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Frustrating this is – there still is no GTD tool that fits my needs. Let me give a quick (very personal) comparison of the tools that are currently available on the Mac. Please let me know if I have been missing out on one.

While all are great in their own unique way they do always miss out in some essential aspects. At least some that I consider important. But let me give a quick overview of the tools I have looked at
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…or how not to treat your customers

Actually I wanted to have blogged about this way earlier. Now that I wanted to scan I got reminded of this whole story that wants me to just scream out “Don’t!!! Don’t buy VueScan!!”.
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Sorry it took so long …but finding a place unfortunately turned out to be harder than I thought. We will now meet up at Club Voltaire near “Alte Oper”. (Thanks for the pointer, Chris!) We’ll have a room and a beamer – for now sponsored by me. Not entirely sure about their wifi situation yet.

I think it would be great to have a few shorts talks. Please let me know if you have something you wouldn’t mind talking about. I myself am happy to give a quick introduction to the FeedbackReporter framework. But any topic around Cocoa programming is fine. Feel also free to bring your own code and questions. Afterwards for some drinks.

So until you hear otherwise – it’s on:

CocoaHeads Frankfurt,
Monday, 07.07.2008 19:00 at Club Voltaire

Please shoot me a mail or add a comment if you are coming. Especially if you have something you could ramble about for a few minutes.

I am also holding a second slot on Friday. Let me know quickly if you prefer the Friday. I will add the fixed date to upcoming and post to the usual places on Monday.

Update: The link is up on upcoming. Would be great if the people who are coming could indicate so over there. See you next week! Cheers!

Man, HTML+CSS authoring is so frustrating. You probably don’t just have to be pragmatic but just have to accept the many hacks that are still(!!) required to work around all the spec and browser limitations. So who is to blame? Read the rest of this entry »

This exploit is so embarrassingly simple that is makes you wonder. (Or maybe you just don’t want to know?) For now it seems safer to not just turn off but also remove suid bit from the Apple Remote Desktop app.

sudo chmod u-s /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent

And you should be safe for now. Let’s hope Apple gets this fixed quickly. Shocking!