I was browsing for new movies yesterday in a store and came across the Portal 2 PC/Mac game which sells for Rs. 699 in the store. The game costs $50 on Steam and $30 at Amazon . Flipkart sells it for Rs 622( ~$13 ).
Though eventually Steam could get the pricing down to $10, its a good grab if you do not want to carry CDs around since Steam manages your games and progress on the cloud.
If you are India, you could buy from flipkart for the best price.
Background on TextMate : TextMate is one of the best text editors for Mac OS. SeeWikipedia for timeline. The only downside some users see is it costs for the license ~ $58 or INR 2600 . People tell me its worth the money. TextMate 2 (which is supposed to be cooler than TexMate 1 ) is in development since couple of years and due to be released later this year .
How often are TODO lists used : The first thing I’d need when planning for a project or a small task is the planning state where the list down the requirements with a priority and get it done.
Remember the Milk (RTM) is my favorite todo list trackers (along side tadalist.com by 37signals ) which help you track ACTIONS that are recurring etc and keep note of things and remind you on the day prior to the event.
There are not many tools available on the net that are decent in terms of presentation, convenience and sharing. Some people do not prefer their data to be present on the Cloud vs private hosting. In most cases, private hosting requires maintenance while the other one requires a recurring premium account. Its just preference of money vs time. There are hundreds ( may be even thousands) of TODO tracking applications and every one seek out the best one for them.
TextMate and TODO: TextMate comes with built in TODO bundle with a decent way to track TODOs in the project files
You can track how many more TODOs you have in your project. This is good if you have your code at a certain level. But, how do you start at ‘Level 0’ when there is no foundation ?
Tasks.tmbundle for TextMate : Henrik Nyh wrote a bundle for TexMate – Tasks.tmbundle which illustrates a very simple TODO tracker within a text editor. Tasks.tmbundle is one simple application inside the text editor which helps you keep track of stuff though. Simplifies things for me for updating my resume every year and the TODO I have been tracking for months.
P.S. : There are some people who switched their OS because they fell in love with one single application. One of them is the author of tasks.tmbundle – Henrik
Type in ⌘+ , to open Preferences in the Dictionary.app . Click on Wikipedia . Choose your language to search wikipedia from for queries.
Reason for this – Cloud App has a new feature and the present free accounts that are present can use it for only for 3 months.
Adapted from the course book for Principles of Programming Language – Concepts, Techniques, And Models Of Computer Programming from Flipkart.com ( Amazon link ) by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi .
Food for thought: Which kind of data should I be storing in services like CloudApp and which in Dropbox like services ? I decided to go with Dropbox, Tumblr and GitHub. Since data from dropbox stays and there is an easy way to backup from tumblr and GitHub is the new sf.net . I think I should re-factor the above into another blog post 🙂
There are quite a few services for Mac OS X listed in the dropbox wiki . I thought if I could write my own that would store a file or a directory into the Public folder of Dropbox and yup, it was simple enough. The shell script used is hosted at Git Hub – https://gist.github.com/747501 (requires configuration). Automator script is here – http://bit.ly/b44McN (my Dropbox Public Folder).
Bitly ( A famous url shortener with analytics tracking ) API –http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
SIMBL literally FUBARed my Safari 5 (till the last minute). Having not such much experience using a Mac (aka a n00b) , I installed SIMBL for couple of extensions like lastpass for Safari couple of months back. It was not a sad moment till Safari started hanging up and not responding after installing the new extensions(which is similar to Firefox and Chrome extension list) on Safari 5 couple of weeks back. I am back on track with Safari now, though some of the websites I use often are not yet supported and probably wont be supported on Safari.
Lesson learnt : RTFM (abbr: Read The Fucking Manual)
SIMBL supports Safari for 32 bit machines is being supported on the site and the version I downloaded is not supposed to support Safari 5 (which has been released less than a month ago).
My random checking on the Activity Monitor led me SIMBL taking as much as 400 Megs of Virt Mem which is literally a LOT and uninstalling SIMBL and starting Safari . All of it did not even take more than 1 minute for which I have wasted loads of 5mins.
TODO: Keep a note of what all you have installed and why. ( this is the toughest thing that is going to be for me or anyone. So, how can we do this ? )
Safari and SIMBL are registered trademarks or what so ever of their respective owners or creators.
Windows 7 Upgrade
Snow Leopard Upgrade
Two major commercial companies are trying to SELL their upgrades containing more security fixes, UI enhancements and probably less OS crashes & annoyances(only applicable to M$ products, as everyone knows it).
$30 << $200 ??
Guess I start to understand what the future holds for an Applr 🙂
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