A short while ago I wrote about my disappointment with the O’Reilly iPhone apps. The other day I noticed that three of the four titles I originally bought had an update. I’ve finally had time to have a look at them and I have to say that I’m pleasantly surprised. The 1.1 versions are infinitely [...]
Tag Archives: Apps
Things Migrator 2
December 14, 2009 – 14:23
I noticed that my little app for migrating your data from Things to The Hit List still gets some hits. I haven’t really looked at it for ages, but I wasn’t terribly surprised to see that it’s broken under Snow Leopard. I decided to fix it, expecting AppleScript projects in Xcode to work pretty much [...]
Open letter to O’Reilly : Your iPhone apps suck
December 12, 2009 – 12:07
Update 2: New versions of several of these apps have been released. Things are a lot better. Update:I’ve had feedback on this post from O’Reilly both by email and in the comments. Both Andrew and the other O’Reilly representative I’ve been in contact with seem sincere when they say that these apps will be updated [...]
Migrate from Things to The Hit List
May 14, 2009 – 12:05
Edit: I updated the app to work on Snow Leopard. Go here to get the app or source code. So this all started out with me pining for the release of the fabled iPhone version of The Hit List. I started out just wanting to create a script that would let me use Things Touch [...]
Adobe Updodger
April 21, 2009 – 18:12
Do you use any Adobe products? Tell me if this sounds familiar: “Oh hai! I need to update some totally unrelated stuff on your machine! You know, some camera raw stuff or InDesign whatchamacallits, so I’m just going to force you to quit all your browsers, because lordy lordy who knows what might happen if [...]
The MacHeist Unlock Scheme
April 4, 2009 – 11:28
If you’re a Mac user chances are good you already know about MacHeist. In summary MacHeist is a bundle of Mac apps sold at a very ridiculously attractive price. Usually if only one or two apps in the bundle appeal to you you already save money by buying the bundle. This is all well and [...]
Some Path Finder AppleScripts
March 6, 2009 – 11:09
How’s that for a TitleCased title? So I’ve been checking out Path Finder again. The thing with Path Finder is that it’s very nearly awesome, but there are a few things that bug the hell out of me. I may or may not come back to the most irritating shortcomings in a later post, but [...]
iPhone + DataCase = Lecture notes bliss
November 12, 2008 – 17:04
Lately I’ve been teaching a 5 week crash course in ActionScript 3. The first few classes were pretty basic stuff, so ad libbing the whole thing wasn’t too much of a problem. However, as the students got ready for increasingly advanced stuff I had to come up with increasingly advanced projects, and in order to [...]
