Monthly Archives: October 2006

Rotten Tomatoes Halloween Party

Posted on October 28, 2006 by Adam Tow

Update: Now with photos from the party! Cobra La La La La La La! I’m off to ride in the Low-Key Hillclimb Series ride #3 up Mt. Diablo, so I don’t have the time to post some more photos. Here’s … Continue reading →

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AppleScript System Events Slowness

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Adam Tow

In Timeature, I have the app tell Aperture to switch to the Library via AppleScript. What should be a very fast operation turns out to be glacially slow. Any AppleScript wizards care to explain why this is the case? Here’s … Continue reading →

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Low-Key Hillclimbs #2: Old La Honda

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Adam Tow

With the slew of work this week, I haven’t had time to put down my thoughts on the second Low-Key Hillclimb ride up Old La Honda until now. I’ve been riding up this benchmark climb to Skyline Road off and … Continue reading →

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Localization Help Needed

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Adam Tow

In the course of the next week, I expect to have three software applications for Mac OS X available: Annoture, Timeature, and a yet-to-be released enhancement for Apple Mail. I’ve gotten help localizing my apps into French and German. What … Continue reading →

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Annoture 1.0.1 and Timeature 1.0.2

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Adam Tow

I need to fire myself and hire a real QA team. A couple of international users discovered a problem related to number formats and localization in Timeature and Annoture. Since both apps share some of the same codebase, I had … Continue reading →

Posted in Annoture, Aperture, Development, Journal, Photography, Timeature | 9 Comments

Annoture 1.0 Released!

Posted on October 24, 2006 by Adam Tow

I’m happy to announce that Annoture 1.0 has been released! It’s taken me a little longer than I expected to get it out, but I think it will be worth the wait. Users of iView MediaPro and Aperture who need … Continue reading →

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Timeature 1.0.1 Updated

Posted on October 24, 2006 by Adam Tow

I updated Release Candidate 1 of Timeature to full release status. One change was made in the application to overcome a bug discovered in a SQL statement call by Timeature.

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DVF Kickoff Photos

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Adam Tow

A little late in coming. Here are photos from the Digital Vision Program’s Kickoff event earlier this month. From Karen’s description of the night: The DV Open House was a hit – more than 80 members of our Silicon Valley … Continue reading →

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Server Down

Posted on October 22, 2006 by Adam Tow

Had a router blow a fan at the CoLo last night. Sorry for the interruption in service. Things should be back up and running now.

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Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!

Posted on October 18, 2006 by Adam Tow

Bugs are the bane of any software developer’s life. Many of us would much rather focus on adding new functionality than fixing things that are broken. It’s sad truth in engineering that a vast majority of time is often spent … Continue reading →

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