Aug 21, 2003
iRooster
:-)
I am officially a professional shareware developer now. I had my first few sales today. This is really cool. :-)
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Aug 20, 2003
Zoon Politikon
Why Geoff Hates Dubya
Geoff: “When I look at George W. Bush, I don’t see a patriot. I see a lying, psychopathic narcissist.”
Aug 18, 2003
Personal Life
M500 MIA
I think I lost my Palm M500 tonight. I used to have an M100. I lost that too. I never get too worked up over losing my Palm devices for some reason. Oh well. If it doesn’t show up within a week (my apartment needs to be cleaned a bit) I’ll just bu...
Aug 18, 2003
iRooster
iRooster 1.0 Now Available
iRooster, a Mac OS X-only application, allows you to quickly and easily create alarms to wake you up in the morning. Create a special playlist in iTunes for waking up, or use any of the pre-existing iTunes playlists: iRooster will play back your L...
Aug 17, 2003
Miscellaneous
Education in America
I was just reading slashdot (a bastion of cough insightful, useful comments, as everyone is, no doubt, aware), and I was absolutely shocked to discover a comment that actually made sense. “Teaching children is a low-paying occupation, and you get...
Aug 16, 2003
Personal Life
Cockups and 1.1
So iRooster 1.0 was supposed to go live on Friday. Unfortunately, due to one of those Murphy’s Law-sort-of-things, my account rep at esellerate left the office early on thursday because he felt sick, and never came in on friday. oh well. That’s li...
Aug 11, 2003
iRooster
Just about 1.0
Ok, almost there. I think I crossed the last big hurdle with getting iRooster ready for official 1.0 GM status. This is cool: my first real piece of shipped software (beating out this wee little office suite I worked on last summer for first relea...
Aug 11, 2003
iRooster
eSellerate
The Mac OS X shareware application that I have been working on, iRooster, is done. Well, that is, except for the lovely business of integrating the eSellerate engine into it. I have to say, the eSellerate people have been really cool, and really h...
Aug 10, 2003
Usability and UI Design
Linux Usability Disasters
The single most irritating type of comment I ever read on Slashdot is the “but we should stop copying Windows and invent our own unique, better user interface!” This bothers me to no end. I honestly cannot believe that the Linux community will dev...
Aug 10, 2003
Usability and UI Design
KDE Usability Gripes
Just for fun, let’s look over the KDE screenshot from before. Issues: What in the world is “aRTs?” Why would I want to enable or disable full duplex operation? Hell, I spent four years getting a computer science degree, and I have no clue he...