Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire:

They can go f*** themselves. They just lost my vote. I’m planning to not vote in the next election. There’s no way I’d vote for a republican, and the democrats don’t deserve my vote either. Yes, I know I can vote for the Libertarian candidate, but I’d be making a bigger statement by not voting.

Via MacNN | The Macintosh News Network:

Toyota on Friday released an iPod Integration Kit that works in all current Toyota and Lexus models. The kit, first announced in early May, is installed in the vehicle’s glove box: it connects Apple’s iPod directly to the car’s audio system and can recharge the iPod’s battery, according to Leftlane News. Once connected, all of the iPod’s functions …

No word on whether it supports the touch screen in a Prius.

First Rove. Then Gonzales, Now Tony Snow resigned. Any bets on when Cheney will quit?

Exactly two years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. While I was at the gym today, Magnolia Soul by Ozomatli came up in shuffle on my iPhone. A very appropriate song for today.

Via MetaFilter: Hilly Kristal has died at age 75. First the club, now the man.

• Toolchain Project – The iPhone Dev Wiki
  GCC and other tools for building native iPhone software
  (tags: iPhone development)

I tried to sell my old MacBook Pro on eBay. I got one bid, for my original asking price, but when I sent the invoice, the buyer sent me the following email:

i am sorry,i dont wanna buy your laptop because it is old macbookpro.i supposed to new one.

I think I made it very clear here that it’s an old MacBook Pro, not a new one.

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This is why I hate eBay. I use it about once a year or less when I have some old equipment to sell. Most of my old Macs I traded in at PowerMax, but since they don’t do BTO, I had to buy my new one directly from Apple.

It was bound to happen sooner or later. There’s a virus affecting Twitter now. It shows up as a link in someone’s tweet containing Chinese characters. If you click that link, it will post a tweet containing that same link. At least 4 people I’m following have spread it.

Competition is definitely a good thing for Mac virtualization software. I had switched to VMware because I found it to be faster than Parallels (at least on my old MacBook Pro). When Parallels released their new beta yesterday I decided to give it another chance and I was pleasantly surprised.

It now feels faster than VMware and the improved Coherence looks great. Unlike VMware, it boots directly into Coherence; with VMware I have to switch manually into Unity after it finishes starting up. It also doesn’t seem to slow down other applications as much as it did on my old MacBook Pro. It does seem to run down the battery faster than VMware if I use it unplugged, though.

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• Groupware Bad
  If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
  (tags: software development)

Via UNEASYsilence:

In other words, they’re forcing him to run Windows.

I found this Topknot, M.I.A. and Cornershop remix at Boing Boing and I’m hooked. I don’t know where it came from originally, but I’d love to hear more like that.

My headline from yesterday was probably misleading. I only “unlocked” my iPhone so I can install third party software and my own ring tones, but here’s the real deal. George Hotz figured out how to really unlock the iPhone so it can use SIM cards other than AT&T’s, such as T-Mobile, using a hardware hack. Now, the people at iphoneSIMfree.com have found a software-only hack for unlocking an iPhone.

Since I already have a two year contract with AT&T, which I had even before I got my iPhone, there’s no reason for me to do it.

I finally got brave enough to install the Installer App on my iPhone so I can use third party software. The apps I installed so far are Launcher, SendSong, Lights Off, Finder, and Term vt100. I can also now connect to it via ssh.

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• Hobbit’s techie-rants
  Lots of Prius tech info & hacks
  (tags: prius hacking)

Engadget tells of someone receiving a Dell XPS M1330 laptop without an OS, no system BIOS and several other defects.

The $2k+ laptop looked fine at first glance, but when Pradeep popped it open and hit the power button, it immediately booted to a blank, white, flickering screen. After 10 minutes, nothing had changed, no Dell logo, Vista boot screen or anything — not only had Dell forgotten an OS, they didn’t even manage to squeeze in a system BIOS before they shipped this one. That wasn’t all that Dell screwed up on this M1330, the power button is defective, the Microsoft seal underneath the machine is partially ripped and burned, there’s a problem with a grill cover protruding, and the WiFi radio switch is so loose it almost falls off when pushed back and forth.

When writing Objective C code, never forget to have your init method return self or bad things will happen, but maybe not in a debug build. I wasted over an hour on that today when my debug build worked perfectly but a release build crashed in awakeFromNib where it was initializing a series of items for a TabView. One of them had an init method that looked like this:

- (id)init
{
	if (self = [super init]) {
		[self loadStateNames];
	}
	// oops - I forgot something here
}

For some mysterious reason it didn’t fail in a debug build, and I couldn’t place a breakpoint to debug a release build, so I had to resort to “ghetto debugging” using CFShow. Instead of a panel object, I was seeing an array of state names! Adding return self; cured it.

Via B12 Solipsism :

Via Laptop Security Blog:

Read the full article here.

• Cocoa Bindings Programming Topics
  (tags: cocoa programming reference)