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BoliMonitor is a very simple MacOS X program I wrote when the due date for our daughter was approaching, for my wife to keep track of contraction durations and intervals. In the end, the program went unused because our daughter was born through a medically-indicated C-section, but it’s functional, so here it is.
Just press the [...]

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Always looking for shinier toys for my system, I came across the Shiira web browser for MacOS X. It looks very nice, it is very fast, and has a bundle of nice features, including built-in search keywords, RSS reading and direct import and display of Firefox and Safari bookmarks. Very nice!

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CopperExport 0.4.0 is out! Default size saving, remove photos from the export dialog, a universal binary, and a nice installer, among other goodness. Get it while it’s fresh!

Technorati Tags: copperexport, mac, photography

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I’ve been using Safari on my Mac since Tiger came out, but with Firefox 1.5 being released, I’ve decided to give it another try (I use Firefox on Linux, but I haven’t been very happy with it on the Mac before). It properly imported my Safari bookmarks, settings and even the cookies! Quite impressive. the [...]

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Since Tiger came out, I’ve been using Safari’s RSS reader, which I really like. Today I learned about Vienna, an open-source RSS reader. You can define folders and smart folders of feeds, and in general looks very nice. I’m giving it a try, maybe it’ll stick, and maybe I can then go back to Firefox [...]

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43 Folders: More Quicksilver Power Tips: Yet more nice QuickSilver tips from Merlin @ 43Folders. I had always wondered why the clipboard history didn’t have a keyboard shortcut (the shelf does) – it had never occurred to me that you could assign them to triggers! Good stuff.

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Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006: so, the big rumor for the last week was true. It doesn’t bother me too much, as long as Apple keeps their ability to make things “just work”. Of course, even if Apple tries to make OSX run only on Apple Intel machines, I’m sure we’ll see [...]

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Xcode is, for the most part, a fine IDE. But there are many things lacking. If you compare with Eclipse, for example, one of the big lacking aspects is refactoring.
Specific example: renaming a class is incredibly painful in Xcode. In Eclipse, you can rename a class and the file will be renamed, all the declarations [...]

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I’ve been working on some updates for the next version of CopperExport. Here’s my current list of possible improvements:
- (partially done) Populate thumbnail list “live”, after displaying the export dialog.
- Offer some preset options for resizing (640×480, 800×600, 1024×768) (suggested by Peter Polz)
- (done) In the description of a new album, be able to enter [...]

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I’m a freak for neat tools and tricks, and one of them is launchers on the Mac. A long time ago I used (and even bought) LaunchBar, then discovered Butler, and had been very happy with it. Then, recently, through 43 Folders, I rediscovered QuickSilver, which I tried some time ago, but was still too [...]

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