ranchero.comNews and software for smart people. Mostly Mac.WordPress To Disable Remote Access by Default- June 24, 2008 Red Sweater: “But in my opinion, there are also good arguments to be made for rejecting the change as a damaging and misguided solution.”http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/512/wordpress-to-disable-remote-access AppleScript and chat privacy- June 24, 2008 Jason Snell: “Recently I was fuming on Twitter about the inability to set ‘private times’ in chat applications.” AppleScript to the rescue!http://www.macworld.com/article/134123/2008/06/applescript_adium.html Bullit NetNewsWire style- June 23, 2008 cameron io: “Bullit is the style I developed to read my RSS feeds on NetNewsWire. Clarity and readability were the most important factors.”http://cameron.io/project/bullit Share Your NewsGator Clippings with ReadBurner- June 23, 2008 Nick Bradbury: “NewsGator has partnered with ReadBurner, and as a result, it’s now dead simple to share your NewsGator clippings with ReadBurner. This means that FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, NewsGator Inbox and NewsGator Online customers can easily share their clipped articles with ReadBurner.” Here’s how to share clippings in NetNewsWire. Once you have a clippings feed, you can go to ReadBurner and add it. (See Nick’s post for more details.)http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/share-your-news.html iPhone developers roundtable- June 18, 2008 Macworld: “The Worldwide Developers Conference is now a recent, bright memory. To celebrate its passing, we devote this episode of the Macworld Podcast to all things WWDC —&160;a reality check on what Apple announced last week and then a roundtable interview with a group of Mac developers who have turned their attention to the iPhone.” It was cool to get the chance to talk to Jason Snell and to a couple stars of iPhone development: Craig Hockenberry and Greg Titus.http://www.macworld.com/article/134034/2008/06/mwpodcast124.html What Should iPhone Applications Cost- June 16, 2008 Paul Kafasis, Inside iPhone: “If you’re not going to be in the store at launch, you can certainly wait and see how the market adjusts itself. Will people pay $10 for applications Almost certainly. How about $20 or more We don’t yet know.”http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/what-should-iphone-application.html 2008 PMC Software Auctions- June 16, 2008 Seth Dillingham is looking for software donations for the 2008 PMC Software Auctions. It’s a great cause, and already the good folks at Bare Bones and C-Command have donated software.http://www.truerwords.net/fundraising/pmcsoftware/index.html#cdbackground CocoaHeads reminder- June 11, 2008 Reminder: tonight’s CocoaHeads meeting is at 7 at the Apple Store. A bunch of smart folks are speaking: Gus Mueller, Daniel Jalkut, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, and Mathieu Tozer. (I’ll join them for the Q&A session at the end.) And, after that, it’s time for the Ars Party.http://theocacao.com/document.page/577 Buzz Andersen’s 5th Annual WWDC Party- June 9, 2008 Buzz’s party is at 111 Minna Gallery tonight. This is the third year in a row that NewsGator, where I work, has been a sponsor. (Thanks, folks!) This year Golden%Braeburn is also a sponsor — it sounds pretty cool.http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/460378/ C42- June 8, 2008 Wolf: “I’m happy to report I’ve decided to go for another round, and C42 is scheduled for September 5th through 7th.”http://rentzsch.com/c4/2dates |