New MacBook and MacBookPros

So, new hardware. On the pro side, the hard drive is no longer an ordeal to swap out, which is great for those of us in the enterprise. On the down side, no more target disk mode, which was always one of the great things about working on Macs.

More later once I've had a chance to use one for a couple of days.

Thin 1.0 is out

Marc André Cournoyer announced the release of Thin 1.0 on his blog last week.

Updating gem to 1.3 on OS X Leopard

wincent.com has a clear set of instructions on how to deal with errors updating gem to 1.3.0 on OS X.

Negadon and Miroku

If you're a fan of Godzilla and/or giant robot movies, you'll like this. All the feel of the 60s movies, but done with CGI.

Negadon and Miroku.

Run Ruby Script Automator Action

Jason Foreman published an Automator action that allows you to take advantage of Cocoa in Ruby scripts on his blog.

New Blog

My friend Jack is, among other things, a technical author. He's just set up a new site for his technology writing at http://jackherrington.com.

His latest book is on Flex, and is being published by O'Reilly. More details at his blog.

Tracks

Tracks is a GPL Rails application to help implement David Allen's "Getting Things Done".

I've installed it on my MBP and it looks great so far. You can tag tasks (and view only tasks for one tag), set up contexts such as work/home/misc and then view things grouped by context, set due dates, set tasks to only be visible after a certain date, view graphs and statistics about how long it takes you to complete tasks, comes with an API so you can write your own scripts to interact with it - it's very comprehensive.

Gem 1.1 released

Bug fixes, speedups. More details on Eric Hodel's blog. Update with
sudo gem update --system

iJailbreak bumped to 0.5.4 and nows supports 1.1.4

iJailbreak is a gui OS X wrapper for the ZiPhone utility.

The 0.5.4 release can jailbreak an iPhone running 1.1.4 directly and is available from http://code.google.com/p/ijailbreak/downloads/list, and you can read more details from the developers at http://ijailbreak.com/.

Suspicious Package update

Suspicious Package is a QuickLook plugin that lets you examine pkg (and now mpkg) files from Finder with QuickLook. No more having to drop into Terminal.app and use lsbom.

Here are the bullet points from the release notes:

• Added support for metapackages.


• Fixed problem where the actual installation location was not shown for some packages.


• Added indication when a package requires authentication with an administrator password.


• Added indication when a package requires a system restart (or shut down, or log out) after installation.


• Added indication when a package has install scripts, and an option to view the actual scripts (see details).


• Added support for installer receipts and .bom files

Download the new release from http://www.mothersruin.com.