So somehow my recently released widget made it over to the folks at Softpedia. Here is the email they sent me:
Hello,
Your product “CCIE Rack Availability 1.0″ has been tested by the Softpedia labs and found to be
completely clean of adware/spyware components.
We are impressed with the quality of your product and encourage you to keep
this […]
OSX Widget Passes Inspection
New CCIE Rack Rental Widget
I have just finished programming a new OSX Dashboard Widget. It checks the current pricing and availability for CCIE Routing and Switching, CCIE Security, CCIE Voice and CCIE Security racks. The process for creating a widget is pretty straight forward. The only part that wasn’t support out of the box was making AJAX calls to […]
Half as many free iPhone apps hit app store as paid apps
It seems the rush of free iPhone applications is slowing. Today, for example there were four applications released in the free section: Clowdy Photo Blogger, Vecka, Writing Pad, and Quitter. However, there were eight new applications for the iPhone which cost money: eWallet, Jade, Kenkou, Moo Box, Shout It, Sketches, SuperPong, and Tiny Violin. […]
The Real Top 10 Free iPhone Applications
So, you have your iPhone 3g or you are keeping it old school and decided to keep your old iPhone and upgrade to 2.0. Either way, hopefully you have visited the App Store on your iPhone or through iTunes. On either your computer or phone you have probably seen the top 25 free […]
#1 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#1. Synergy
Synergy is a great application and a must have for those people with more than one computer at their desk. Basically, Synergy is a KVM but done through software. This means that you can use the same mouse and keyboard across all your multiple machines, even if one is windows, one […]
#2 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#2. Chicken of the VNC
At the number two spot is a great way to connect to your computer from home with out paying a dime. If you have leopard, then potentially you already have this feature, known as back to my mac. However, this requires a DotMac account. Which again is not […]
#3 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#3. Skype
If you haven’t herd of Skype you must be living under a rock. Skype is a great application which allows the user to make free Skype-to-Skype calls and very cheap Skype-to-Lan calls (Skype Out). There are other programs which make this program even better such as the new iPhone application Fring. Also, […]
#4 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#4. Transmission
Simply put Transmission is a fast, simple, and super easy to use bit-torrent client. As, mentioned in the #18 Azureus, bit torrent is the fresh peer-2-peer file transfer protocol.Azureus is great, but it is a bit large and can be a bit more complicated than necessary. When you want a quick and […]
#5 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#5. MindNode
After a short hiatius I am back with the number 5 free Mac application. I’ve always had a problem with writing down ideas and when I do actually write them down, say in OmniOutliner, I usually forget what the goal is. What problem I’m trying to solve and how this is idea […]
#6 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#6. VLC
VLC is a media player that extends support past QuickTime formats, but it also supports WMV (a typical Windows formatted media file) streams as well as a host of other formats. One of the main draws to VLC is that it is capable of playing a movie even if it is not fully […]