Real Work
January 30th, 2010I might as well weigh in on my thoughts regarding the iPad. The phrase "real work" is being thrown about and Fraser Speirs has his own views. Sadly, I have to be realistic and keep my feet on the ground. Continue reading »
Transcriva 2 Named Apple Staff Pick
November 17th, 2009Apple named Transcriva 2 (2.014) as a Staff Pick on the Productivity Tools section of their download site. It's always nice to know the "Mothership" is watching. Continue reading »
Talking Face Speech Synthesizer Demo
November 16th, 2009
A question was posted on StackOverflow about whether the ability existed on the Mac OS to match a talking head or face to the spoken phonemes of the built-in speech synthesizer. The answer is: of course there is, it's a Mac! I'll show you how it's done. Continue reading »
Entrepreneurial Laziness
November 10th, 2009Repeat after me: It's good to be lazy. Entrepreneurs start out by doing everything themselves. To prevent burn-out and "streamline" their operations, they must automate as much as possible. Continue reading »
Drag Effect In Action
November 9th, 2009Last week I posted my solution to the IB3-like drag-from-library-palette effect called "JLNDragEffectManager". Today I released an update to XTabulator (2.002) that contains this effect when dragging rows to the desktop or a folder to create new files. It's a perfect demonstration of how "drag effects" can be used for excellent user feedback in your UI. Take a look. Continue reading »