I recently got the chance to take an OLPC home and try it out myself… overall it’s a pretty cool little toy, very well-designed, and a great concept. Here’s some eye candy.

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Just got back from Waters’s show in Houston, and, despite the semi-cheesy guitar playing, it rocked. Great props, great singing (esp. the Wall encore), great audience, great everything. Anyways, the pig took off again halfway through the show, just like a few weeks ago. I’m pretty sure it was unintentional - they were parading it through the crowd when the top wires snapped and it floated off into the sky. Roger commented on it but I couldn’t quite hear him.

Pics and stuff after the jump.

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Might as well post this on all the sites…

Most of us PPC users cringed a little when Jobs announced that the SDK was compatible only with Intel machines - he left a huge section of developers in the dust. Strangely enough, every version of the SDK has been compatible with PPC, at least for writing code to be emulated: the compiler that actually creates code for the iPhone won’t work, but hey, emulating is better than nothing. So anyways, here’s a little write up of my personal experience with getting the SDK running on a PPC.

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 TuneLog 1.0 is an OS X app that logs the songs played by iTunes. It achieves this by receiving and remembering NSNotifications, then saving the logs to .tunes xml files. You can export these to txt files for printing, delete specific songs inside the log, even turn logging on/off through a cutomizable global hotkey (thanks to the shortcutrecorder project)! Check it out here.

Say hello to silentmac.com - my new app hosting domain. Things were getting a little cluttered over at my old place, so hopefully this will be a good spot to organize and hold on to the things I spontaneously write.

The site is up, I’m still getting things set up though, so just hold on for a few days. Hopefully I can get a couple apps up and working by tomorrow, and registration in a few days.

Joe