reading →

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