Daniel Bergey Commotion

Mac

iCal Mini

I’d been keeping Mail.app closed because it was a big, slow, dumpus, but with the rise of MiniMail, I’ve found I’ve been keeping it open a lot more. MiniMail made me want to have something like that for iCal, too. Here’s an idea of what it could look like, incorporating the layout of the iPhone’s […]

Various Newsy Things

Possible Apple Store in Greenville Someone with their finger on the pulse of Greenville commerce has hinted to me that part of the downtown area may be due for a revitalization, and that the developers want to coax Apple to build a store here. I wonder what that will do to iPlace, open only since […]

iTunes 7 UI: Mostly Stupid

Andy Matuschak said a bunch that I was going to say. I’ll add a few more complaints thoughts about the new iTunes 7 interface: What’s Uncool: 1) They changed the tab focus behavior. Now all my motor memory is screwed up. Before, I could reliably hit Command-L to select the current song, hit tab twice […]

PHP Preview in BBEdit

I do almost all my work in BBEdit, because I use a remote server on which to test my PHP. But I’ve been using HyperEdit for almost everything else, including mocking up CSS, working with JavaScript, and cranking out non-work PHP. This is completely because of HyperEdit’s integrated PHP preview. I can code in the […]

Growl Styles: NotifyOSX and NotifyOS9

I love Growl. It’s so nice to know exactly what’s happening at all times, when a download finishes, when my photos have uploaded, when my web files have uploaded, and when someone signs on and off of AIM or Jabber. However, I don’t like any of the existing notification styles out there (with the exception […]

My kingdom for a second monitor slideshow

Mac OS X Tiger includes a cool slideshow feature in the Finder. This feature is also in Preview, and a similar one exists in iPhoto. You just grab a folder of images, and hit the Slideshow button. Easy as pie. Except if you want to display the slideshow on a second monitor (like a projector). […]

Dual Display Thumbnail

I’m on the road for StewTech at the PCUSA General Assembly, and in our booth I have a projector set up as my PowerBook’s second display. The trouble is, I have my back to the projector. I don’t want to mirror my display up there, but I want to be able to see what I’m […]

Announcing NetSound

Throughout daily life, I’ve occasionally had a need to shut off or quiet down the music on my wife’s PowerBook, when she’s left it unattended for some reason. Other people have probably felt similar needs, I thought, so I wrote NetSound to fill them. NetSound uses Bonjour to find the computers on your local network, […]

Safari's offscreen menu behavior

I just encountered a weird behavior - if not bug - in Safari. I was on a page with a navigational menu near the top, and I was scrolled near the bottom, but the keyboard focus was still on the dropdown widget. Hitting the spacebar produced this menu sprouting from the top edge of the […]

In which Daniel gets fed up with GPRS-over-Bluetooth

For about 3 or so years now, I’ve had Sony Ericsson phones, starting with the T68i and graduating to the T616. The main feature that I loved about these phones was that I could use them with my PowerBook to get online anywhere I had phone signal. It got even cooler when my second PowerBook […]

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