Author Archives: M. Dave Auayan

Dock Full of Pulled iPhone Apps

I realized I have a few apps that are now rare collector’s items. The four apps in my dock in the screenshot are the four apps that I heard were pulled from the app store.
For accuracy’s sake, PhoneSaber was pulled by the developer (though not before was threatened by THX (LukasArts?)).
Surely, there is [...]

HTML 5 Linking Demo

Eric Meyer has created a quick and dirty demo that shows us how elements in HTML 5 can become hyperlinks.
He had an issue where it wouldn’t show any visited “links” properly, and seeing a need for it, I tossed in a few lines of very dirty javascript to fix it. The javascript inserts some [...]

And for my third trick…

We’ve finally launchedstevejobsfacts.com. That makes the 3rd project to launch in 3 days. So yeah, I’m a bit tired.
So tired, in fact, that it took me one month, and sixteen days, and five hours to actually click the publish button.

Photoshop and Spotlight (or Quicksilver) Shortcut: CMD+SPACE

I’ve been annoyed for the last few years that the Photoshop Creative Suite versions never played nicely with the system shortcut cmd+space. That shortcut in Photoshop is a zoom tool that I use, hold the keys down, click and drag to zoom to the selected area. Convenient. However, by default, that same shortcut cmd+space in [...]

WordPress for the iPhone

Oh wow. It’s finally out and way awesome. This is way easier that trying to use the Wordpress admin page in Mobile Safari.
Here’s a photo of it in action:

I am writing this while watching Gotham Knight with my daughter. I think she may be a bit of a Batman nut.
Oh, and here’s a link: WordPress [...]

busyness and whatnot

I can’t believe how crazy busy we’ve been. On top of moving, and travelling the globe, in the last couple months, I have somehow managed to find time to start redesinging and rewriting the interface and software that power one of our websites.
In the last 24 hours even, I managed to launch a new [...]

(Trying to) Capture MultiTouch Gestures With Javascript

I recently bought a new MacBook Pro, complete with the MultiTouch trackpad. One issue I have with it, is that I can’t use the pinch zoom gesture with web based maps or images. It increases font size, instead of zooming. So I donned my cape and exclaimed “This looks like a job for JAVASCRIPT!”
First, I [...]

ExpanDrive, The Finder, and OS X Accounts

I may be in the minority in using multiple accounts on a mac, but I figure this may help some people.
Me and my wife shared* a MacBook for a while and I was constantly wanting to transfer files from one of our user accounts home directory to the other. I don’t think there is [...]

OpenTerminalHere.app Update

Since Leopard released, I’ve been using Spotlight as a launcher. It works surprisingly well; however, I’ve run into a couple things. One of which being if I type “terminal” into spotlight, the “Top Hit” is OpenTerminalHere.app - which if you launch it without any finder windows, it would error out.
Now I *could* have just [...]

Leopard Spaces Background

After getting annoyed with the fact that Spaces doesn’t use desktop image for the background of the individual spaces, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to set that quite yet, I decided to avoid the weird disconnect, I’d set my desktop to the gradient that Spaces uses.
Here you go… in 1280×1024:

and in [...]

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