What's it all about, Alfie?

This morning I saw that Cyberduck 3.0.3 is out - fixing a few "arbitrary crashes" and fixing the handling of the Web URLs. I'm not exactly sure what arbitrary crashes is all about, but I'm guessing that it's something that was hard to track down, they put a big hammer to it, not wanting to really dig in and find the problem, and this 'big hammer' solved the issue. Like making large blocks synchronous - it doesn't really find and solve the problem of multi-threading contention, it just removes it, and in removing it, the problem goes away.

But it's just a guess. Still, it's a nice app.

This morning I saw that OsiriX 3.3 is out and while I don't spend all day looking at the x-rays of the family, it's nice to see what they are doing and staying up do date. This update looks about the same, and I haven't had time to dig into the release notes for this version, but I'm guessing that there are a ton of under-the-covers changes for this guy. It's also fun to check out the x-rays every now and then, and an update means I'll fire up the app and have a look. Fun.

I have been having a lot of issues trying to get a blog editor on Windows and Linux that's decent. In fact, the only editing tool I've been able to use is really the WordPress editor. The others I've tried mess with the date/time stamp and make it impossible to really do what I need. But there's hope - ScribeFire.

I was looking for something about the date/time issues with Deepest Sender, and came across a link for ScribeFire, and decided to give it a try - couldn't hurt. I was very happy I did.

It's not exactly the UI I'd have chosen, but then again, it's not the worst I've seen. It works, and amazingly, it doesn't mess with the posting dates. That's great. Don't get me wrong, it's not MarsEdit, but then again, most of the postings I use Windows and Linux for are work-related, and that's easy stuff.

Anyway... I have a new blogging client and I'm hoping it works every bit as well as I hope.

At the end of the final debate, the candidates got up and I guess McCain was going to shake Obama's hand, but this was what was caught on TV:

If I were in the McCain Camp, I'd do my best to make this funny -- and try to play it off... otherwise, it looks very very troubling.

The more I look at this, the more troubling it looks. I know how people felt in the Ford Administration when he was always falling. Had to be a horrible feeling.

I found this little tidbit this morning in my RSS feeds... it's saying that the 17-inch MacBook Pro is only slightly delayed due to some problems with the display and optical drive. Fair enough. Looks like it's going to be an interesting January, as the MacWorld conference would be a perfect place to showcase this new release.

I'm still hoping that it's going to come in a quad-core version... but if not, then it'll be a tougher decision on if it's time to buy or not. The all-in-one case would be very nice for me, but the rest of the notebook is pretty much the same as I have. Yeah, a little faster, but not a world faster.

Looks like I've got to wait a few more months to see.

Once again I got a nice little tweet from MarsEdit that it was ready to go with lots of little fixes for version 2.2.1. Many, it seems, are specific to the Atom publishing protocol, and the tweet said that it was happily speeding towards 2.3.

Good enough. Got it, and am using it right now. Super.

There aren't a lot of Dashboard widgets that I really use a lot - but I have to say, Calc Board is one of them, and today they released Calc Board 1.6 which includes the ability to resize the board as well as change the font and save the contents to the desktop. It's a very nice upgrade.

The interface is simple, clean, has great features. It's just a great little application.

I started playing with Blender several years ago on my SGI Indigo² High Impact and it was impressive. Those were the days before it was bought by the community - which, to me, remains one of the great stories of the internet age: a company can't support the product any longer, doesn't want to give it away, sets a price and the community gets enough donations to actually buy it. Amazing.

Anyway, today they released Blender 2.48 and I got that for my Mac. It's an amazing app, and like Photoshop, it takes an amazing artist to create something nice on it. I am not that artist. However, I want to be, and someday I hope to have the time to work on it. Which is why I keep updating.

I hadn't pulled up iConquer recently and for some reason I decided to run it and see if there had been an update. Sure enough, there had! iConquer 2.4.6 downloaded and I installed it. I had a very hard time finding the release notes, but I'm guessing it's general updates for little bugs in the code from OS X 10.5.5, or some bugs found by the users.

In all honesty, I've been way too busy to play a game, but I do like it every now and then, and maybe with the bad news from Apple today, I should have taken the time to play a game to cheer me up. Oh well... no time now.

I got a tweet from Twitterrific itself about using it with Present.ly, and in that posting, it mentioned that 3.2b3 was available. I wasn't sure if I had the latest beta - which uses https:// for transfers as opposed to the previous http:// protocol. Not that I think anyone is really trying to snoop my tweets, but there are other improvements, and if security is free, why not take advantage of it?

Nothing spectacular, but it's nice to be up to date (for certain). It'd be great if they incorporated Sparkle, but that's up to them.