iOS and Mac developer
Daniel Brusilovsky will be recording the 100th episode of Apple Universe live during Macworld Expo next week. I’ll be there and I’ll be blogging live. I talked to Daniel a few times today and he has some very exciting news.
The live recording will take place on Tuesday, January 15 from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. at:
Zeum
221 4th St
San Francisco, California 94103
More information at upcoming.org.
Apple watchers are trying to guess the meaning of “There’s something in the air” on Apple’s tantalizing Macworld banners. Here are some possibilities.
A little bird just tweeted that the macbook nano is coming.
ars technica posted this shot of the first banner for Macworld. I wonder what it could be… wireless movie rentals directly from the AppleTV?
I noticed today that MacMegasite now has 34526 subscribers to the newsfeed, a sudden jump from the usual 18000-19000.
FeedBurner’s statistics page confirms the sudden jump.
This happened just after NewsGator announced that NetNewsWire is now free, and MacMegasite happens to be one of the default feeds. Thanks Brent! I owe you a beer.
I’ve used NetNewsWire for a long time, but I recently started using Google Reader instead for the sharing & suggestion features. Unfortunately the two don’t sync, so switching between them is a bother.
In light of today’s announcement, and because I always found NetNewsWire faster & more convenient than reading news online, I switched back to NNW. I did one last read in Google Reader, and then marked everything read in NNW.
I still want to be able to share items in Google Reader, though, so I came up with a partial work-around.
When I add an item to my clippings in NetNewsWire, it’s shared publicly at NewsGator Online and made avaialble as an RSS feed. I subscribe to that feed in Google Reader and put it in its own folder which I made public. The results can be seen here.
Although Google Reader doesn’t provide a combined feed for all of my friend’s feeds, I can still subscribe to them individually.
Macworld Expo starts one week from today, so the anticipation & rumors have reached a fever pitch. Apple’s announcement of new Mac Pro & Xserve models today certainly means they have something much bigger to announce in the keynote.
I think it’s a pretty safe bet that Apple will introduce a subnotebook, possibly with a touchscreen.
I’m also pretty sure Apple will officially kill the hard drive based iPod. Flash memory is now available in 64G and larger sizes, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see an iPhone or iPod Touch with 32G or 64G of flash storage.
Other likely announcements: Blu-Ray drives in laptops, iMacs, and Mac Pros; a new much more capable Apple-TV, possibly with Blu-Ray, a web browser, and DVR capability; new displays with built-in iSight; and of course movie rentals in iTunes.
One of our customers was having a strange installation problem after upgrading their Mac from 10.4 to 10.5. It turns out they reformatted the drive as a case-sensitive file system. During the installation, a utility gets downloaded from the server. The installation process specifies a pathname to execute that utility, which doesn’t match the case of the actual filename.
We’re in good company, though. A lot of applications including Photoshop CS3 won’t install on a case sensitive volume.
For a long time I was unable to view ustream.tv on my MacBook Pro, even though I have the latest version of Flash player and other sites work OK.
I noticed that I had local storage disabled in the Flash Player settings. Enabling it fixed the problem.
Skitch is one of my favorite Mac utilities. It lets you capture an image (either a screen grab or iSight snap), add markup such as text & arrows, and share it on Flickr, .mac, or Skitch.com. I’ve been using it instead of the OS X’s built-in screenshot.
Until now, you could only share individual images by providing the URL. Now, you can specify whether an image should be public, private, or hidden. The default, ‘secret URL’ still lets you share an image, as I have done here, but it won’t appear on your profile page. Any images you specify as public will appear on your public page.
My profile is at http://skitch.com/mike3k/.
I’ve been looking for a GTD application I would actually use regularly for a long time. I want something quick & simple, that isn’t too intrusive, yet lets me add tasks and get reminders any time. Finally I’ve found two that seem very promising.
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