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Author Archives: Angus Hardie
SQLEditor Cocoa B6 Due for release.
SQLEditor Cocoa Beta 6 has been released. Beta 6 offers a number of significant enhancements and improvements, plus several bug fixes. Fields can now be dragged from one table to another. The list of data types can now be edited … Continue reading
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Very slight redesign of MalcolmHardie.com website
Observant readers may notice a slight change to the malcolmhardie.com website (if you came in from there). The fonts for the titles have been resized and the stupid red boxes have been removed. Hopefully it all looks more visually cohesive. … Continue reading
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NSLog
I just realised that NSLog allows parameters. I’d previously been using NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:@”%d”,randomVar]) … But now I realise that the I don’t really need to do this. A simple call to NSLog will work as well. NSLog(@”%d”,randomVar); It still isn’t … Continue reading
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Missing Email
I just had the thought that there is email that I should have, but can’t find. Which is bad, given that I’ve been trying to archive all of my email. The key question obviously is where has it gone? And … Continue reading
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SQLEditor Cocoa B5 Released
Good news everyone! SQLEditor Cocoa version is finally available for download. SQLEditor Cocoa offers a Mac OS X native cocoa interface, an improved SQL parser, better performance and some bug fixes. Download (325k)
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Shareware and Serial Numbers
Not much posting recently. But I’ve been working getting SQLEditor ready for release. The big things recently have been bug fixes and developing a serial number system. It’s extremely annoying to have to spend any time at all working on … Continue reading
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Ringtone pricing vs Other Content
David made an interesting point in a comment recently about the ridiculous prices people are paying for ring tones and how this may be encouraging news for more sophisticated content (like video). If people are willing to pay 50p or … Continue reading
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Parsing SQL in SQLEditor
Good progress is being made again on the Cocoa version of SQLEditor. I have recently rewritten the parsing system to use javacc instead of my own home built parser. This allows for better, simpler and more reliable parsing. Writing my … Continue reading
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TV on 3G Mobiles
According to this BBC Article there is a growing move towards tv programming on mobile phones. The key disadvantage is the amazingly high cost; one of the people interviewed paid $50 for 45 minutes. High pricing seems to be a … Continue reading
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Cross Platform Applications
With the announcement of Dashboard in Mac OS X 10.4 Apple, like many other companies, seems to have gone for a standards based approach. Dashboard is said to be based on HTML, CSS and javascript. A webpage in all but … Continue reading
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Definitions in spellchecker?
There have been lots of articles today in newspapers because the Oxford English Dictionary publishers have claimed that people are confused and choosing words incorrectly. For example “pouring” instead of “poring”. The problem being that people are basing the word … Continue reading
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SQLEditor (Java) Final Candidate
I’ve decided to release a new version of SQLEditor (Java). The FC1 version is a final candidate version that hopefully incorporates fixes for the bugs that people have reported. There have been problems with users running Mac OS X 10.3 … Continue reading
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No Chopsticks?
Despite being absolutely huge the Sainsbury’s at Cameron Toll in Edinburgh doesn’t sell Chopsticks. I even went so far as to ask! Not one chopstick to be found (although presumably I would need at least two to actually get anywhere … Continue reading
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Apple iMac EOL
The Apple – iMac page has a really odd announcement on it (right, middle) stating that stocks of the old iMac have pretty much run out and the whole line will be replaced in September. The message also apologises to … Continue reading
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Do I think enough?
I’ve been wondering today if I actually think enough to call this weblog “Angus Thinks”? Is there a requirement to think a certain amount to be able claim that I do think and does the subject matter actually matter? I … Continue reading
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Apple WWDC announcements
Well by now everybody probably knows about this, but I thought to follow up my previous post. Apple launched the most amazingly large flat panel screens on Monday. The largest is a 30″ lcd panel. There was also a demonstration … Continue reading
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Added a few new links
I just got finished adding a few new links. It’s getting to be this sort of six-degrees of weblog kind of thing. How can I get from here to any other page on the internet via only the links on … Continue reading
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Keypads disappearing from mobile phones?
What purpose does the keypad actually serve on a mobile phone? Most people these days are not typing numbers on it. Numbers are usually stored in the address book. People type sms messages on it, but is that efficient? T9 … Continue reading
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Nokia 6600
Dhruba posted a review of the Nokia 6600 a while back. He also let me borrow it for a few minutes to play a game on it and it is beautiful to use. Smart phones definitely seem to taking the … Continue reading
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Physical Media or just digital content
I was thinking the other day about whether you actually need physical manifestation of media content. Does a movie gain something by being physically on a DVD rather than being stored digitially on a computer? There is definitely one advantage … Continue reading
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