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• 11.22.07 C6 Top Mac Apps 2007: Geeking Out posted in Geekery

  There are some things that normal people (the ones who spend less than 50% of their lives in front of a computer) just don’t need to know about. These probably fall into that list. For the rest of you, here are some of my favorite highlights from the “Geekery” world:

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• 9.21.07 Mending (Jott) Fences posted in Geekery

  I’m extremely pleased to report that after publicly expressing my frustration with my communication with Jott.com, they almost immediately responded in surprise. Apparently there was a breakdown somewhere along the line, but information is flowing very smoothly now. I can now begin a full rewrite of Jott2iGTD as a standalone, far less buggy program. No more scraping HTML emails! No more RubyCocoa! It’s going to be sweet (I’m desperately hoping). In the meantime, I’m hearing mixed reports about the 2.4 version I uploaded this morning. I’m going to attempt to fix some remaining bugs and try again, but I’m totally swamped right now. But I will always do my best to serve my readers, at least until I keel over from exhaustion ;).

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• 9.3.07 I Had to Test Sparkle (MoodBlast 2.1) posted in Geekery

  Well, it appears the auto-updates work, after a little bump that hopefully nobody noticed. The new version improves MoodBlast’s ability to return to the previous foreground window when the panel is closed, instead of forcing you to grab your mouse or ⌘-⇥ to it. I did forget to mention one feature in the previous post: MoodBlast now downcases the first letter of a string when posting to Facebook. Given the way Facebook displays your mood (Brett Terpstra is…), it looked awkward to have a capital in the middle of the sentence and was inconvenient to have to post sentences beginning with lowercase letters to every other service. So now you can just start your sentence with a capital letter and let MoodBlast handle the rest. While I’m writing, I thought I’d give you a list of up and coming features, as well as some hopes for the not-too-distant future…

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• 8.22.07 MoodBlast 2.0 on the Horizon posted in General

  For anyone keeping track, there’s a super-cool new version of MoodBlast on the horizon. A revamped interface and a slew of new features (many from user requests). It’s basically a whole new program, with all of the original functionality. Here’s just a taste…

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• 7.4.07 Projects In The Works posted in Geekery

  I’m kind of taking the 4th off and spending some time away from the radiation production factories that are my offices, but here’s an update on the projects that are underway…

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• 6.30.07 Quick iGTD Next Actions with Quicksilver posted in Geekery

  I started digging through the sqlite3 database for iGTD to see what fun I could have with it. Here’s a little ruby script that, in combination with quicksilver, will pop up a large type window of your top 5 next actions…

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• 6.3.07 Shorter Twitter Sidebar Links posted in Web Design, Geekery

  A quick note for people using Twitter and Wordpress. You’ve probably noticed that nasty problem I was having where the twitter sidebar links were overlapping the blog’s main text on the front page when twitter failed to tinyurl the link. Well, I fixed it…

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• 3.18.07 An Online Magazine: Circle Six Style posted in Web Design

  We’re in the process of launching a new format for the Natural Communities magazine’s online presence this week, and have done a lot of custom Wordpress programming for it. Over the next few days I’m going to do a series on some of the finer custom points of the online magazine and how we’re pulling it off. We’ll cover a few topics…

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• 11.25.06 Undocumented Backpack API Section posted in Geekery

  All this time I’ve been complaining about the poor list support in the Backpack API and it’s just been undocumented. I’ve got the API calls and ruby wrapper for listing the lists on a page and modifying them individually now. This opens up the possibility for full project management on a page. […]

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• 11.5.06 A couple releases posted in Geekery

  I have a few things to share. They’re of limited use to most people, but I’m going to put them out there anyway. The first is an applescript that’s currently designed for Vienna and TextMate but could fairly easily be adapted to any Applescript-able newsreader and blogging app. What it does […]

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