Putting Macintoshes into Hibernation Mode solves two mysteries ( Read more... )

Right, we're due for an update ( Read more... )

I'm noodling with Automator, investigating the best way to do some webby things on a mac. For a while last night I was a bit frustrated, as it looked like the only best way to do this was call out to a perl program. Which I've done before, in Linux; but I thought there might be more macish ways too. I'm also trying to convince myself that ( Read more... )

Mac's design for "Accessibility" features are awesome ( Read more... )

I got this today in response to an email to the originator of the My Dream App project, who just wrote a glowing review of Cha-Ching (which looks a heck of a lot like the app I proposed). Fair 'nuff. He said they got dozens of quicken-killer apps. I guess I get a funny story out of the deal. And, of course, the app ( Read more... )

Well that's pretty neat. I've given it a run-through and Cha-ching got it right. At least, as far as a beta version 0.1 goes. I emailed and hopefully they'll tell me what's up their sleeves. I also registered my copy; since I believe in putting my money where my mouth is. I like what they did with tags, and the "drawers" metaphor is well- ( Read more... )

Holy cow. It's possible that someone thought My Dream App (Quicken, but more intuitive) was worth building.

Exhibit A:

My Dream App description: Ka-Ching. I put this up on August 27th.

Exhibit B:

Cha-Ching. The domain name was registered September 2nd.

It got announced on some entrepreneurship site yesterday. The guy says they wrote the ( Read more... )

The first round of My Dream App is closed, as of Noon PST today ( Read more... )

People on my friends' list have given me a helpful critique of my idea for My Dream App, which I'm quite grateful for, and I am looking forward to seeing how my idea does in the first round of the contest ( Read more... )

[edit: unlocked b/c round one is over and I didn't make it; maybe someone will take the ideas and make this anyhow?]

Yesterday I entered My Dream App, a contest to propose a new Macintosh application, judged according to its novelty, use of Mac OS features, feasibility, and marketability. Three winners will get to see their applications developed ( Read more... )