Archive for the 'Geekery' Category

• 05.09.08 MoodBlast 3.2: Leopard Only! posted in Geekery

  With version 3.2, MoodBlast is now Leopard-only. This is to ease future development of a program that I love… but that doesn’t exactly pay the bills. This change does allow for a slicker interface and memory management will continue to improve as I rewrite chunks of code. If you’re still on Tiger, don’t upgrade! Your current version will continue to function and you won’t be missing much for a while.

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• 03.25.08 Pownce Posting Error: Solved posted in Geekery

  For everyone experiencing posting errors with Pownce, especially prevalent after a reboot, fear not. I believe I’ve found the issue and MoodBlast will version up before I leave for my brother’s wedding on Thursday. I’m seriously considering a redesign, maybe back to a HUD, but time will tell.

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• 03.08.08 MoodBlast 3.1 saves the day? posted in Geekery

  MoodBlast 3.1 is available in auto-updates and on the download page. Release notes follow…

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• 03.04.08 MoodBlast 3.1 beta 1 posted in Geekery

  There is a beta available that should fix problems that arose with the 3.0.7 series. Please give it a shot and shoot me any feedback or bug reports you have. Special thanks to Adam and everyone who’s been working to help me narrow down a few issues.

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• 03.02.08 MoodBlast 3.0.7.x problems posted in Geekery

  I’m discovering some fundamental problems with the new preferences system that were apparently dormant for myself and early testers. It’s currently looking like I’ll be merging back the changes in that area while trying to maintain any new functionality. I apologize to anyone who’s having problems… I should have a fix out in the next day or two. Thanks to everyone for feedback and bug reports so far.

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• 03.01.08 MoodBlast now hearts Pownce posted in Geekery

  That’s right, we finally got Pownce support. I’ve also fixed the “Start Hidden” feature. The most significant change is actually a complete rewrite of the preference storage code. The new version will make every attempt to convert your previous preferences, but you may end up re-entering them if it fails. I apologize for any inconvenience, but it should completely eradicate the Applescript/file access problems of yesteryear. Have at it.

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• 02.29.08 And then there was Pownce posted in Geekery

  And somehow the Pownce API release slipped below my radar last night. I’ve already got the authentication and app registration figured out, just need to add some Obj-C code for posting from MoodBlast. For now, only public messages will be supported. Support for links will be coming soon, and I may work out some parameters for specifying lists of recipients. All in due time.

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• 02.29.08 The State of the Blast posted in Geekery

  A quick update on the state of MoodBlast…

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• 02.25.08 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin posted in Web Design, Geekery

  Michael Erlewine has improved on the Wordpress Related Posts Plugin with Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. An improvement to the full-text search that allows limiting by a relevance threshold allows the most relevant posts to show up at the top of the list, so if you only display 5 results, they’re more likely to be of interest. It also allows control over retrieving both posts and pages. And for those less code-oriented, it can function without modification to your theme and has an improved options screen. Wordpress users should check it out!

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• 02.02.08 Giving Flock some love posted in Geekery

  Okay, it’s time for a little more in depth post on why I’m loving Flock. The easy part of that answer is that it uses the Mozilla rendering engine while adding some very useful (to me) functionality (Twitter sidebar, blog tools, media stream…) and provides compatibility with most Firefox plugins. The more complex answer is that with a little effort, Flock can be customized to do way more than advertised…

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