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Brent Simmons, the author of NetNewsWire has set up a Yahoo Groups mailing list for people interested in setting up their own Mac software company. Since I’m very interested in starting my own shareware company, I signed up for the list. Hopefully the list will generate a strong community of smaller software developers.

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Bob Snow, a contributing editor for O’Grady’s Powerpage, posted a short article on a Digital Entertainment Hub that he thinks Apple should release.

I’ve been interested in setting up something like this for a long time. There are plenty of custom made PC’s that are built into cases that would work well in an entertainment [...]

At work, I noticed one of our client’s mail server relaying SPAM. This was pretty odd as I just upgraded their system to the latest version of Postfix two weeks ago. I poked around a bit to find out how the mail was being relayed, and it ended up that Apache, which was [...]

I was looking around today for an ssh client for my Palm Tungsten T, and I came across a very nifty client called TuSSH. So far, it’s been excellent as an ssh client. It’s very easy to use, offers a high resolution display that fits almost a full 80 characters across a single [...]

Well, I decided it was time to add a little more color to my blog. I’ll probably be making some more smaller adjustments as time goes on, but I think this will be a good start for now. Anyway, hope you like it. We now return you to our normally scheduled programming…

I went to the Grand Opening of the Tucson Apple Store this morning. It was a lot of fun, and I took some pictures while I was there. You can check them out here. I couldn’t get out of there without spending some money. I ended up buying Katrina [...]

Gus Mueller has posted some really cool music he has created with Apple’s GarageBand software. His latest was posted today. Here are a couple of his past postings.

Keep pumping out the cool tunes Gus!

Rich Wareham released Desktop Manager 0.5.0 today. Here’s a quick list of new features.

New plugin-based system — almost all user-visible functionality is implemented by plugins.
New preferences pane — more like System Preferences.
Active screen edges — configurable, switching may be triggered by moving to screen edge.
Desktop-based pager — An often reqested feature. A desktop pager [...]

During the past couple of weeks, I have been trying to add functionality to XRG that breaks beyond the bounds of the application itself. One area that I’ve finished is adding contextual menu’s for each graph with additional statistics and links to other applications and web sites. For the weather module, I wanted [...]

MacShareware.net today released an SDK to help save Mac software developers time when releasing their applications. If you have released a piece of software before, you know it is a ton of work. I usually spend a couple of hours writing something up, and posting it to all kinds of web sites. [...]