Crooked Spin

Archive for November, 2007

General

November 30, 2007

E-junkie

I started using E-Junkie for my shopping cart at the beginning of August when Cyndicate was released. For the most part it has been a pretty good experience. I think my customers get a better buying experience and I get some new nice features for little cost.
Set-up was super easy for me since [...]

Computers

November 28, 2007

Zip Quicklook

Nice, a quick look plugin for zips. Now we just need one for disk images.

General

November 22, 2007

HuckChuck

Best. Political. Ad. Ever.

Computers

November 12, 2007

What’s wrong with Spaces

Henry Storyv:
The reason you have multiple spaces is to be able to clearly separate your work. So I could have one desktop for Mail and other communication related activities, one for programming, one for blogging, and one for other tasks such as giving a presentation.

(via John Gruber)
Henry outlines his use-case and the problems with [...]

Programming

November 9, 2007

DockExtras

The Mysteries of iCal, Revealed! (Via Jens Ayton.):

One of the minor yet shiny new features of Mac OS X 10.5 is that iCal’s dock icon now shows the correct date even when iCal is not running. Some assumed this to be hard-coded functionality in the dock, but a few brave souls – well, one, [...]

Programming

November 7, 2007

November Cocoaheads

The November Phoenix Cocoaheads meeting is tomorrow night at 7. This months topic is Cocoa Bindings and I’m going to be giving the presentation. So if you want to see me stumble through a talk, stop on by. =)
Location:
Target Training International
16020 N 77th St
Scottsdale AZ 85260
United States

Programming

November 6, 2007

NSOperation and NSOperationQueue tutorial

Drew McCormack has up what looks to be a great tutorial on the new NSOperation and NSOperationQueue classes for threading in Cocoa. The classes promise to simplify threading and make it easier to implement well behaved, multi-threaded apps.

General

November 5, 2007

Thanks for the warning

You gotta love the utility companies for being so nice and giving helpful warnings. Today I awoke to a flyer on my door from APS (the electric company here) with a notice that they’re upgrading some equipment and the we can expect to have a quick power outage of about 5 minutes. They [...]