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T-Shirts for the rejected or soon-to-be rejected iPhone app developer in your life


banned 20080929 181616 T Shirts for the rejected or soon to be rejected iPhone app developer in your lifeIf you’ve been watching the Mac news sites over the past few months you’ve no doubt read about how Apple is banning applications from the iTunes App Store that either directly compete with their own software or fail to provide enough usefulness in the eyes of Apple. Frankly, I think Apple has handled this very poorly and I can only hope that by the time developers gather en mass at the next WWDC that Apple has either smartened up or the developers have revolted.

Anyway, on to the shirts.

The first design was created for those developers who have worked diligently to create the best application that they are capable of only to have Apple deem the application a bit too good (better than their own). For those developers we have the Banned From The App Store T-Shirt.

limitedutility 20080929 181639 T Shirts for the rejected or soon to be rejected iPhone app developer in your lifeThe second shirt is for those that may have had their app tossed out of the App Store for being useless or managed to get it in in spite of it being useless–those with with so-called “limited utility.” The Limited Utility T-Shirt allows you to display Apple’s unjust judgement of your app for all to see…but expect to feel the rejection as you walk around in this one.

Each of these designs is available on a men’s heavyweight cotton T-shirt in black in sizes Small to XX-Large. Each sells for USD$21.90

As always, these and many more shirts and other goodies are available in The MacMerc Store. Please check out the selection there. Our designs can also be found at PleaseDress.Me, an awesome T-Shirt search engine.

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Don’t try this at home– Store Time Machine info on your boot drive

timemachine 20071216 152859 Dont try this at home   Store Time Machine info on your boot driveI realize that Time Machine is not SuperDuper! As Tom Yager (no relation) puts it “Time Machine is archiving, not data protection.” I get that, but for most people who are going to use Time Machine as their primary means of backup, it doesn’t matter–they don’t care and, for the most part, that’s okay. If their drive fails, they will expect their external Time Machine drive to save them. And, if everything is in order, it probably will.

One exception in the probability of this positive outcome is if they use a partition of their boot drive as their Time Machine volume, as this article explains. When (yes, when) their boot drive fails, the whole drive fails.

The article makes a good point about the usefulness of a Time Machine partition on the boot drive:

…this solution might…be useful if you simply need to recover previous versions of files or files involuntary deleted.

And also correctly warns of the inherent dangers:

backups performed by Time Machine will place heavy request on HD heads, and could lead to a shorter life cycle. (Ed. see previous comment about the inevitablity of drive failures)

I’ll leave you with a quote from Jurassic Park which, for me, sums up my feelings on a large chunk of geek stunts like this one:

“…your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

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Boost the usefulness of QuickLook with these free plugins

quicklook 20071126 200946 Boost the usefulness of QuickLook with these free pluginsOver the last few days, I’ve noticed a few QuickLook plugins popping up and I thought I would link you to a few of them.

First, there is the Folder QuickLook Plugin which allows you to see the contents of folders from QuickLook including invisible files and time stamps.

From the same developer comes Zip QuickLook Plugin, a handy add-on that lets you look inside .zip files without taking the time to decompress them.

Last but not least, EPSQLPlugIn lets you get previews on EPS files in QuickLook from the Finder.

If you know about any other cool QuickLook plugins, please let me know.

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