The Woodwork

A friend of a friend hooked me up with a WWDC pass. Shhh… The real reason I went there was to meet a friend, but he had to miss out that day because of bugs and a release. (I won’t name names, but you suck!)
Unfortunately, I was too tired from driving back from Lunch 2.0 [...]

I was catching up on some of my newsreading when I ran across this article, with the quote:

Image from Macenstein and model from Suicide Girls. (horny php guy desktopper)

I thought I’d make it into this desktop image as a shout-out to all you (male) PHP devs out there. (There was an old PHP image I [...]

It’s (almost) finally safe to make a single song purchase in iTunes Music Store. A new feature called Complete My Album will count your single song purchases to the purchase of the entire album.
Nice.
It’s currently a limited time offer. My guess is they’re going to see the conversion rate before deciding to make it permanent. [...]

One f’d up thing I ran into today is that every time I try to do anything on my Apple TV, my MacBook starts reacting to the remote (going in and out of Front Row for instance).
The solution is to take your remotes and pair them. What pairing does it it forces the computer or [...]

TV came yesterday. Since I work all the time, I had to drive to FedEx to pick it up. The lady there mentioned that all day people were picking up their TVs. I thought this product would not do well at all.
The TV definitely did not like me.
(And after I spent an hour getting [...]

I used to work with a guy named Haiping, a former developer at Microsoft who was hired just two people before me at Plaxo. He has some crazy C++ skills as well as is pretty damn good at that headshot thing in PC first person shooters. Last time I was in South Bay, I stopped [...]

Callwave recently released a widget to provide free visual voicemail. The idea seems to be that you configure your account to do a conditional call forwarding to CallWave’s servers. From there, the widget provides access to the website to allow you to view your voicemail.
Clever.

Download the widget.
[Random thoughts after the jump.]

Simply the best messaging client ever.

I finally got around to looking at Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard site. The videos are interesting.
[Mini-preview after the jump.]

I was reading Presentation Zen, when I happened upon this James Blount/Apple homage:

I’m not too sure what to think.