SenseArray Filtering Gives You Stories Based on Your Preferences
NewsGator Daily: “Beginning today, NewsGator has enhanced its ability to offer users great stories from feeds that they haven’t seen. We have partnered with Uprizer Labs, whose SenseArray collaborative filtering software is able to provide recommended stories based on users’ own preferences.”

In NewsGator Online, for now, not in the client products — but it’s a great idea.
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Expanding NSError Usage
Cocoa Is My Girlfriend: “In this post I am going to demonstrate a few things that can be done with NSError objects that have been received. Specifically, how to add options to an NSError and how to (hopefully) recover from one.”
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Third Edition of Cocoa Programming Available
Theocacao: “The first edition is the one I used to learn Cocoa (back when it was one of maybe two books on the topic), and I remember being struck by how well written it was.”

Like Scott, I learned Cocoa from the first edition. When I recommend Mac programming books, this is the one I recommend first.
09:53 am - #

NewsGator Enterprise Server free for 20 users
Greg Reinacker: “Why would we do such a crazy thing? We want more people to see it. More feedback. More visibility. This product has been extremely successful — our customer list reads like a who’s who of the Fortune 500 — but it’s been primarily deployed in larger installations.”
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NewsGator and APML
Greg Reinacker: “If you’re using sync with NewsGator Online, there is a well-known URL that represents your APML attention data. This APML endpoint can be either public or private — it’s your choice.”

APML stands for Attention Profiling Mark-up Language — it’s your attention data, in other words.
09:10 am - #

The Future of Feed Reading: What Do YOU Want?
Nick Bradbury: “What do you want from your RSS reader in the future? If you could change the future of feed reading to suit your needs, what would you want that future to look like?”
09:47 am - #

CocoaHeads videos
Theocacao: “The video from the UI Design Essentials talk at last month’s CocoaHeads Silicon Valley, is now available, along with the Debugging with Xcode talk by Joar Wingfors.”
10:05 am - #

TapeDeck 1.0
Tapedeck 1.0 “is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard. It’s just like your old analog tape recorder, only better. A lot better.”

It looks very cool.
11:39 am - #

AisleOne — NetNewsWire Style Version 2.0
AisleOne: “Version 2.0 features a design very similar to this blog, extending the visual experience of the site into your RSS reader. It’s simple, clean and easy to read.”
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Comic Life Magiq
Macworld: “The original Comic Life took your photos and let you put them into panels that looked like comic books, complete with captions, dialog bubbles and other effects. Comic Life Magiq builds on that functionality with pre-built templates, ‘props,’ balloons and spraycans to help you tell a story using your own pictures.”

Sounds awesome — congrats to our pals at Plasq!
10:05 am - #

A Windows user’s conversion to Mac OS X — Part II
Peter Bright, Ars Technica: “Although XP itself was essentially unchanged, Microsoft did try to produce a modern, appealing platform for future development. That platform was, of course, .NET...”
10:21 pm - #

Cocoa Is My Girlfriend T-shirts
CIMFG: “They will only be run for WWDC so they are limited edition!” (In your heart you know you want one. ;)
07:23 pm - #

Learning to program for the iPhone
Rhonabwy: “As of yesterday, I might have a new tactic. Uli Kusterer has put up a ‘Learning C on the Macintosh’ tutorial site called Masters of the Void.”
06:25 pm - #

Multi-Inflection-Point Alert
Tim Bray: “Near as I can tell, we’re simultaneously at inflection points in programming languages and databases and network programming and processor architectures and Web development and IT business models and desktop environments.”
05:23 pm - #

Today 1.0
Second Gear: “Built on top of the same data engine as Apple’s iCal and Mail programs, Today lets you quickly see what events and tasks are on today’s agenda with the click of a button.”

Update: Justin Williams writes about entering the world of indie Mac development.
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Developers need to get Spin Dumps as well as Crash Dumps
Dan Wood: “It would be much more useful if application-specific spin reports could be put into a user’s home directory, and made readable to that user. Then, third-party developers could cobble together a mechanism for reporting a hang, just like many of us do for crash reports.”
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Saving Seconds
Rands in Repose: “Go find the Photoshop guru on your floor and watch him or her work. Yes, the mouse is in play, but did you have any idea how much manipulation he did via the keyboard? Want to know why? Because anyone who has a deep, meaningful relationship with a computer is constantly looking for a way to save a few seconds.”

Which reminds me of something I said parenthetically in a post about managing large Cocoa projects: “Remember, every time you touch the mouse, God kills a kitten. Use the keyboard if you have a heart.”
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BusySync 2.0 Released with Google Calendar Support
TidBITS: “BusyMac released BusySync 2.0 today, an update to its software that synchronizes iCal calendars across systems. The new version’s primary change beyond bug fixes and robustness is the capability to synchronize with Google Calendar.”

More awesome Mac software from the Pacific Northwest. ;)

By the way, John Chaffee of BusySync will be presenting at next week’s Seattle Xcoders meeting on automating tech support using FogBugz, shell scripts, etc.
03:19 pm - #

My Work on NetNewsWire
Brian Warren: “The little itty-bitty thing I worked on was the...”
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Port Map and TCMPortMapper
TheCodingMonkeys: “Some times you want to access your computers at home from anywhere in the world. Be it the web server on your home server, the file sharing on your desktop machine or a remote login to your parent’s computer to support them doing their work. This is where the application ‘Port Map’ might come handy.” (New software from the SubEthaEdit folks.)

Side note: check out the screenshot and note how iPhone-style On/Off widgets appear in the app. I’ve also seen this in VPN Tracker. I wonder if we’ll see it in more apps, and if it will become a standard part of the Mac user interface.
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