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TNEF’s Enough Ready for Gatekeeper

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The upcoming release of Mac OS X (v. 10.8 aka Snow Leopard) will provide a security feature called Gatekeeper. With Gatekeeper, users can control the apps that run on their systems by allowing only Mac App Store titles and code … Continue reading


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QR Journal 1.2 Released!

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Version 1.2 of QR Journal has been approved on the Mac App Store. Get it there or on this site. This version adds a preference for choosing a non-iSight camera. As long as the camera can be used with iChat, … Continue reading


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Kids – Computer Astronomy

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The kids and I recently visited a local planetarium which turned out to be a great segue into more star gazing fun. Living in an urban environment in an especially overcast part of the country doesn’t help our chances of … Continue reading


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TNEF’s Enough 3.2 Released!

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Just in time for Spring, TNEF’s Enough now has printing support for winmail.dat files. I’ve had several users ask me about this and it’s taken me a while but is finally done. Please let me know if you have any … Continue reading


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Kids – Game of Life

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This is the first in hopefully a series of posts as I blend in more science and technology education into my parenting. Our family vacations make a point of visiting lots of zoos, aquariums and children museums but I’ve been … Continue reading


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Dashboard – Time In

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Being a services company, tracking billable time is huge. When you’re 10 people, taking a look at time reports once a week for the whole company doesn’t take much effort. However, growing to 100+ people requires delegation to direct managers … Continue reading


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QR Journal 1.0 Released!

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I’ve been busy with work for the last couple months but was able to stitch together a new desktop app. After using ZBar for iOS apps, I decided to give it a go with iSight cameras on Macs. This gave … Continue reading


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TNEF’s Enough 3.1 Released!

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I’ve been working on enhancing TNEF’s Enough as well as addressing user input from version 3.0. The changes for 3.1 are: TNEF files with an HTML body will now display in a web view. TNEF messages encapsulate a full email … Continue reading


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iOS Experiment – Door Stretching

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My day job involves interactive marketing work for several cabinet manufacturers. The breadth of product line has always been an obstacle when dealing with product visualization. You can easily get your head around door styles, wood species and finishes enough … Continue reading


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TNEF’s Enough 3.0 Released!

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Took a bit of a break from blogging to wrap up v. 3.0 of TNEF’s Enough. You can grab the latest version here. Works with 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion). Will return real soon with other things I’ve been … Continue reading


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