The future of software is on the web. That’s what they keep telling me. I just smile, and say “I don’t think so. There will always be compelling technologies on the desktop.” I believe this, but I admit it carries an odor of blind loyalty to my comfort zone. People who argue the other [...]

Yesterday, nearly 150 indie Mac developers participated in a promotion to raise money for Haiti. I’m pleased to report that the project was an outstanding success. I will not be surprised if the total money raised exceeds $100K. As for Red Sweater, we contributed a not too shabby $2,300 to Partners In Health. Way to pull [...]

My friend Justin Williams teamed up with Garrett Murray to organize an incredible charity software drive: Indie Relief. Nearly 150 developers are participating, and have pledged to donate the proceeds from today’s software sales to a variety of charities benefiting earthquake-stricken Haiti. One of the unfortunate bits of confusion to arise out of the program [...]

Dave Dribin offers a couple really handy tips for modifying the behavior of the “sudo” command-line tool, which allows ordinary admin users to acquire superuser powers for editing files, changing permissions, etc. Handy Sudo Settings – Dave Dribin’s Blog I knew about the ability to change the sudo timeout, but have never gotten around to [...]