From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Quick Thoughts on the Kindle 3… I mean Nook

October 28, 2009

My first thought after watching the introductory video was B&N should have just named the Nook the Kindle 3. It’s as if they reverse-engineered a Kindle, added the ten most requested features, and then slapped a different name on it.

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An AppleScript Function to Zero Pad a Value

October 22, 2009

An AppleScript function to zero-pad integers.

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WordPress Security Update Available

October 21, 2009

As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible and during this process we have identified a number of security hardening changes that we thought were worth back-porting to the [...]

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Advanced Wire Management

October 21, 2009

I’ve written previously about Minimal Mac, but I just had to mention it again because of some great posts from the site of late on wire management.

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Quick Thoughts on Today’s Apple Product Announcements – 10/20/09

October 20, 2009

Thoughts on the latest Apple product announcements.

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Testing for Missing Value in AppleScript

October 14, 2009

The other day I got temporarily stuck on an AppleScript I’ve been tinkering with because I could not figure out how to test for what I perceived as a “null” value. I had set a variable to a property of a class and was getting the result “missing value”. Here’s how I solved it.

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Brad Ellis on Designing the NetNewsWire 3.2 Icon

October 9, 2009

Neat post by Brad Ellis on the process he went through to design the icon for NetNewsWire 3.2. Check it out.

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Great Examples of TaskPaper AppleScripts

October 9, 2009

I’ve been taking a look at TaskPaper of late and stumbled across this page on their company wiki. This is a gem. It’s like an AppleScript Dictionary on steroids for the application.

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VMWare 3 Promises Improved Performance

October 7, 2009

I have been using VMWare Fusion fairly regularly for the last 18 months or so, but I’ve never loved it. I consistently run into seemingly random bottlenecks and slowdowns in system performance despite having tried a number of tricks to improve VM performance and reallocate memory. My fingers are crossed that this update will address these issues.

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Thinking in AppleScript

October 7, 2009

am starting to “think in AppleScript”. I question pretty much anything that I do that seems remotely time intensive or rote and ask myself, “can you script that?” I am adding scripts to my “ideas list” faster than I’m able to write them at the moment.

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