So who’s the moron that updated his wordpress theme after spending hours modifying it?…… Me!

Yep back to the old dated theme until I can find some time to change it all over again or until I finally just break down and buy the Standard Theme from 8bit.io

Updated: For now I am going to use the Starter Theme provided by tentblogger.com

This Fathers Day my amazing wife surprised me with the best possible photo of our first child. Him with glasses on and my old Macintosh SE. He’ll be turning 5 months old in a few more days and you better believe their will be more nerdom to come.

Oh and this (picture below) was the first picture taken for the public to see after her was born. Poor kid was only 30mins old and daddy was already putting glasses on him. Which, I must say he’s really grown into the glasses quite well.

UPDATED: For some reason the Developer release the next version as a separate app. Links are now updated and the App is called Lock Screen 2 and as of now the app is Free.

As I was struggling this week to get an blog post in I found the most amazing little app called Lock Screen (SlideToUnlock) in the Mac App Store.

I’ve been using an Expose’ hot corner and locked screensaver to protect my system for years and I hated that there was no easy two key press locking system like on windows. I’ve tried a few others in the past, but none compare to this. All it takes is going into the preferences and setting up what they call a PassPattern just any combination of keys to slide across (Tip: don’t make it too hard or you’ll lock yourself out. Don’t jump rows!).

After you have your PassPattern set, you can hold the (⌘)-L keys down and your system locks right away with whatever wallpaper you set in the preferences. It’s that simple.

Be sure to pick it up today while it is still on sell!

Also incase you do lock your self out. When you get back in to remove the old PassPattern. Close the lockscreen app and navigate to Home->Library->Preferences and in there find the file “th.co.idevelop.lockscreen.plist” and delete it. Reopen the app and you can set a new PassPattern.

As I wait on my app to load I figured I’d write a quick blog post about how lack of development time can really result in some pretty ugly code.

I guess it also depends on the developer, but personally I know when I have a rushed development job my code takes the beating for it. I always end up with oddly named variable like sAnotherTest or iTryThis, so all I really know from the name is what type it is, I usually try to at least keep that info. But don’t even think about commenting or at least informative in 6 months from now comments.

So I hope you didn’t come here for help on it, cause I am not the one to do it, but if you do happen to be a developer and have any tips, feel free to leave them in the comments.

Last few days I have spent numerous hours trying to organize my files to reach inbox zero not only at home, but also at work.

I do my best to keep my home account fairly organized with rules and many many folders, so I was able to turn 500+ emails into 0 in very little time, but at work with the 4,000+ things got a little more complicated. But I figured I would share a few tips on my methods. and new organization since was able to turn 4000+ emails in my inbox into 4.

Recipient’s folders – I believe no matter how small or big the company you work for is you need to create a folder for every employee in the company that emails you on a regular basis. If you have some that only email once or twice a year then that may be able to go in an “others” folder if is it something you need to keep.

Timed Rules – At work I have multiple projects emailed from multiple sources a day usually these projects are due within a period of about 5 days and usually I wont start on them until day 4 or 5. So I have setup some times rules so that after a period of 1 week that my emails will automatically get sorted into the Recipient’s folder

Trash it! – Why are you keeping all those emails? seriously do you really need 1,000+ emails in your inbox. Throw them out. I know I personally had probably 1,000+ emails that were just basically spam(that I signed up for). There is no reason to keep it. Read the email and trash it, don’t save it for more then a week or before you know it you’ll be back where you started.

Thats all. There is no need to make you inbox more complicated then it already is. It a very simple system so keep it that way.

Seeing this video over the weekend made me have to bring back the Tuesday’s Video Pick for at least this week.

Hope you enjoy.