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Today 1.5 Released

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:27:17 -0600

Today 1.5 is now out. It’s the biggest update since 1.0 back in the spring and features alarms, past due notifications and Growl support. If you have a Weblog, Twitter or just a group of Mac using friends, please do share the new with them.

If you are a blogger and want to write a review of Today on your site, get in touch and I’ll get you an NFR license.

"Stop Looking for Occasions to Be Offended: If you have enough faith in your own beliefs, you’ll find..."

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:56:00 -0600

“Stop Looking for Occasions to Be Offended: If you have enough faith in your own beliefs, you’ll find that it’s impossible to be offended by the beliefs and conduct of others…You are the way you are, and so are those around you. Most likely they will never be just like you. So stop expecting those who are different to be what you think they should be. It’s never going to happen.”

- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Today 1.5 RC1

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:28:02 -0600

Today 1.5 RC1: I’ve published RC1 of Today 1.5. If you want to check out the new features such as alarms, Growl integration, etc give it a shot. It’s a semi-public beta, but please don’t publish it on any news sites, update sites or blog about it. It’s not fully cooked just yet.

Plugged In 09 - Fall Video Games

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:40:01 -0600

Plugged In 09 - Fall Video Games: My WNIN radio show keeps getting better. Give it a listen.

Top 10 most annoying phrases

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:13:33 -0600

Top 10 most annoying phrases

Season 6 was incredibly bad after such a strong start, but this...

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:31:34 -0600

Season 6 was incredibly bad after such a strong start, but this trailer has me pumped for another season. I love pissed off Jack Bauer.

Today 1.5 Beta 2

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:32:56 -0600

Today 1.5 Beta 2: I’ve published beta 2 of Today 1.5 to my Satisfaction forum for further testing. If you’d like to test out the new features, check it out.

I am absolutely obsessed with the new MTV Music Web site. More...

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:40:52 -0600

I am absolutely obsessed with the new MTV Music Web site. More than just the actual video archives is the old VMA performances that are available. This Oasis performance is probably one of my favorite live performances ever. Noel Gallagher rocks a Union Jack guitar like no one else.

Today 1.3.2 Released

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:11:44 -0500

Today 1.3.1 (and an unfortunate 1.3.2) have been released. The major change is a fix that will resolve an issue with the time change over the weekend not causing the date browser to be off by a day for the next week or so.

Grab the update via Sparkle or at the Today Web site

2008 MacBook Pro For Sale

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:54:32 -0500

I’ve preordered one of the new 15” MacBook Pro’s from Amazon, so I am now selling my 6 month old 15”. Here’s the specs:

2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
4GB RAM
250GB RAM
GeForce 8600M GT 512MB Video
Glossy Display
802.11n Wireless & Bluetooth
Mac OS X Leopard
iLife 08
Unopened Extra Battery
Under warranty until March, and you can still purchase AppleCare

Rather than sticking a firm price on it, I’m going to ask you to make me a reasonable offer. If you’d like to put an offer on the table, shoot me an email. I’d imagine shipping being around $40 or $50 with insurance (I have all my stuff professionally packaged as a PostNet store).

I’ll be taking offers until Monday at which point I’ll sell it to the highest, reasonable bid.

Plugged In Episode 04

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:28:49 -0500

Plugged In Episode 04:

This week’s Plugged In is my best yet I think. I’m finally starting to get more comfortable behind the mic and the content is great. I bring on Brian Selby of Selby Home Theatre here in Evansville to discuss the basics of buying an HDTV. Well worth a listen if you want to know what’s out now and what’s coming.

As always, if you have feedback or constructive criticism for the show, let me know. I am trying to make a show that is appealing to my nerdier friends as well as a general audience.

"Other developers have harsher words. “I am starting to not believe in the iPhone platform, and..."

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:32:31 -0500

“Other developers have harsher words. “I am starting to not believe in the iPhone platform, and that is scary because I’m sure I’m not the only developer,” said Justin Williams of Second Gear. “Pissing off the people that grow your product is not the most sound business move, yet Apple seems to turn the NDA screw further and further,” he told Ars.”

- Apple’s App Store schizophrenia driving developers crazy

I guess I was a bit harsh, but after the NDA-ing of the rejection letters, I am fed up.

Looks like Apple is slowly improving the review process on...

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:21:01 -0500

Looks like Apple is slowly improving the review process on AppStore. Perhaps this will eliminate the lame practice of rating based on price rather than functionality.

Plugged In: September 25, 2008

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:32:38 -0500

Plugged In: September 25, 2008:

This week’s Plugged In is now up for download and on the Podcast feed. This week features a conversation with Martin McKeay of the Network Security Blog about the Sarah Palin email hack and Mark Edward Soper, author of Windows Vista Exposed, with some Vista Tips & Tricks.

I think it’s my best show yet. Still not perfect, but progress is being made.

Nerd Book Bundles For Sale

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:09:00 -0500

As part of my moving sale/discardia session, I’m pruning my computer book collection down. Rather than selling these individually, I’m going to sell them as bundles (less shipping for me, more cheaper for you). My goal is mostly to get these out of my hands so I don’t have to move them.

General Programming & Business of Software - $50 (+ Shipping)

Computer Science - A Structured Programming Approach Using C
Eric Sink on the Business of Software (2 copies)
Micro-ISV - From Vision To reality (2 copies)
Best Software Writing 1
Beautiful Code
The Pragmatic Programmer
Oracle Database 10g: The Complete Reference
Search Engine Optimization

Get Railed - $100 (+ shipping)

Advanced Rails Recipes
The Rails Way
The Ruby Way
Programming Ruby - 2nd Edition
Deploying Rails Applications
Agile Web Development with Rails - 2nd Edition
Rails Recipes

Mac OS X & Cocoa Programming - $75 (+ Shipping)

The Mac OS X Command Line
Mac OS X Bible - Tiger Edition
Advanced Mac OS X Programming 1st Edition (The other HIllegasse book)
Advanced Mac OS X Programming 2nd Edition (The other HIllegasse book)
Learning Cocoa
Building Cocoa Applications
Step into Xcode
Cocoa Programming
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X 2nd Edition

Web Design & Development - $75 (+ shipping)

Pragmatic Ajax
Javascript - The Definitive Guide
Defensive Design for the Web
Web Standards Solutions
Bulletproof Web Design
Designing With Web Standards
PHP Solutions
Blog Design Solutions
DOM Scripting
CSS Mastery

If you are interested, shoot me an email with what bundle you’d like (justin at carpeaqua dot com)

I love Nashville. It really is the perfect city. Someday I will move there.

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:21:16 -0500

I love Nashville. It really is the perfect city. Someday I will move there.

Plugged In: September 18, 2008

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:47:00 -0500

Plugged In: September 18, 2008:

This week’s Plugged In is now up for download and on the Podcast feed. This week features a conversation with John Gruber about Apple’s rejection of Podcaster from AppStore and Vi Wickham of On-Site Computer Solutions on the basics of backup.

The show also features 100% less scripting. The major feedback last week was to stop reading the prompter for the news, so I did. I’m still not where I want to be as a quality host, but I think it improves week over week. If you have any feedback on the show, please let me know.

I never thought the day would come where I actually enjoyed a...

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:12:47 -0500

I never thought the day would come where I actually enjoyed a Microsoft ad campaign, but these Seinfeld-Gates ads are engaging and fun without being overly cornball like most advertising these days.

The ads don’t have to be about how awesome and cool Vista is, because most people will just turn their brain off when they hear that. Instead, they are trying to make take a page from Apple and make Microsoft be a fun, approachable company.

Microsoft’s greatest promotional vehicles have always been the videos that show at trade shows like CES and they have finally realized that that stuff can be endearing to more than just a tech audience.

"After all, they already use project-management site Basecamp to chart the nonsexual parts of their..."

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:54:07 -0500

“After all, they already use project-management site Basecamp to chart the nonsexual parts of their relationship.”

- Bytes of Life

Web 2.0 douchetardery has now officially jumped the shark. All I could think about after reading this article was that scene in Demolition Man where Sandra Bullock and Sylvester Stallone are having “Vir-Sex.” The only difference is that in 2008, you’d be calling out each other’s Twitter username.

I really am trying to avoid all the political douchebaggery of...

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:05:03 -0500

I really am trying to avoid all the political douchebaggery of the past few months, but I can’t get past this woman that NPR talked to as part of a longer “discussion of race” in the election. It’s frightening that these people walk amongst us.