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10 things I’m thankful for in Leopard

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Since yesterday was Thanksgiving here in the US, I thought I’d share 10 things I’m thankful for in Leopard.

If you don’t unmount a file share before you leave a network, Finder doesn’t lock up liked it used to in Tiger
Safari 3 - so many things to like about it - its faster, improved tab behavior, […]

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1- what’s good and what could be improved for us Mac users

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 came out today. Being a browserista (aka a browser-fanatic), I downloaded and played with it.
It has some interesting new things like a Mac OS X theme that you can download. Here’s a snapshot of Firefox 3 with the default theme on Leopard:

And here’s a snapshot of Firefox 3 with […]

The mysteries of the Mac OS X tab cycle

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

I was working on a reported bug in WebnoteHappy - sometimes you cannot tab everywhere. That is, you can start out with the Source List with the Library and your folders and then you go to the Search Field. From here, you hit tab again and you go the Bookmark List and then […]

iPhone SDK coming in February 2008!

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Steve Jobs on Apple Hot News:
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users.
Some people […]

Red Sweater buys MarsEdit!

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Wow - big news…. Red Sweater bought MarsEdit - the blogging app. Here’s a nice Q&A session about the MarsEdit acqusition with Brent Simmons who developed MarsEdit and Daniel Jalkut who heads up Red Sweater.

Where does iChat keep your buddy icon?

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

So you’ve taken a nice buddy icon of yourself with your iSight in iChat. Now where did iChat stick that picture?
Answer: Home > Library > Images > iChat Recent Pictures
Thanks to Matthew Wanderer and his iChat FAQ for this answer.

iPod Phone spotted in Cingular ad for the BCS championship game?

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

My buddy Rob who makes the cool YouTube app TubeSock was watching the college football (aka BCS) championship last night. He saw this ad from Cingular that might just show the iPod Phone.

Buy today and help sick kids

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Today Happy Apps is participating in a charity event for Child’s Play, which helps sick kids in the hospital out by providing them with toys and games to enjoy. It’s not just me, but several members of the Mac Indie Developer community is participating. (Thanks for putting this together, Mike!) The deal […]

20″ Intel iMac Core 2 Duo svnmark score

Monday, November 27th, 2006

I got a new 20″ Intel iMac last week. It’s a 2.16Ghz Core 2 Duo and its crazy fast compared to my old PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz. As you may know if you’re a loyal reader of this blog that I like svnmark (compiling subversion) because it is a benchmark that directly shows how […]

iMac 24″ = Mac Semi Pro?

Monday, September 11th, 2006

I’m in the market for a new Mac. If you’ve seen the svnmark times, you’ll see that my current PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz is already an order of magnitude slower than the current Intel models. The top of the lines are the Mac Pros, but I wonder if they’re a bit too much. […]