Seth Dillingham posts a bit about Twitteriffic, a Twitter client I use pretty much all the time. He refers to it as making his one-man office “feel a bit like I’m working in a big room full of friends and other developers”. I couldn’t agree more.
Twitteriffic is free to use if you don’t mind Deck ads coming through the Twitter stream once an hour. Deck ads are pretty classy and unobtrusive. If you don’t want the ads to show up, buy Twitteriffic for $14.95. Sounds like a nice comprimise.
Some naughty person, eagerly anticipating coal in his stocking next year, posted a hack that strips out the ads. In response I just registered my copy. If you use Twitteriffic, I suggest you follow our lead and do the same.
It had been awhile since I’d visited the Apple Store Genius Bar until, earlier this month, I had to take my laptop in for repair.
I bought my MacBook Pro over a year and a half ago in anticipation of needing a powerful laptop that could run both Mac and Windows and be a reliable computer for work. It was one of the first Macbook Pros that Apple produced. I hear a lot of people say when new models come out they are a little gun-shy and want to wait a few revisions before purchasing. I ignored that “wisdom” and bought this computer anyway, and it’s run pretty much flawlessly the entire time.
That is, until about a month ago when it started making some weird noises. The noises started fairly quietly and were intermittent, but over a period of a week or two they escalated into this: Fan Racket (mp3). Eek!
Because the noise wasn’t completely constant I broke out the microphone and recorded it. The computer is still under warranty so I knew getting it repaired was no …
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I tread this fine line in my life. I’m just geeky enough to do lots of programming and live in that world a lot. But I’m just enough a designer to choose user experience over low-level pragmatism. This gets me in trouble sometimes and makes for some hard decisions.
I’ve been wanting to use Subversion for more of my digital bits and pieces these days. I use that a lot for projects I’m working on. It’s fantastic, especially when working in a team. I can’t imagine working without it.
The problem: it works only if you use it with text files or binary files. To be fair, pretty much any file you use in programming projects falls under one of these categories. If you want to use SVN for anything else, you’re pretty much out of luck.
This seems to be a growing problem as more and more programs are creating files that fall under the category of “packages”, which are folders that OS X treats a little differently. Anything iWork (Numbers, Pages, & Keynote) products, is a package. So are Garageband files, and even most actual …
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Great tip about which I had no clue. To my PC-using friends, yes, it’s that easy to make PDFs over here; and no, he didn’t have to install some weird print driver to do that.
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