Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3 ed)

It would seem Aaron Hillegass’ latest revision of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is about to hit the shelves. The available date seems to have moved up a few days as well.

If your looking for…

An exhaustive Cocoa reference
an excellent tutorial book for Objective-C

a great introduction to Cocoa programming, buy this book!

Update on Black Crowes

I was never really all that into the Crowes. Not to say I don’t like the band, but they don’t make my Favorites playlist very often. They absolutely ROCK!!! (live)

Sadly, I didn’t notice that my ticket stub was in fact a $10 gambling voucher until it was to late to cash it in for $10 (24hr window). Should I attend another concert at RiverWind, I’ll be sure to test this one out. Can you say $10 dollar rebate? :)

Black Crowes

8:00 tonight, the Black Crowes will be in Norman, OK. Tickets are way too expensive, so only go if you’re a big fan that somehow missed the announcement until now.

More info at Riverwind.com.

National Council of Gambling Problems website if you already know where the casino is located.

technorati

I just linked my site to technorati. Hopefully the process will be over shortly.

Add to Technorati Favorites

Delicious POS

Point Of Sale! Get your mind out of the gutter!)

I want a stand-alone bar code scanner App for use in Checkout 2.0.
Cheap barcode scanners start at more than a $100.
So the price could be $40-80, and customers would still bite.

Wireless scanners start at more than a thousand $$$$.
A Cocoa Touch barcode scanner app could sell like hotcakes.

Oh, and I want a camera in the iPod Touch, Why wasn’t it there in the first place!?

It sounds as though Delicious Library 2.0 will retail for $40, and Delicious Library Pro for $80.
Priced right, Delicious POS wouldn’t cannibalize Delicious Library 2.0 sales.

RSS in Plain English

A great intro video to RSS

at commoncraft.com

Alex Speaks Up

Automator Workflow.zip

Here’s a quick rundown of the actions included.

Get Contents of Clipboard
Text to Audio File
Import Audio Files
Set Info of iTunes Songs
Find Finder Items [~/Desktop/.aiff]
Move Finder Items to Trash

Select & copy the text you want, wait a few and enjoy!

If you Don’t already have it, download Join Together from Doug’s Applescipts. This puts everything in a nice neat little package.

Yeah, I know. It’s a repost, but I have only one more image to remove now!

Have fun!

it’s a Delish beta

A del.icio.us client that displays previews of your tagged web pages.

The interface is drop dead simple and attractive. The first time I ran Delish, I was prompted to enter my del.icio.us account info. Then Delish started creating great looking webpage thumbnails.

A lot a pages don’t ever get their thumbnail. This I’m sure will be addressed in future versions of Delish. It’s only in beta 4 after all. It did have me scratching my head for a moment. Or maybe I just need some Selson Blue.

Used in conjunction with Pukka, this really ties things together. Making del.icio.us seem like just another part of my Mac, not some distant cloud. I also realized how badly I need to trim and sort my tags.

So check it out. Should you find yourself using it go click that “i use this” button.

MacBook Heir to 12″

I work at an Apple VAR. While at work, I’ve noticed that 12″ PowerBook G4 owners consistently pick up the MacBook Air within 3 minutes of entering the store. The only word for the look in their eyes is lust. I like to jokingly refer to the 12″ as the original Air.

There are a number of comments I hear on a regular basis.
Here they are in order of frequency

It’s so tiny! - with a look of awe
It’s beautiful! - but…

But it has no optical drive - Several time a day
It looks really fragile
Too Expensive - Almost every time anyone looks at it
It’s like a really fancy looking MacBook
How much for the SSD version!?
No FireWire - Just a hand full of times, and it made me smile

Bleh! Here’s a new one that I really appreciated.

2 GB max Ram? Why not 4GB!? - I heard it for the first time today

4GB and no upgrade path is just fine for a machine that people will use many years. Just like those wide eyed 12″ PowerBook owners. Those machines are 2-5 years old, and most of them are early revisions.

I hope to get my wish sometime in 2009.

Ninja Gaiden - Dragon Sword

Some people say it’s to short. Maybe there right, but I disagree. This Sword cuts up screen protectors as though they were old shoes. You will experience E Honda syndrome, then you will learn the way of the sword. This game would have been an also ran on ANY other system, with the possible exception of the Wii.
4 stars

Eagles of Death Metal

If you love Queens of the Stoneage, you will wanna doggie style these 2 albums! Dissonant, jacked, fast, furious and beautiful. This music will make your hips move despite that nagging dysplasia.

Shake some tail feather baby.

5 stars, because crap that gets less than 4 stars will not appear on this page.

#1 Feature Request for Safari

In MenuBar

… File Edit … Plugins Develop Window Help

In Preferences…

… RSS AutoFill Security Advanced Plugins

Name Unavailable?

http://whocalled.us/

Find out just who’s calling, and post new offenders!

Creating rich Internet applications on Linux with WebKit

Gifts for my Mac!D

$99 ADC Student
$40 OmniFocus
$22 Hazel 2
$50 Parallels 3
$15 Twitterific
$30 Mars Edit
$30 Radio Shift
$13 Awaken
$30 NetNewsWire
$29 CandyBar

KeyCommand - OmniFocus Essentials

Quick Entry ⌥⌘SpaceBar

This command is easily remapped via
Preferences… ⌘,

I’ve changed mine to Command Control SpaceBar

⌘1 Planning Mode
⌘2 Context Mode
⌃⌘1 Inbox

⌘K Clean Up

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