Windows 7 vs OSX Leopard

For nearly the last year I've been using my Mac Book Pro with OSX Leopard as my primary operating system, which replaced years and years of Windows XP. I still had to run XP for work development, which I did in a virtual machine. A few months ago…

Backing up an OSX profile to a linux server with rsync

TimeMachine is some nice software, but its overkill for me. I've previously written about this and how I put together a rsync solution and why I did so. In the case that anyone might be interested in doing the same, here is my setup. Linux Server I have…

Tetris & the iPhone

A new blog, The Tetromino is detailing the issues surrounding developing a tetris-like game on the iPhone. It looks to be an interesting read in the months ahead.…

Tetris Company is still at it..

A long time ago I wrote a Tetris game. See my old articleto read about it all. Lets say that ultimately my game is still available and I have had no further action taken against me. This week I got an email from Todd, who wrote to let me know…

MServ Client for iPhone

Following closely from my first OSX application (MServClientOSX), I have finished up version one of porting it over to the iPhone. The guts of the code compiled over without any issue, so all I had to do was implement the different UI. This doesn't contain the browsing or…

MServClientOSX 0.80

MservClientOSX is a Mac OSX client for the mserv music server. Version 0.80 supports the following functionality: * Viewing the current status of what's playing * Play, Stop, Next and volume control * Browse and serach the list of tracks available * Add tracks to queue * Browse and search the queue…

iPhone KoolAid

On Monday, I succumbed to the iPhone. I certainly haven't been disappointed - it makes my old windows mobile (running wm6.1) feel like a 386 with windows 3.1. So this post is being written on it with the wordpress app - really just because I can.…