January 2011
12 posts
App Store Receipt Validation Oddness
I’m trying to fill Google with some helpful tips, since I took forever trying to figure this out.
If you’re trying to validate receipts with a test account for the Mac App Store, and it’s silently failing without installing the receipt, check Console.app. If you see something like this:
1/30/11 1:16:07 AM storeagent[62006] promptResponse: <CKSignInPromptResponse:0x103c88c60...
Todolicious →
Ever since I found the “Minimally Awesome Todos” I linked to back in December, I’ve been wanting a more Mac-like version of the same idea: a quick-entry, hyper-simple to do list. Todolicious answers that call.
I’d seen Todolicious when it first came out, but I wasn’t exactly sold on it at first (not so much on the price as the commitment to a new system). But today,...
Mac App Store →
Like you haven’t heard about this yet.
Apps I Haven't Been Able to Live Without
I had a dead hard drive in my MacBook Pro, and it’s being replaced by the manufacturer (Samsung), but until I get my replacement, I’m having to use my parents’ iMac. These are the non-system apps I’ve been compelled to install thus far just to maintain my sanity.
Xcode Tools
TextWrangler
Coda
Quicksilver
Acorn
CloudApp
Hibari
I’ll update this list if any more...
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Redundant data in the Weather... →
mrgan:
If you’re a serious weather junkie, you might use a special weather app to get your daily klimate kick. And if you’re Edward Tufte, you might think the iPhone weather app is “a bit thin”. Me, I don’t mind it - it’s a nice, big dashboard view of the weather features I care most about.
But here’s…
New Personal Page →
If you’re following this blog, you probably already saw this one way or another (after all, the URL is now http://blog.pado.name, but I launched a personal site to help centralize everything about me onto one page with way too many words on it.
960 Grid System →
I’d seen the 960 Grid System before (originally in Aaron Vegh’s book), but until today had never actually used it.
Wow.
If you suck at web design, like I do, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It lets you create neat column-based websites really fast.
Command-Line Project Management →
Proper Ordering of Obj-C #import Statements →
EDIT: Later discussion decided that the class header file should actually go last, after “other classes”.
New Years Resolutions
Save money.
Make Cocoatype a sustainable business.
Move out of my parents’ house.
Just saving this for later.