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iPhone & OS X DIY: Take Control Of Your Holiday Displays With Griswold

Written on December 16, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 3 people have commented

“Wouldn’t it be cool if you could control your Christmas lights from your iPhone?” That simple question, posed in passing eleven days ago by a good friend, set off a flurry of activity which has become Griswold.app (for the iPhone/iPod touch) and Griswold Server (for OS X Leopard, Windows and Linux/BSD). Both are being released [...]

ActiveState Takes Komodo Edit To The Community

Written on March 13, 2008 by Bob Rudis and No one has commented

As I’ve been catching up from an illness backlog, I came across this press release from ActiveState – providers of commercially-supported versions of Perl, Python & TCL – on their decision to take their great editor Komodo Edit open source. This editor has been based on the Mozilla code base, and the open source version [...]

Quick & Secure Network Filesystem Access With ExpanDrive

Written on February 26, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 7 people have commented

Magnetk – makers of SftpDrive for Windows – have brought their secure, remote filesystem magic to OS X with version 1.0 of ExpanDrive.
If you have a blog/site hosted on any flavor of Linux or BSD (including OS X) or do any amount of cross-platform management or development then you know how useful ssh is for speedy [...]