Archive for December, 2003

Loving and Hating Objective C

Tuesday, December 16th, 2003

Jonathan Rentzsch has an interesting blog posting listing the top 10 things he loves about Objective C and the top 15 things that he hates about Objective C. If you are at all interested in Objective C, check it out.

I would have to say that categories is my favorite Objective C feature. In [...]

Yahoo's new Anti-SPAM idea

Friday, December 5th, 2003

While it seems that it will take a long time before something like this is implemented, Yahoo announced today that it is coming up with a new way to verify the origin of all email. While, the concept isn’t necessarily new, the implementation would be. Basically, they want to require all mail servers [...]

PhotoStickies and Tailer+

Thursday, December 4th, 2003

In the past couple of days I have discovered 2 pretty cool Shareware/Freeware applications for MacOS X. Short descriptions follow along with a screenshot.

The first is a freeware application called PhotoStickies by Christian Grunenberg. PhotoStickies allows you to show images in borderless windows. You can open either a local image or a [...]

Christmas Lights

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003

Well, Katrina and I finished putting up Christmas Lights on our house for the holidays. I took a picture a couple of nights ago. You can check it out here. The blue river is on top of where we have a rock river by day. Overall, we put up 3,765 lights [...]

Matt Barger's Blog

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003

Matt Barger just started his fifth attempt of having a blog. I met Matt a the O’Reilly MacOS X Conference, and his session, Give Your iBook a REST, had some excellent insight into how we currently organize our personal data and how personal data could be organized in the future. You can download [...]

XRG 0.4.0 Release Summary

Monday, December 1st, 2003

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I was going to post this sooner, but I got caught up in the holiday weekend.

Looking at the web stats, this release of XRG was pretty successful. The first two days are always the busiest, mostly because software sites like VersionTracker and MacUpdate will post [...]