Another great software development article...

[via Disobey Nonsense Network] Wonderful Alan Cooper article: 14 Principles of Polite Apps. Read the article for explanations of: 1. Polite Software Is Interested in Me 2. Polite Software Is Deferential to Me 3. Polite Software Is Forthcoming 4. Polite Software Has Common Sense 5. Polite Software Anticipates My Needs 6. Polite Software Is Responsive 7. Polite Software Is Taciturn About Its Personal Problems 8. Polite Software Is Well-Informed 9. Polite Software Is Perceptive 10. Polite Software Is Self-Confident 11. Polite Software Stays Focused 12. Polite Software Is Fudgable 13. Polite Software Gives Instant Gratification 14. Polite Software Is Trustworthy (link)

Unsanity creates really cool Mac OS X interface hacks - haxies.

This means, being a shareware developer, we have to release things at a steady pace to get noticed by general public (link)

[via bbum's rants, code & references] A new version of Accessorizer came out today. It is a very useful little app that, given a variable declaration, generates the various random Obj-C idioms that developers have to create over and over and over again when building Cocoa/ObjC apps. (link)

of some tweaked features in Sid.

[via bbum&[#39](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/39);s rants, code & references] A new version of Accessorizer came out today. It is a very useful little app that, given a variable declaration, generates the various random Obj-C idioms that developers have to create over and over and over again when building Cocoa/ObjC apps. (link)

Google News presents information culled from approximately 4,000 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first (link)

Feeling lost? Wondering, "What do I do next?" This site is for you. (link)

As several people have already noted, Google has made some major changes in their most recent update. The weblogging community was hit hard... (link)

[via Aaron Swartz: The Weblog] As you can see, copyright lengths go up as soon as Mickey gets a little too close to freedom. (link)

Heh. I released a new build of Sid to the alpha-victims today, and an hour later had 6 (!) emails from Clark Venable, tester extraordinaire.

One of my alpha testers just emailed me:

A big light bulb just went on in my head about Sid, NetNewsWire Lite, and Conversant. Wow!

I finally got Sid's Applescript-powered email error reporting working today. It took ages to get it all right; it took getting the Applescript right, then making sure the Sid's Application Support folder was created, then writing out the error file, then finally reading in the script, filling in the parameters, can calling it. It works!!!

I need some help with Applescript, osascript, and some shell script.

[via inessential.com]

[via dive into mark] > I don't want to talk about corporate politics. I want to talk about the tilde. (link)

When he plugged the camera into the local network with an Ethernet cable, the camera came up as a device in a local browser window on Mac OS X. Cheshire double clicked the camera's entry and, voila, the camera's html control page came up, complete with images of the audience. (link)

[via Jeremy Zawodny's blog] Jeremy blogs Jordan Hubbard keynoting today at the O'Reilly OS X conference. (link)

I would love to be able to get some of my mailing lists via RSS. Certain lists I read a lot of, but don't want to have around cluttering my HD, since I know they're archived and searchable online. I would love to be able to read them in NetNewsWire, following the links to interesting posts.

You know your caffeine addiction is going string when an online comic triggers your need to go make coffee...

Jordan: "One of the benefits of going with [Motorola] is that we don't assume the hardware will get faster." (link)