spamguy » Macs http://blog.spamguy.org Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:42:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 racoon.sock http://blog.spamguy.org/2009/04/24/racoonsock/ http://blog.spamguy.org/2009/04/24/racoonsock/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:40:30 +0000 spamguy http://blog.spamguy.org/?p=183 When I say I don’t understand the inner workings of OS X’s UNIX, I mean it. The system has dependencies worthy of witch cauldrons.

(Killjoy explanation.)

]]> http://blog.spamguy.org/2009/04/24/racoonsock/feed/ 0 OS X's Nervous Tics http://blog.spamguy.org/2008/06/20/os-xs-nervous-tics/ http://blog.spamguy.org/2008/06/20/os-xs-nervous-tics/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:51:21 +0000 spamguy http://blog.spamguy.org/?p=122 There are no shortage of metronome apps available for the Mac. One app, Dr. Betotte, is so hardcore I wouldn’t know the difference between it and a dialysis machine.

Each and every single Mac metronome is missing an excellent opportunity through the Apple Remote. A musician’s instrument of choice and his Macintosh may be several metres apart, so implementing Apple Remote functionality would avoid constant running back and forth to

  • start/stop
  • change tempo
  • change volume

I bring this up so any prospective developers looking to shove another clone into an oversaturated market (or, more likely, already-existing narcissistic clone developers googling their product) get the clue. Arguably I could write such a Cocoa app myself, but I never finished Metal Gear Solid 2, and I need to get on that first. Uh, yeah.

In fact, it’s not even as hard as Cocoa. Sofa Control is one of the few shareware apps I’ve ever registered, and it makes the process as easy as editing a flat file.

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