Matt Legend Gemmell Modesty is Lying

Hierarchical folders in the Leopard Dock with Quay

Still hate Stacks in the Leopard Dock? Rainer Brockerhoff has just released version 1.0 of Quay, his Leopard-or-later utility to give you back hierarchical browsing of folders in the Dock.
It uses no hacks or hidden features, and actually gives you a fair bit more functionality than Tiger’s Dock used to. €7 shareware (about $10).

Amazon Kindle

So much has already been said about the Kindle, but I wanted to offer my own thoughts. It’s just how I am.
First off, let me state two things for the record:

I have never owned an electronic book reader device.
I’ve probably wanted one since before I was capable of articulating the thought.

Irate Scotsman

Some of you may recall that before starting mattgemmell.com, I had a previous blog at iratescotsman.com (my registration of which has long since lapsed). Today, I’ve imported the posts from that old blog into this one - around 500 posts in all.

Source Code Licensing

I was reading the Open Handset Alliance FAQ recently, and noticed that it mentioned the old source code licensing issue. That, along with a few emails I’ve received regarding my own code, made me decide to briefly state my own position on source code licensing.

Do you use my source code?

I was thinking recently that it would be nice to get an idea of who’s using my Cocoa source code, whether it’s in shipping apps or otherwise. Plenty of you have emailed me when you’ve used some of my code, but I know it’s easy to forget to do that, especially if the release date [...]