Once again Apple has been kind enough to feature Candor Gallery on the Dashboard homepage. We already have quite a few new works coming in this morning and hope to have those posted this evening. Thanks to Apple for the extra exposure and to everyone that is contributing to Candor!
The Tennessee Traffic Camera Widget has been updated to version 1.2 adding 20 new cameras to the Nashville area. Here is a list of the new camera locations:
Merredith and I have officially signed the papers for our new dwelling to be built in the hills of Hendersonville, Tennessee. If all goes well, the house should be complete in June.
I was playing around with the Android SDK today and took some screenshots. There’s actually much more to play with than I was expecting. Almost all the apps in the demo video are present, including the browser and the maps application. There’s also a lot of API demos included as well. Now I just need the time to teach myself Java.
Likes
1. File Renaming. Finder no longer selects the file extension when renaming files. A seemingly tiny change, but immensely helpful.
2. Tabs and themes in Terminal. What else can you say about tabs?
Dislikes
1. Mail. This is likely partly due to our ailing Exchange server, but trying to delete or cut messages results in a lock-up of Mail app nearly every time. Cutting more than one message? Guaranteed lock-up. Been having weird UI artifacts as of late as well.
2. The menu bar’s translucency. The biggest downer is the fact that there’s no justification for it. I keep wanting to push my apps up to the top of the screen because the menu bar appears to not be there in my peripheral vision. The bar and the menus are inconsistent in transparency. Why is the bar more transparent than the menu? I’d really like a good design/UI/user experience rational for this one.
Overall Leopard has been seamless. Upgrading went smooth, existing apps work, Safari is super snappy. There’s not much to really complain about and that’s certainly a good thing. Now I’m just waiting on Adobe to release a CS3 update to get the PDF printer functioning again.
Our street was featured on the news again this past Halloween. This time for more speeding issues. (We made national news a few weeks ago.)
Due to terrible city and neighborhood planning, our narrow little street is a main thoroughfare for the rest of our neighborhood. As a result, most drivers abuse the 25mph speed limit, cruising through at nearly double the speed.
Many small children live and play on our street so we’ve contacted the city on a number of occasions to ask for assistance in keeping the speed limit enforced. We’ve even had them come out to look for themselves. As a result, we have seen little help. From the news story:
“The city administrator sat in my kitchen and witnessed this first hand. That was about a year ago. The only thing they could do was put more speed limit signs up. Have they? Absolutely not, nothing has been done,†she said.
LaVergne City Administrator Mark Moshea refused to do an interview about the problem but said he plans to look into it.
Granted, it’s also the responsibility of the neighbors to respect others and drive through at a reasonable speed, but at the same time La Vergne is small. There isn’t a lot for the police to do in this town. They could take some time to enforce the speed limit.
But hey, our very own Taco Bell just opened!
Sad.
Update: In february we had a few days of regular speed traps on our street. I spoke with one of the officers personally. People slowed down during the presence, but I haven’t seen the police out again lately.
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