MemoryMiner

Ask almost any indie Mac developer what the best thing about developing for the Mac is and they’ll tell you it’s the community of developers. I’ve found this to be the case ever since I started developing MemoryMiner back in 2005. In fact, there was a guy who named Justin Williams who early on gave [...]

It’s been been just over a week since MemoryMiner 2.0 was released. This version was way too long coming, but such is the nature of software sometimes. As I’ve said many times on the MDN show (a podcast for indie Mac developers on which I’m a co-host) finished software does not a product make: you [...]

It’s Wednesday, so that can only mean one thing: Scotty has been lax about getting the latest MDN Show podcast edited and ready for the world. Complaints about the excess time needed to make my crummy audio sound good no longer hold water, since I went out and spent my son’s college education fund on [...]

I’m really starting to love this podcasting gig. My friend Borris (not his real name, or is it?) will doubtlessly bitch and moan about the audio quality of my voice (I’m getting a proper mic, I swear), but the witty repartee between me and Scotty is getting better all the time. Give a listen here: [...]

Would it kill you to hire competent translators? Originally uploaded by j4johnfox Having an Italian wife means spending lots of time in Italy. I really enjoy collecting examples of crummy translations, so I couldn’t pass this one up. Click on the image to see the note in Flickr (created with MemoryMiner, natch).

Hulu Offended Originally uploaded by j4johnfox Like millions of people, I found the recent Saturday Night Live digital short called “Mother Lover” to be utterly hilarious. I wanted to share it with some family members so went to use Hulu’s share by email functionality. However, I discovered that the use of the word “piss” (as [...]

I love seeing examples of MemoryMiner in use. Here’s an ongoing project (inspired by the Magnes Memory Lab), that’s going on at the Fort Collins Museum & Discovery Science Center: http://fcmdsc.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/second-installment-of-the-fort-collins-memory-project/ More background on the project can be found here: http://fcmdsc.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/fort-collins-memory-project/ An interesting point that they brought up in their description of the the project [...]

By now, I’ve done quite a number of Podcasts talking about MemoryMiner. Most of them have been with people I’ve never met in-person. Heres’s one with someone I hope to meet some day: Sherry Borzo, who hosts a show called Entrepreneur People Real Stories. The show delves in the back stories of entrepreneurs as they [...]

I just watched the intro movie for the new iPod Shuffle with its VoiceOver feature and it made me curious. Depending on what OS is running on the computer to which it’s sync’d, you get a different quality of artificial voice. On OS X Leopard you get “Alex” which, while quite good, still sounds pretty [...]

I promised a post on this topic a while ago, so here goes. It was hardly a few minutes into the iPhoto 09 section of the Macworld Keynote when people started contacting me to see if I was mad/upset/etc. Truth is, I was kind of wondering what took Apple so long. The quote “good artists [...]