Crooked Spin

Computers

January 27, 2008

Machine Learning

In the latest episode of The Mac Developer Roundtable, Andy Matuschak talks about machine learning as a new direction for user interfaces. One of the examples he gives of a good use of it would to tell him in the morning which of the 200 unread articles he should read in the few minutes [...]

Computers

January 19, 2008

Freedom Isn’t Free

A bomb dropped last week: NetNewsWire is now free. Well, free if you don’t mind giving up you’re privacy. Naturally NewsGator isn’t pushing that fact. It’s buried under all of the PR spin about making money off of their enterprise products and what is being said is being spun some more to make it sound [...]

Computers

December 23, 2007

Cynical Peak MacSanta

All Cynical Peak Software is 20% off today (December 23th) and 10% for the rest of the month due to MacSanta visiting all the good mac users. Now’s you’re chance to get the best deal we’ve ever offered on Cyndicate and Scorecard. Use the code MACSANTA07 for today’s deal and MACSANTA07TEN for remainder [...]

Computers

December 21, 2007

Cyndicate 1.1 released!

Cyndicate 1.1 is now available for download from either Cyncial Peak’s website or running Cyndicate’s updater. As with all our point releases, this is a free update for all Cyndicate users. This release is mainly bug fixes with a few nice little features added in like the ability to set what count the dock [...]

Programming

December 15, 2007

Changes

Developers, keep an eye out for Changes. I saw a demo of it last night and I think most of you are going to want it. It’s really cool.

Computers

December 10, 2007

Leopard Printing Setup

The printer setup utility in Leopard can be a bit frustrating to use. I have a headache right now from it. I’m a low volume printer. Generally I only print out reference material when I’m working on something new that I’m unfamiliar with. Because of that, I hadn’t bothered to set [...]

Computers

December 5, 2007

Why Use a Mac Reason 497

From the beta list of a new Windows product:

If some of you haven’t noticed, there is a problem with the installer configuration for the Beta 2 installer which makes it NOT completely remove/replace/uninstall the old version. Due to this bug in the installer configuration, you MUST do a manual uninstall from the Add/Remove applications panel [...]

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.