Software Trenches

Google News and Leopard

Google News know about my interest in Leopard :)

1Passwd on TUAW Podcast

David Chartier posted a great video podcast about 1Passwd this morning. See it in action in TUAW Podcast #22:

Paying Attention

Seth Godin speaks at the Greater Baltimore Technology Council. His message is short:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Ch2z5ftwQ

Ideas that spread, win. To spread the idea you need people to pay attention. It used to be very easy to buy attention with advertising — if you need more attention then you buy more ads. And that is how TV-Industrial complex worked.

The news are: TV-Industrial complex has been canceled.

If you are trying to solve a problem for people:

• who do not know that you exist,
• do not want to know that you exist, or
• do not have a problem they believe you can solve

then you are in trouble and you need to change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-GmJWpmcSo

0xED and OD

Every once in a while you need to see the file in a binary format. On Mac you can do this with 0xED, a great little utility from Suavetech.

Here is how we used 0xED to find the problem in parsing different Firefox profile files:

Also, od (octal dump) is a command-line utility that you can use to print the contents of the file in decimal, hexadecimal or octal format.