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August 28
Mac App to View iCal Tasks and Agenda Today is a powerful, easy to use event and task management application for Mac OS X Leopard. 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. Want a quick glance at your daily events and tasks, but don’t want to leave iCal open all day? Even with iCal closed, Today syncs all of your data so your events and tasks are always available via Today’s convenient interface. (via Second Gear - Today - iCal Event and Task Assistant For Mac OS X!)

Mac App to View iCal Tasks and Agenda

Today is a powerful, easy to use event and task management application for Mac OS X Leopard. 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. Want a quick glance at your daily events and tasks, but don’t want to leave iCal open all day? Even with iCal closed, Today syncs all of your data so your events and tasks are always available via Today’s convenient interface. (via Second Gear - Today - iCal Event and Task Assistant For Mac OS X!)

August 27
Add an iPhone call log to iCal via AppleScript

If you’re like me, it is often nice to know the time spent on a call (especially if you charge your services by the minute) and even though the cheapest cell phones out there can tell you the time you were just on the phone, that data is buried deep in iPhone’s records and unaccessible from the touch GUI.

I have been using a script created in ruby called calllog2ical, which you can download from this page at Google Code. The install process is a breeze and it can be called from Terminal. After using the script for about a week, I decided it would be nicer to use an AppleScript to access the shell script, and so I wrote one. Its all of one line and goes like this:

do shell script “/usr/local/bin/calllog2ical.rb -v0 iPhone\ Call\ Log”

In the above code, the calendar I am syncing to is iPhone Call Log.
August 24

FileMaker Page Numbering & Separate Print Jobs

Alex Brophy and I solved this problem just this week. The solution involved these items…


Create a field:

- We created a global variable, something like $$ReportBasePageNumber and then created a calculated unstored field in the table that we are printing from called zzReportPage = Get ( PageNumber ) + $$ReportBasePageNumber - 1. If you are printing from several tables, you need this on each table as it will be used to print the page numbers.

- In the table that we are printing from we added the field zzReportPage to the layout on the right and left sides. We used conditional formatting to make the page number white so the page numbers would show on the left or right appropriately. 


In the report script you:

- Start off by initializing $$ReportBasePageNumber to 1.

- Setup the first portion of the print job, go to Preview Mode. The page numbers should be correct.

- Go to the last Page while in preview mode, and set $$ReportBasePageNumber = Get ( PageNumber ) + 1. This is the starting page number for the next print job.- Setup the second portion of the print job, go to Preview Mode. The page numbers should be correct.

- Repeat.

August 23
Mac OS X CSS based Signatures The default interface for Mail signatures allows you to do rich text signatures using the fonts and colors palette. You can even drag an image into the compose signature window and it will be included in every email as an attachment. This is fine for most people, but attachments should be just that, an attachment of a file I am sending, not an image in my signature. So here’s an easy guide on how to do CSS signatures referencing images on an outside server and not as an attachment. (via Custom CSS Signatures in Mail (UPDATED) » All Forces)

Mac OS X CSS based Signatures

The default interface for Mail signatures allows you to do rich text signatures using the fonts and colors palette. You can even drag an image into the compose signature window and it will be included in every email as an attachment. This is fine for most people, but attachments should be just that, an attachment of a file I am sending, not an image in my signature. So here’s an easy guide on how to do CSS signatures referencing images on an outside server and not as an attachment. (via Custom CSS Signatures in Mail (UPDATED) » All Forces)

August 21
iPhone graphics for mockups in Photoshop Over the past few months we’ve had to create a few iPhone mock ups for presentations. The problem we’ve encountered is the lack of resources to help us design something efficiently. Up until now we’ve used a nice PSD from 320480.com but we still found ourselves having to build out additional assets or heavily modifying bitmap based buttons and widgets. Since we know we’ll be doing more of this, we created our own Photoshop file that has a fairly comprehensive library of assets – all fully editable. (via iPhone GUI PSD)

iPhone graphics for mockups in Photoshop

Over the past few months we’ve had to create a few iPhone mock ups for presentations. The problem we’ve encountered is the lack of resources to help us design something efficiently. Up until now we’ve used a nice PSD from 320480.com but we still found ourselves having to build out additional assets or heavily modifying bitmap based buttons and widgets. Since we know we’ll be doing more of this, we created our own Photoshop file that has a fairly comprehensive library of assets – all fully editable. (via iPhone GUI PSD)

August 19
Read Magazines via your Browser Mygazines is your free place to browse, share, archive and customize unlimited magazine articles uploaded by you, the Mygazines community. (via Mygazines.com - upload. share. archive.)

Read Magazines via your Browser

Mygazines is your free place to browse, share, archive and customize unlimited magazine articles uploaded by you, the Mygazines community. (via Mygazines.com - upload. share. archive.)

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Icon set - ”Coquette” These free icons flirt with style! “Coquette” free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16x16px, 32x32px, 48x48px, 64x64px and 128x128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format (via DryIcons | Free Icons | Coquette Icon Set)

Icon set - ”Coquette”

These free icons flirt with style! “Coquette” free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16x16px, 32x32px, 48x48px, 64x64px and 128x128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format (via DryIcons | Free Icons | Coquette Icon Set)

July 11
Fugue Icons 0.4.2 (July 11, 2008) 459 icons are included in PNG format (16x16 pixel). (via pinvoke - Icons and pixel fonts)

Fugue Icons 0.4.2 (July 11, 2008) 459 icons are included in PNG format (16x16 pixel). (via pinvoke - Icons and pixel fonts)

July 8
ies4osx - Run Internet Explorer for Windows on Mac OS X.

ies4osx - Run Internet Explorer for Windows on Mac OS X.

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Free Online Javascript WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor

This is a nice replacement to a website textarea which allows for text formating!
July 5
pChart is a PHP class oriented framework designed to create aliased charts. Most of todays chart libraries have a cost, our project is intended to be free. Data can be retrieved from SQL queries, CSV files, or manually provided. This project is still under development and new features or fix are made every week. (via pChart | a PHP Charting library)

pChart is a PHP class oriented framework designed to create aliased charts. Most of todays chart libraries have a cost, our project is intended to be free. Data can be retrieved from SQL queries, CSV files, or manually provided. This project is still under development and new features or fix are made every week. (via pChart | a PHP Charting library)

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We could have gone on making these for ever, but I felt that we had most of the icons that you will find useful made so decided to leave the set at 128 Icons, they are only available in 48×48px. These free icons are exactly that, free! (via Function Web Design & Development [ Blog ]  » Blog Archive  » Free Icons: Function Icon Set, 128 Completely Free Icons)

We could have gone on making these for ever, but I felt that we had most of the icons that you will find useful made so decided to leave the set at 128 Icons, they are only available in 48×48px. These free icons are exactly that, free! (via Function Web Design & Development [ Blog ]  » Blog Archive  » Free Icons: Function Icon Set, 128 Completely Free Icons)

June 24
Featured Download: Free Keynote Objects Spice Up Your Presentation

The IT designers at iPresentee offer a package of 100 attractive icons and objects for download and use in your slideshows and documents. The iPresentee Keynote objects are resizable TIF images with transparent backgrounds for use in your Keynote or PowerPoint slideshow, Word document, brochure, or any creative project. The package is a free download and includes common icons like flags, stars, speech bubbles, road signs, and computer symbols like folders and hard drives.
June 4
I so want one of these!!! Amazon.com: Matrox T2G-D3D-IF Triplehead2Go Dual-Link Digital Input Digital Edition: Electronics

I so want one of these!!!

Amazon.com: Matrox T2G-D3D-IF Triplehead2Go Dual-Link Digital Input Digital Edition: Electronics

May 29
Mac OS X's Address Book Can Now Sync Google Contacts

Mac OS X Leopard only: Today’s release of Mac OS 10.5.3 added a juicy little tidbit to Address Book: the ability to automatically sync your Google contacts.