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

I purchased an app on the Mac App store a couple months ago and then went to install it on one of my other systems, but the app was no where to be found by searching so I went to my purchased list, and still found nothing. The app was completely gone.

Luckily, the app only cost me 3 bucks and the developer re-added it under a different name for free, so it wasn’t a huge lost, but if this would have been a 30-300 dollar app and I had no other copy I would have been really upset.

So be sure to backup your apps. That way if this does ever happen you have some where to fall back on other then the Mac App Store.

I think the features I am looking to most is the new Mail app and Launchpad. I don’t see the Full-Screen Apps being that usable for me with my multi-monitor setup and I’m hoping that Mission Control will work well with it, but I’ve heard otherwise. Unless Apple figures it out before the final release.

The heart-wrenching factor will come with the download time from the installer itself. With everyone trying to download it at the same time I see it taking an easy 5 or more hours just to download it, but maybe that new datacenter can help there too.

UPDATE: Apple did release the GM (Gold Master) version of the OS yesterday, July 1st, 2011. Which is great news, because the Gold Master is usually the copy they send out to start the disc making progress, but since they aren’t making discs for this version, that means they just have to hit a button to make it avaliable on the App Store and we’re all good to go! Rumor is that will either happen on the 6th or 19th. Let all hope it’s the 6th!

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.

Some of you may be thinking: well since it is you dream system why not go even more powerful with the MacPro and heck add even more monitors. That used to be what I thought too, but I am getting more into a less clutter the better frame of mind and I really love the fact that the new iMacs can handle two displays with the new thunderbolt technology.

That’s my current dream system, whats yours?

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.

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.

I’ve found myself staring at the same section of code for hours. I’d figure out a possible solutions and forgetting where I was going before I could finish. I’d probably been more productive sleeping rather then coding and possibly messing up my code even more, but whats done is done.

On the bright side, I’m now on the mend and I don’t have anywhere I have to be tomorrow (saturday) so I plan to make up for all my lack of productivity.

I downloaded the source code and tested it out. It works pretty well, definitely needs some fine tuning and polish, but it is a good place to start if your interested in QR Code reader apps. The AppStore is already full of them and even some good free one, so don’t expect to make any money on one, but if you interested in learning how to develop for the iOS family an app like this could be a decent place to start once you do a few of the simple “Hello World” and what not apps.

Also if your interested in making your own QR Codes I saw an article last week titled “HOW TO: Make Your QR Codes More Beautiful“. If you ask me you have to make these things stick out if you’re really wanting people to use them.