Category Archives: Mac OS X

Mac mini – camp out / meet up – Tysons Corner, VA – Jan 22

I saw Russell is thinking about camping out overnight so he can be one of the first to get the Mac mini at the SF store. Phew! I thought I was the only one who would rather go to the … Continue reading

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Proposal for a Mac mini switcher commercial

Erik of NSLog() asks: “Did Apple position the Mac mini appropriately (i.e. well enough to avoid a “Cube” debacle)?” Definitely. If the blogosphere is any indication, the Mac mini is already a hit. My only concern is that Apple is … Continue reading

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Tim Bray’s getting a Mac mini for his mom

Tim Bray (who is a computing legend) is getting a Mac mini for his mom. His only complaint is that Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac costs a bunch of money. His mom will probably be content with AppleWorks 6, … Continue reading

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Mac mini on my mind (and apparently a lot of other minds too)

I was going to blog about my first day of implementing Getting Things Done (which is going really well), but the Mac mini is too much on my mind now. Plus, combing through my blog feeds in NetNewsWire, I notice … Continue reading

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My predictions for 2005

John Batelle started it, Scoble gave us his 19, Don Box ran with it, Carlos kept the ball rolling, and now I can’t resist making some predictions of my own for 2005. 1. Eclipse becomes the Java community’s answer to … Continue reading

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Project Post-mortems

Post-mortem (noun) – what a good programmer writes after he’s released a product. Also known as project retrospective or after-development report. Here’s some thoughts on the post-mortems by Gus on VoodooPad 2.0 and Brent on MarsEdit 1.0 (which was spun … Continue reading

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Why Quicksilver rocks

I was going to blog about how Brent wrote up a project retrospective (which he called an after-development report and most people call a post-mortem) on MarsEdit. This is cool because I had wondered openly if he would write a … Continue reading

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MarsEdit 1.0 released

MarsEdit 1.0 was released today. I wonder if Brent will do a post-mortem of it like Gus Mueller did with VoodooPad 2.0. I found that to be pretty insightful, especially since it confirmed once again some things that I’ve learned … Continue reading

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Back in Blogosphere with MarsEdit

I’ve been busy with work and family and side projects. There never seems to be enough hours in the day to do everything. Also I think I had been spending too much time trying to organize my thoughts and format … Continue reading

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Calling all Eclipse users on Mac OS X!

I formed a new Google Group called “eclipse-mac” where people can discuss topics specific to running Eclipse on Mac OS X as well as deploying plug-ins and RCP apps to Mac OS X. You can join at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/eclipse-mac/ .

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