January 2nd, 2008 | by Derek | published in Apple
So with my annual haul of Apple gift cards, we went to the Apple Store yesterday and picked up a 16G iPod Touch. Why not an iPhone? Well, we’re already one a plan, I wasn’t excited about AT&T’s network, and generally couldn’t pull the trigger on it. But a similar-looking device with built-in wifi? Gimme. [...]
May 19th, 2004 | by Derek | published in Apple, Car Tools
The Coding Monkeys have released a new version of their fine OS X programming and text editor, SubEthaEdit (good product, bad name). A big addition for me, one that gets me closer to being able to shut off my addiction to using UltraEdit on a PC, is regular expression support in find and replace. And [...]
May 11th, 2004 | by Derek | published in Apple, Car Tools, Python
It took a few tries, but I finally got the MySQLdb module by Andy Dustman working on OS X, thanks to some guidance from Forwarding Address: OS X. I did need to clear out previous files created in the /Library/Frameworks/ folder and make a few edits to the setup file, but now I can use [...]
January 7th, 2004 | by Derek | published in Apple, Python
AppScripting allows Python script to replicate some of AppleScript’s functionality in OS X, such as retrieving information from Safari, Mail and other OS X apps. Sort of a cross between the two, really. (via Daily Python-URL)
November 1st, 2003 | by Derek | published in Apple
This article is based on a piece that first appeared in the May/June 2003 issue of Uplink, which subsequent revisions. Ok, so you’ve made the plunge. Either you’re a PC person who chose to buy a Mac (or had the decision made for) or you’ve always used Apples but not for computer-assisted reporting work. Now [...]