Archive for the 'Software' Category

NewsGator is looking for a Delphi developer to work on TopStyle

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Rumors of TopStyle’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
As Nick reports, NewsGator is looking for an experienced Delphi programmer to pick up the reins on TopStyle development, and probably kick in some assistance on FeedDemon.
This is a great opportunity to work with me as uber-TopStyle-user extraordinare (and, yeah, Nick too). And if you get on [...]

Minerva - Single-player Half-Life2 mod

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

I’m a Half-Life addict. I pre-ordered Episode 1 and played through it in a few days. Fortunately, I spend a lot of time with Connor so I got to stretch the 4-5 hours of play time out a bit. All-in-all, I’m glad to have it, but it was too short. Of [...]

Jumping on the “report the bug in my blog” bandwagon

Monday, June 12th, 2006

Since it seems to work for Chris and Nick, I thought I’d throw a bug into the blog arena regarding Outlook 2003.
Sometimes I’ve opened a message in a separate window and left it open for awhile, hidden away behind the things I’m actively working on. Later on, as I’m working through my Inbox, I’ll [...]

Test driving NetNewsWire 2.1

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Congrats to Brent Simmons on the release of NetNewsWire 2.1.
This is the first version of the popular Mac newsreader released under the NewsGator banner and includes synchronization with NewsGator’s services.
I figured since I’ve got to support the program, it would probably be a good idea to use it exclusively for awhile. I’m still a [...]

Getting Quicksilver-ish with Launchy

Friday, April 21st, 2006

One of the downsides of Launchy is that it’s only an app launcher, so if you’re used to all the power of Quicksilver, it falls short. But I had a small epiphany this morning - if an app supports command line parameters, you can get a lot more functionality out of Launchy.
Using Outlook 2003 [...]