Sam’s random musings

Monster laptop sleeves from Barry’s Farm - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):

My mother in law could so make these cooler… she has the ultimate grandma job, she designs stuffed animal puppets for folkmanis

(Via TUAW.)

Throw paper at the office and keep it clean: So this should let you keep tossing that paper in the office when you are bored, but keep it nice and clena

(Via creative pro.)

Plug: LED fits exactly:

The Lego of Sleepy Hollow: How to hack LEDs into Lego minifigures for Halloween

So if you weren’t planning on making the head of your legos glow, now you know that they were made for it…

(Via Firewheel Design: Sparkplug.)

All of these are legitimate companies dealing in regular products and services, but they (obviously) didn’t think their domain names through. Most of them are prime candidates for the “What was I thinking?” Award…

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So there is a post floating around with some totally disjointed reasons why he can’t handle his new Mac. You can read the article if you want, but believe me the responses from around the way are much better reading

Flame: My birthday present to me:

A fellow named “Larry Bodine”, who is apparently on the advisory board of “Law Technology News” (eg, he’s a technology advisor) and is also a law firm marketing consultant, has written a piece where describes, using no small amount of factual errors, fallacies, and other bad writing techniques, why he doesn’t like the Mac.

Good luck! And good riddance! I’d buy it myself but I’m afraid you might have smeared some stupid on it!

(Via Call Me Fishmeal..)

Can an operating system sue for libel?:

Well that’s your first mistake. Boat anchors will not run Mac OS X, nor Word. It will run NetBSD, however.

(Via tales of being tj..)

Larry doesn’t like his Mac:

Law marketing consultant Larry Bodine had some problems with his new Mac. Now, some of his complaints sound pretty serious and I don’t blame him for wanting to deal with them. But Larry, there’s a few things you mention that I thought maybe I could help you with.

(Via Giles Turnbull @ MacDevCenter.com Blog.)

A consultant who lies? Well shut my mouth.:

The article, dated … um … tomorrow is by Chicago-based marketing consultant Larry Bodine. Titled “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” the article describes Larry’s nightmarish experience with a Power Macintosh G5 computer.
Or does it?

(Via The Shape of Days.)

Smooth Slideshow 2.0:

Jonathan Schemout has released version 2 of his Smooth Slideshow library, written on top of mootools.

New Features in 2.0

• All the code is now wrapped in objects. In other words, you can now add more than one slideshow to the same webpage.
• JonDesign’s SmoothSlideshow now center images in the viewport. This way you can use different image ratio in the same slideshow.
• JDSS now uses mootools instead of moo.fx and prototype.lite.js (but don’t worry, there is still a version using moo.fx available ;-))
• Some graphical changes (yeah everyone wants to look cool :-))
• And last but not least, a lot of bugfixes.

This is a nice clean slideshow,

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

Technical Q&A: Finding EXC_BAD_ACCESS bugs in a Cocoa project:

QA1367: Discusses how to find memory protection violations or EXC_BAD_ACCESS bugs in Cocoa projects.

ok now this is a good start, ok not really that helpful. Really all is says is that if you get this then you lost track of your reference counting, but doesn’t really help you find it, just how to avoid it. So if it is too late what do you do, CocoaDev.com to the rescue.Debugging Autorelease. This has saved my sorry reference mis-counting butt more then once.

(Via Apple Developer Connection Cocoa Headlines.)

FileBrowse - a media browser companion for Finder:

Romain Guy at The Apple Blog has penned a nice walkthrough of an interesting new app called FileBrowse, which acts as more of a streamlined tool for media file browsing and manipulating tasks, as opposed to a full-fledged Finder replacement (cuz we all know how well that’s going). FileBrowse makes use of subtle display and 3D elements to provide more information when rooting through folders of images, music and video. As you can see, it draws Windows XP-like thumbnails on folders of images, allowing one to peek at what’s inside without actually having to crack it open. It also offers far more information (like metadata) when viewing items individually, and it even renders album artwork on music folders, along with video file previews, a unique visual grouping system, and more.

FileBrowse looks like an interesting app, so check out Romain’s walkthrough if you’ve been feeling the Finder is a bit lacking in these departments lately. At $25 though, it probably won’t be for everyone, but it’s nice to see some new file browsing tools that focus on a few things, and doing them well.

This is one of the nicest ui’s for browsing the filesystem of images and other filetypes) that I have seen in a long time.

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)