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Clickable Bliss releases invoicing tracking app for OS X
From the “Blissfully blissful” desk…
Today Mac shareware developer Clickable Bliss (gotta love that name!) released Billable, an application designed to streamline invoicing for services. Billable is chock full of features such as client tracking, Address Book integration, a timer to keep track of how long a service took to complete (if you charge on an hourly basis), and XML export.
Billable requires Mac OS X 10.4.4. or later. Through October 31, Billable can be purchased for $19.95; after that the price will increase to $24.95. A 30-day demo is available if you’re curious. Also, Clickable Bliss posted a screencast for your viewing enjoyment. Hopefully Deep Thought will have a review of Billable 1.0 soon.
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| Nick | comments | views |
Stupid Spotlight Tricks
Been working all day getting tons of graphics resized in a Photoshop Action script, and I can’t help but to laugh at how stupid this is:
Sometimes I wonder at the people programming some of the things at Apple,
Why-o-why can’t I enter exact numbers???
Can anyone guess what magic numbers I was looking for? :p
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| SogniX | comments | views |
The Blue Whale of Cameras
Have you ever wanted to own a camera that was as tall as your head, three times as wide, and could take pictures at a resolution of 160 megapixels, then you can place a pre-order for the Seitz 6X17 Digital for the low low low low low price of only 45,500 Swiss Francs ($36,354.51 in the US, sez the handy Currency Gadget.)
This baby takes photos in the aforementioned resolution of 160 megapixels (21,250 x 7,500), which equates to about 1 gigabyte per image. “What could possibly be used to store the pictures that you take with this thing?” you may ask. Well, it’s not those new CompactFlash cards that are going to be released soon. It’s not even going to be stored in the camera. Instead, you’ll lug a modified Mac Mini around with you (seen at left) and transfer all pictures to it as they are taken using gigabit Ethernet. Yes, folks, you are no longer a true photographer unless your pictures are transferred to a computer over a network grade cable. That means no FireWire, USB, or smoke signal.
The touch screen used on the camera weighs in at 640 x 480, and can be detached from the camera to allow for remote control. This makes one wonder how much battery life something like this has. One would then realize that the most logical way to power a camera of this grade is to plug it directly into your own personal nuclear reactor.
Each camera is “hand made”…
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| Liam | comments | views |
See, this is why I hate iTunes…
How does a company as revered as Apple mess up something as simple as a Pause button?
So let’s say i’m listening to an album in iTunes. ‘s all good. But then the phone rings, or I click over to YouTube, or something happens that makes me pause the music. Still no problem. But then I head back to iTunes, maybe check out the store, search for an artist or something. I don’t find what i’m looking for, so I hit the Play button to resume the album I was listening to.
Only it doesn’t resume the album; instead, it starts playing whatever I am looking at in the store. And it drives me completely insane!
People call this intuitive!? When I click “Pause” it means I want to hold it in that position so I can resume viewing/listening to it later. That’s how Pause buttons work. It doesn’t mean it should completely forget what I was listening to and play something else.
Every other jukebox application implements a persistent Now Playing list which never changes unless you explicitly tell it to. Why can’t iTunes implement this simple feature? And while they’re at it, how about throwing in a “Stop” button? I know Apple loves its iconic three-button “Rewind, Play/Pause, Forward” button arrangement, but for the love of God, the Pause button is completely broken!
Am I the only one who sees this? How does a company as revered as Apple mess up something as simple as a Pause button?
Is Steve’s RDF really that strong?
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Apple Showtime: The accumulation of everything ripped off
It's good to know that the photocopiers up in Cupertino are in good working order.
Apple’s Showtime event just wrapped up, and the new products announced read like a Microsoft Windows Media feature list… circa 2004.
Let’s go down the list, shall we?
First up, iTunes 7:
Movies: Windows Media Player has been playing movies since version 7, and a several movie stores were added in version 9. WMPs movie stores have movies from several major studios, not just Disney-owned studios.
CoverFlow: This is perhaps the only truly new feature iTunes 7 has. But it is purely aesthetic.
Automatic Album Art: Windows Media Player has been doing this since version 8, five years ago.
New User Interface: All of a sudden, iTunes looks suspiciously like Windows Media Player, with songlists grouped and stacked by artist and album, with prominent cover art adorning each group. Just like Windows Media Player does it in version 11 beta.
iPod Games: Another new, yet largely useless feature. Who wants to re-buy games for their iPod when they already have them for their phone (or they have a PSP or DS which provides a much better game experience?)
iPod Summary: Well, it’s about time Apple used its iPod+iTunes “synergy” for something that doesn’t involve restricting consumer choice.
Download Manager: This is one feature I wish Windows media Player did have. Unfortunately, Microsoft leaves it to its PlaysForSure store partners to create their own addon Download Managers, and that is probably the only reason why PlaysForSure isn’t as seamless as iPod+iTunes. At least not yet.
Higher Video Resolution: It’s about time. ‘nuff…
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