Blog Archive 2013 Author Marks May 16 2013 Tail wagging May 12 2013 A new site design May 10 2013 App.Net for conversations Apr 05 2013 Days of the week with Alfred 2 Apr 01 2013 Generating filename slugs with Alfred 2 Mar 26 2013 Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP Wallpapers Mar 24 2013 Update your mattgemmell.com feed Mar 20 2013 Super Nintendo Controller Wallpapers Mar 13 2013 iPhone 5 Nintendo NES Wallpapers Mar 07 2013 iPhone 5 Super Nintendo Wallpapers Mar 05 2013 Playing Nintendo games on a Mac Mar 02 2013 MGWordCounter Feb 04 2013 The Unfollower Jan 25 2013 Staying Afraid Jan 22 2013 Writing Tools Jan 15 2013 2012 Stories Dec 31 2012 Married Nov 11 2012 iOS Accessibility Heroes and Villains Oct 26 2012 iPhone 5 Hex Grid Wallpapers Sep 25 2012 Sticky Notifications 1.0.3 Aug 31 2012 Sticky Notifications 1.0.1 Aug 28 2012 Releasing Outside the App Store Aug 24 2012 Sticky Notifications Aug 22 2012 Managing Email Realistically Aug 05 2012 Closed for Business Jul 23 2012 Entitlement and Acquisition Jul 21 2012 Replying to App Store reviews Jun 30 2012 My Photoshop setup Jun 18 2012 iPhoto iPad tooltips PSD Jun 08 2012 API Design May 24 2012 MGTileMenu May 14 2012 iPad productivity apps May 02 2012 Familiar is not a design May 01 2012 Misogyny Apr 20 2012 Augmented Paper Apr 13 2012 iPad as a Mac Retina Display Apr 06 2012 Thoughts on Appsterdam Apr 06 2012 iPad 3 Retina Display Lock Screen Mar 16 2012 PlayStation Vita Mar 04 2012 Supporting this blog Feb 28 2012 The Piracy Threshold Feb 17 2012 Sleazy promotions Feb 14 2012 Hashing for privacy in social apps Feb 11 2012 Using PDF images in iOS apps Feb 10 2012 Etched effects in Photoshop Feb 06 2012 How Developers Can Help Designers Feb 06 2012 How Designers Can Help Developers Feb 02 2012 iPhone User Interface Cookbook giveaway Feb 01 2012 Subtle UI texture in Photoshop Jan 29 2012 iBooks Ideas Jan 19 2012 iBooks Author for Authors Jan 19 2012 Morality and Persecution Jan 16 2012 Pseudonyms Jan 14 2012 Comments Commentary Jan 07 2012 Your thoughts on mattgemmell.com Jan 06 2012 Microsoft Signature Jan 05 2012 Nintendo 3DS Review Jan 04 2012 Comments Still Off Jan 03 2012 2011 Opinions in Journalism Dec 28 2011 One Million Dec 23 2011 AllThis Sleazy Dishonesty Dec 21 2011 Open Source Code Dec 19 2011 Women Conference Speakers Dec 15 2011 Dear TextMate Dec 13 2011 Open Source webOS Dec 09 2011 Google Currents Dec 09 2011 Low Expectations Dec 08 2011 Simplicity Dec 07 2011 Latest Version Dec 05 2011 Read and Trust Dec 01 2011 Comments Off Nov 29 2011 Copycats Nov 27 2011 Adobe Communication Nov 09 2011 On/Off Switches Nov 01 2011 Favorites 2 UI design Oct 31 2011 Tap! Magazine for iPad Sep 29 2011 SEO for Non-dicks Sep 20 2011 Public Speaking Sep 16 2011 Lion in VMware Fusion Sep 14 2011 Authorship Sep 12 2011 Blogging With Octopress Sep 12 2011 Pie Menus on iOS Sep 08 2011 Favorite Mailboxes in Lion Mail Sep 07 2011 The Matt Gemmell Daily Aug 18 2011 Google Moto Quotes Aug 15 2011 Using Spaces on OS X Lion Jul 27 2011 Network Link Conditioner in Lion Jul 25 2011 Find Patterns in text on Lion Jul 24 2011 Quick Look previews in Spotlight menu Jul 24 2011 Apps vs the Web Jul 22 2011 Save sheet shortcuts in Lion Jul 21 2011 Renaming flags in Mail on Lion Jul 21 2011 Mac OS X Lion review Jul 20 2011 Courtesy Suicide Jul 10 2011 Using OS X with an SSD plus HDD setup Jun 21 2011 Manually Migrating to a new Mac Jun 20 2011 Makers and Takers May 23 2011 Making Annoying iOS Apps May 19 2011 Critical Customisation Cost of Software May 03 2011 NSConference 2011 Mar 29 2011 Four Years Jan 24 2011 Use my code without attribution Jan 20 2011 Accessibility Reviews for iOS apps Jan 07 2011 MacBook Air 11” Jan 01 2011 2010 Accessibility for iPhone and iPad apps Dec 19 2010 Speaking engagements in 2011 Dec 12 2010 Using Growl with Microsoft Outlook 2011 Mac Nov 03 2010 Favorites with FaceTime Sep 21 2010 Six years of mattgemmell.com Sep 05 2010 Finger Tools Aug 11 2010 MGSplitViewController Updated Aug 03 2010 Free copies of Favorites for iPhone Aug 01 2010 MGSplitViewController for iPad Jul 31 2010 Magic Trackpad Jul 28 2010 Favorites for iOS 4 Jul 21 2010 Touch Notation Jul 14 2010 MGImageUtilities Jul 05 2010 World According To Gemmell Workshop Videos Jun 29 2010 Shareable Experiences Jun 26 2010 iPhone 4 Signal Loss Issues Jun 24 2010 Your App’s Website Sucks Jun 20 2010 Perceived Software Complexity Jun 11 2010 iPad App Pricing Jun 04 2010 iPad VGA Output Jun 01 2010 iPad Multi-Touch May 09 2010 Future directions May 02 2010 Creative Space and iPad Apr 26 2010 The MacTech 25 Apr 25 2010 Making Mistakes Impossible Apr 24 2010 MGTwitterEngine on GitHub Mar 15 2010 Selling Source Code Mar 14 2010 Engineer Thinking Mar 09 2010 iPad Application Design Mar 05 2010 Speaking Feb 27 2010 Send me your NSConference feedback Feb 27 2010 Writing Fiction Online Feb 16 2010 NSConference 2010 US Workshop Feb 08 2010 Ask me anything Feb 07 2010 How to compete with iPad Feb 05 2010 NSConference 2010 Workshop Jan 14 2010 Windows 7 64-bit via Boot Camp with Snow Leopard Jan 10 2010 Resolutions 2010 Jan 03 2010 2009 World According To Gemmell - Getting Started Dec 07 2009 Computing Science as a Service Nov 25 2009 World According To Gemmell - Stay Focused Nov 23 2009 Linode Nov 15 2009 Some kind of Twitter Engine Nov 06 2009 Shady for tired eyes Nov 02 2009 World of Warcraft again Nov 01 2009 Podcast for Application Developers Nov 01 2009 Accessible Blog Redesign Oct 27 2009 Real Usability Oct 04 2009 NSConference 2010 Oct 01 2009 Justice and Mercy Aug 20 2009 Ten and Counting Aug 02 2009 Coffee Times Episode 2 Jul 28 2009 Coffee Times Jul 17 2009 iPhone Development Emergency Guide Jul 14 2009 The World According to Gemmell Jul 05 2009 Sony Reader PRS-505 video review Jun 27 2009 Source code pledge drive Jun 17 2009 Holiday in the Past Jun 11 2009 Star Trek May 08 2009 NSConference 2009 May 01 2009 Client Requests Apr 29 2009 Dock Survey Results Feb 18 2009 Dock Survey Feb 15 2009 Downturn Different Jan 22 2009 The Unconsoled Jan 19 2009 2008 in review Jan 07 2009 2008 Animal Crossing Wii Friend Code Dec 09 2008 What have you tried? Dec 08 2008 iPhone dev tips for synced contacts Oct 31 2008 Gemmell Inside Oct 30 2008 Favorites UI design Oct 29 2008 MGScopeBar Oct 28 2008 Favorites 1.0.1 submitted Oct 27 2008 Announcing Favorites for iPhone Oct 25 2008 MGTemplateEngine for iPhone Oct 21 2008 Logbook for Backpack Journal Oct 02 2008 MGTwitterEngine works on iPhone Oct 02 2008 iPhone NDA to be lifted Oct 01 2008 Apple is listening Sep 27 2008 NaNoWriMo for iPhone apps Aug 17 2008 MGTwitterEngine important update Aug 05 2008 iPhone Developer Complaints Aug 04 2008 iPhone SMS Coping Strategies Jul 22 2008 iPhone 3G on O2 UK Jul 19 2008 Twitter on iPhone Jul 13 2008 MGTwitterEngine updated Jun 06 2008 Twenty Nine Jun 05 2008 Edinburgh Mac developers meetup Jun 03 2008 HUD controls framework for Leopard Jun 02 2008 MGTemplateEngine - Templates with Cocoa May 20 2008 ImageCrop updated May 12 2008 Not pillow talk May 12 2008 Mac devs Manchester meet-up May 07 2008 Mac devs Edinburgh meet-up May 06 2008 Source code update Apr 30 2008 So long, CyberStudio Apr 28 2008 Icon Resource Review Apr 16 2008 Mario Kart Wii Friend Code Apr 12 2008 Random Errors Apr 11 2008 MGTwitterEngine and MGViewAnimation updated Apr 11 2008 FolderSweep source code Apr 10 2008 iPhone Development Apr 03 2008 Icon Resource - Learn to create your own OS X icons Apr 02 2008 Using MAAttachedWindow with an NSStatusItem Mar 04 2008 Computing Society Promo Video Feb 25 2008 Skinnable Cocoa UI with WebKit and CSS Feb 24 2008 MGTwitterEngine - Twitter from Cocoa Feb 22 2008 2007 Irate about User Interface Dec 18 2007 Cylon Paid Search Dec 14 2007 Hierarchical folders in the Leopard Dock with Quay Nov 28 2007 Amazon Kindle Nov 27 2007 Irate Scotsman Nov 26 2007 Source Code Licensing Nov 19 2007 Do you use my source code? Nov 10 2007 MGViewAnimation minor update Nov 09 2007 Blog redesign Nov 08 2007 Convert Jerome’s Keywords to WordPress Tags Nov 06 2007 NSColorWell bug on Leopard Nov 05 2007 How to get a Quick Look preview as an NSImage Oct 29 2007 Get rid of your code with Leopard Oct 28 2007 Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Oct 27 2007 Metroid Prime 3 Corruption Friend Tokens Oct 27 2007 Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass Friend Code Oct 19 2007 MGViewAnimation update Oct 18 2007 DS9 The Fallen for Mac Patches Oct 10 2007 Winter Beard Oct 08 2007 Setting the text color of an NSButton Oct 04 2007 MAAttachedWindow NSWindow subclass Oct 03 2007 MATrackingArea for NSView Sep 26 2007 CoreData Application template issue on Tiger Sep 16 2007 MGViewAnimation update Sep 15 2007 Leopard upgrade rate Sep 13 2007 3 years Sep 05 2007 Music to code to Aug 30 2007 Apple Store Glasgow Aug 25 2007 Happy Birthday Philo Aug 20 2007 Sheercore.com Aug 11 2007 Graph me Aug 07 2007 Even Optimus gets depressed Jul 30 2007 Halfway There Jul 24 2007 Helena’s Brain Jul 17 2007 Another Birthday Jun 04 2007 The necessary arrangements May 18 2007 Engaged May 01 2007 Legend Mar 06 2007 Analogue Feb 20 2007 Blogs, plural Feb 09 2007 Yahoo Pipes Feb 08 2007 Twitter Feb 07 2007 iTunes style in Java Feb 06 2007 Easy Jan 30 2007 Time Style Jan 30 2007 Want to buy a Nintendo Wii? Jan 02 2007 2006 Going indie Dec 16 2006 Wii Number Dec 11 2006 Nintendo Wii has arrived Dec 08 2006 Nintendo Wii Nov 21 2006 MGViewAnimation Nov 13 2006 NSViewAnimation WTF Nov 08 2006 TextMate Nov 04 2006 Milk and Two Oct 29 2006 Software Birthdays Oct 29 2006 Applications 2.0 Oct 25 2006 More RoundedBox updates Oct 12 2006 RoundedBox source code updated Oct 08 2006 Django Oct 06 2006 iLife-style controls source code Oct 05 2006 The pinnacle of an artform Oct 05 2006 2 years on Sep 05 2006 Moved Sep 01 2006 I’m off Aug 25 2006 NSColor+ContrastingLabelExtensions Aug 16 2006 Moving to Edinburgh Jul 27 2006 Stuff I’m selling Jul 23 2006 Some miscellaneous pics Jul 17 2006 Graduation Ball pics are up Jul 02 2006 Blackpoleon Blackaparte Jul 01 2006 Losing Direction Jun 18 2006 Holiday Photos Jun 17 2006 Fame.m May 17 2006 HUDWindow updated May 14 2006 Boot stuff May 14 2006 Creative May 07 2006 Keeping work at work May 01 2006 Lord of the Trees May 01 2006 Metroid Prime Hunters RSI Apr 29 2006 Nintendo DS Lite Apr 25 2006 Dates of Significance Apr 23 2006 Gamegirl Apr 17 2006 The Grammarian Apr 08 2006 Animal Crossing Apr 08 2006 Envelopes Mar 21 2006 Acquisitions Mar 19 2006 ImageCrop source code Mar 16 2006 Grep history Mar 15 2006 Now with added Flickr goodness Mar 14 2006 HUDWindow Mar 12 2006 It’s snowing Mar 12 2006 Technology at Work Mar 10 2006 That’s one big fucking duck Mar 08 2006 Yet another iTunes 5 window code update Mar 05 2006 iCal Birthday Shifter Mar 04 2006 Sheercoreness Mar 01 2006 Sheercore Feb 28 2006 Dual Input in Cocoa Feb 19 2006 Updated iTunes 5 window code (yet again) Feb 19 2006 Updated iTunes 5 window code (again) Feb 12 2006 Writing Feb 05 2006 PDA screenshots Jan 29 2006 Chicken, Brazilians and a Canon XM2 Jan 24 2006 Mac OS X Mobile Jan 22 2006 Dell Axim x51v Jan 19 2006 More PDA thoughts Jan 16 2006 In a dangerous world Jan 16 2006 Matrix stylee Jan 16 2006 Which PDA to get Jan 11 2006 Mario Kart DS Jan 04 2006 2005 Anyone got a spare 17” flat-panel? Dec 19 2005 XXII Group Dec 01 2005 Tags Nov 27 2005 Many updates Nov 23 2005 We are number 1 Nov 20 2005 Cocoa Source Code Page Nov 17 2005 Library panel demo app Nov 15 2005 Proxy drag bug Nov 14 2005 Customer Service Nov 12 2005 RoundedBox source code Nov 08 2005 Hit test algorithm Nov 07 2005 Sexiness Tax Nov 07 2005 World Usability Day Nov 03 2005 RoundedBox NSBox subclass Nov 02 2005 Icon app UI design 2 Oct 31 2005 Erectile Dysfunction Oct 30 2005 UI feedback request Oct 27 2005 Yearcore Oct 26 2005 Haptics Oct 25 2005 Stuffed Oct 21 2005 It’s a paradigm Oct 14 2005 UI Design icon Oct 12 2005 Past the Dragons Oct 07 2005 Professor of Cunning Sep 28 2005 Saved Sep 28 2005 Mousing Sep 22 2005 I Heart Microsoft Sep 18 2005 Bats Sep 18 2005 Your Latest Trick Sep 15 2005 Updated iTunes 5 window code Sep 12 2005 iTunes 5 window style code Sep 09 2005 Call me Captain Sep 08 2005 iTunes 5 Sep 08 2005 Stirling Castle Sep 04 2005 Nemeses Required; Apply Within Sep 02 2005 Unfortunate choice of words Sep 01 2005 Neil.clone() Sep 01 2005 NSFetishism Aug 31 2005 The door in the tower Aug 30 2005 iCal Calendars source Aug 29 2005 Vista Aug 28 2005 8 Meg Aug 26 2005 Happy Healthy Buildings Aug 25 2005 Shifter 1.3 Aug 25 2005 Mensiversary Aug 23 2005 I’m feeling lucky Aug 19 2005 TwuntCam Aug 18 2005 We are the Sultans Aug 12 2005 Flitting Aug 01 2005 Vintage Jul 26 2005 Your Latest Track Jul 22 2005 Buy It Now Jul 18 2005 Supercool Jul 15 2005 Obvious in retrospect Jul 15 2005 Denouement Jun 29 2005 404 Penguins Not Found Jun 28 2005 Return of the King May 30 2005 Quick update May 06 2005 Sword-o-phone Apr 10 2005 1 day Apr 10 2005 Sony Ericsson K700i Apr 10 2005 I Want To Dance With Some Children Apr 08 2005 Put it up to eleven Apr 07 2005 Saudade Apr 05 2005 Psychic iTunes Apr 05 2005 The Motorist Mar 30 2005 Chaos magic Mar 29 2005 Texts Mar 25 2005 Holidays at last Mar 23 2005 Matt Project Mar 17 2005 GoogleX Mar 16 2005 Project Report Mar 15 2005 Office Assistance Mar 10 2005 PowerBack Mar 08 2005 Paper bag day Mar 06 2005 Tomorrow Mar 06 2005 LaurenDempster.com Mar 05 2005 Kitchen Mishap Mar 05 2005 Txt words Mar 03 2005 Alpha male Mar 02 2005 I Love My Mac Feb 28 2005 Destiny Feb 27 2005 Incognito Feb 23 2005 All good Feb 22 2005 self.clone() Feb 21 2005 PowerBook Feb 19 2005 Cheers Feb 12 2005 Apple Software Design Guidelines Feb 10 2005 Scrolling Pie Menus Feb 09 2005 Original version Feb 09 2005 Wine Feb 07 2005 New Year Jan 26 2005 Moderate coreness Jan 16 2005 2004 Carded Dec 29 2004 Sultans Dec 27 2004 Merry Christmas Dec 25 2004 Double Karaoke Dec 24 2004 Laminating heroes Dec 15 2004 Name obsession Dec 15 2004 The Mattress Dec 07 2004 Happy Birthday Lauren! Dec 03 2004 The McInnes Scale Dec 02 2004 Source Dec 02 2004 Feature request Dec 02 2004 Believing Nov 29 2004 Metroid Priorities Nov 26 2004 Slightly Fantastic Nov 23 2004 Sex, drugs and HCI4 Nov 17 2004 Sorry Everybody Nov 17 2004 Talkin’ ‘Bout Love Nov 15 2004 Balm Nov 12 2004 Ground rules Nov 11 2004 Lauren Nov 10 2004 We’re starting a band Nov 07 2004 Fireworks Nov 05 2004 Quizzing Nov 02 2004 Dudelet Nov 01 2004 Hoots mon Oct 31 2004 Welcome back to the Matt Gemmell show Oct 28 2004 Alfie Oct 27 2004 Unmistakably Gemmell Oct 25 2004 Comforting Oct 22 2004 Collaborative Pimping System Oct 17 2004 Played Oct 16 2004 Aw shucks Oct 16 2004 Don’t mention the war Oct 14 2004 We’re building a spanning tree! Oct 13 2004 Evil genius Oct 13 2004 Happy Birthday Steve Oct 13 2004 Computing Heroes Oct 12 2004 Unpublishable Oct 10 2004 Wrathful Oct 07 2004 Rulings Revisited Oct 06 2004 Rebuttal in the Moonlight Oct 05 2004 You took me with a glance Oct 05 2004 Just another day at the office Oct 03 2004 Pie Menus on Mac OS X Oct 02 2004 Vicious Sep 30 2004 Back to the Fourth Year Sep 28 2004 Shangri-La Sep 27 2004 Chicks & flicks Sep 25 2004 Let’s talk about feelings Sep 24 2004 Point Sep 24 2004 McQueen Sep 24 2004 Dapper Deke Sep 23 2004 Warm black Sep 21 2004 I can tell you anything Sep 19 2004 Level 4… Assemble! Sep 19 2004 Unsung Sep 18 2004 Summer’s End Sep 18 2004 Rulelet Sep 17 2004 Ruling reassessment Sep 16 2004 New Music Wednesdays Sep 15 2004 A dangerous world Sep 14 2004 Jagged edges Sep 12 2004 About Matt Sep 11 2004 Honey Bunny Sep 10 2004 PC Wank Sep 10 2004 Such a nice guy Sep 09 2004 Open Day Sep 08 2004 Again on my own Sep 07 2004 Gmail invitations Sep 07 2004 Frankie & Benny’s Sep 06 2004 Countdown to the Apocalypse Sep 06 2004 Mattman Returns Sep 05 2004 mattgemmell.com Sep 05 2004 A Dark New Beginning Sep 05 2004 Epilogue Sep 04 2004 Unattached Aug 26 2004 The Boys are back Aug 19 2004 Entombed in Silence Aug 17 2004 The Mattness Aug 15 2004 Day of Rock Aug 15 2004 Damn sexy Aug 12 2004 You get a shiver in the dark Aug 12 2004 Insinuator Aug 08 2004 Back Aug 08 2004 Pie Menus Label Positioning Aug 04 2004 Month of Rock Aug 03 2004 No Sex Before Marriage Jul 29 2004 Dealing with long menus in pie form Jul 28 2004 More Pie Jul 27 2004 Sorry, you can’t do that Jul 26 2004 Apple Pie Jul 25 2004 Happenings Jul 14 2004 Casting Call Jul 09 2004 Gesticulations Jul 01 2004 Summer Dev, Plan B Jul 01 2004 Tiger Jun 29 2004 Why I Rule Jun 27 2004 Classy Jun 22 2004 Not work safe Jun 21 2004 Summer Dev Jun 20 2004 class Breasts implements Squeezable Jun 16 2004 Network traffic and netstat Jun 12 2004 PoP, Azkaban and Day After Tomorrow Jun 10 2004 Birthdays Jun 09 2004 Finis Jun 04 2004 Final Bob Jun 03 2004 Last day Jun 03 2004 Final Cut May 31 2004 Biker Bob May 31 2004 Chris Rules May 31 2004 Big Brother May 29 2004 Good question May 27 2004 How to succeed in GMM May 26 2004 Ultimate Battle May 26 2004 The Long Drive May 25 2004 The Gathering of the 7 May 19 2004 Dangling dudes May 17 2004 GMM Revision May 14 2004 Career choice May 14 2004 More Japanese May 11 2004 Anyone handy with Japanese? May 10 2004 More Autosave May 10 2004 Taking action! May 08 2004 PNG transparency in MSIE Win May 07 2004 Sharp May 06 2004 Shiiiiiing! May 06 2004 Studying hard May 04 2004 Some guy’s birthday May 01 2004 Kill Poet Apr 27 2004 Kill Bug Apr 26 2004 Scripting, Innit? Apr 23 2004 Turtles, crawlers, and Manlove Apr 22 2004 NSBezierPath: -strokeInside Apr 18 2004 iPie Apr 15 2004 Always giving you extra Apr 14 2004 Neil and How Fucking Ace He Is Apr 13 2004 This Is System Sound Apr 11 2004 Business naming Apr 10 2004 Not Modified Apr 09 2004 OS X app ideas? Apr 09 2004 PowerBack Apr 07 2004 Unusability Apr 06 2004 Almost back Apr 05 2004 Belief Creates Apr 03 2004 Track Buffer Mar 15 2004 You’re not hardcore… Mar 07 2004 Absent for a bit Feb 29 2004 Blog me! I’m worth it! Feb 18 2004 Girls’ Night In Feb 15 2004 Worrying Feb 15 2004 class Poet extends Lecturer Feb 12 2004 Dire Straits Feb 11 2004 Elephant – The White Stripes Feb 08 2004 “You and your Climactic Confrontations” Feb 08 2004 Memoir design questions Feb 07 2004 RoundedFloatingPanel Feb 07 2004 Happy Birthday Fiona! Feb 06 2004 iTableColumnHeader Feb 05 2004 Memoir Feb 02 2004 Great King of Evil Feb 01 2004 Best of Irate Scotsman Jan 31 2004 Valentine’s Protocol Jan 31 2004 Need an old modem Jan 31 2004 Sit Down Jan 27 2004 Best license plate ever? Jan 26 2004 New comments system Jan 25 2004 Lyrical Tourette’s Jan 24 2004 Anyone selling an iPod? Jan 22 2004 MP3 naming sins Jan 22 2004 First GarageBand experiment Jan 21 2004 Uli’s Toolbar Icons Jan 19 2004 Answers on a postcard… Jan 18 2004 Blog redesign Jan 17 2004 Idle Rich Jan 14 2004 Why is this funny? Jan 13 2004 First ever text from Fiona Jan 11 2004 Old posts posted Jan 11 2004 Matt, reviewed Jan 08 2004 iCalendar Update Jan 07 2004 import “fiona.h” Jan 05 2004 Erm… what? Jan 05 2004 For Gary Jan 03 2004 2003 iCalendar Dec 31 2003 iCal Colored Checkboxes Dec 29 2003 Naming Software Dec 28 2003 ImagePopUpButton Dec 27 2003 Name for a diary app? Dec 26 2003 iTableView Dec 26 2003 Neil and friend Dec 24 2003 XP Dec 23 2003 Stoplights Dec 21 2003 Caption competition Dec 20 2003 Women Dec 08 2003 Geek Sexy Dec 07 2003 More uni pics Dec 06 2003 Lab-based action Dec 01 2003 Bluetooth in Mac OS X Nov 29 2003 Friday happenings Nov 29 2003 Sharing the love Nov 27 2003 Tag Team Txting Nov 26 2003 Guy Talk Nov 26 2003 Coding Hats Nov 23 2003 Macs killed my inner child Nov 19 2003 True danger Nov 16 2003 Freedom 90 Nov 16 2003 Bill Gates is dead Nov 16 2003 Anyone got an O2 X1 phone? Nov 15 2003 Minor blog changes Nov 15 2003 Ninja Monkeys Nov 12 2003 Doing the Right Thing Nov 11 2003 Brotherly Love Nov 09 2003 Hot or Not Nov 09 2003 Obscure but cool Panther features Nov 09 2003 Shiny new domain Nov 06 2003 Wrapping up warm Oct 18 2003 Cancer not found Oct 16 2003 Whas’ Crackulatin’? Oct 14 2003 A small suggestion Oct 13 2003 Porn patrol Oct 12 2003 Thundercats Hooooooooooooo! Oct 10 2003 Project assignment Oct 10 2003 In a galaxy far, far away Oct 09 2003 Talk English, boy! Oct 09 2003 Banter Oct 09 2003 Shifter frenzy Oct 08 2003 LaTeX question Oct 08 2003 Unsettling Oct 07 2003 Robot dogs Oct 07 2003 Lectures on the Bridge Oct 06 2003 Remote login via SSH Oct 06 2003 Frankie & Benny’s Oct 05 2003 LaTeX on OS X Oct 04 2003 Agonising pun Oct 01 2003 The Team Oct 01 2003 Better Sep 27 2003 A tale of souls and stitches Sep 26 2003 Geeks and dorks Sep 21 2003 This rod will be your doom! Sep 18 2003 You are a true hero, and your legend will never die Sep 17 2003 A Good Day Sep 15 2003 The Soul Still Burns Sep 14 2003 Welcome back to the Stage of History Sep 13 2003 Petrol and Peace Aug 30 2003 Gillian Anderson desktop Aug 29 2003 Child porn and rocket launchers Aug 27 2003 Drive Aug 26 2003 X-Fanfic Aug 26 2003 Erm… what? Aug 11 2003 Heat soup Aug 09 2003 Inconsistent memories Aug 09 2003 Space Cabbages Aug 03 2003 Treatise UI Mockup Aug 02 2003 Changes to my feeds Aug 01 2003 Treatise Jul 31 2003 UI Nightmares: Moodstats Jul 30 2003 How to be a complete arsehole - part 1 Jul 30 2003 Autosave Jul 24 2003 Paul Bradforth Jul 24 2003 G5 Compatibility icon Jul 24 2003 BBEdit 7.0.4 Jul 24 2003 Thinking about Thistle Jul 23 2003 iChat’s welcome Jul 23 2003 Proj Builder completion dictionary Jul 22 2003 Wiki integration for Thistle/PHPosxom Jul 22 2003 Playing with PhpWiki Jul 21 2003 Prettier URLs Jul 21 2003 WhichWhich WikiWiki? Jul 20 2003 Development freebie policy Jul 19 2003 What icons would be useful for developers? Jul 18 2003 Address Book sample code Jul 17 2003 RSS 1.0 / RDF for Thistle Jul 16 2003 First female Thistle user? Jul 16 2003 Cretin Tracker PerversionTracked Jul 16 2003 I prefer Zelda Jul 14 2003 Miss URLd Jul 14 2003 Hmmm… Jul 13 2003 Getting the most from this blog Jul 13 2003 Should I have personal posts here? Jul 13 2003 Bah by popular demand Jul 12 2003 Pigs on the grass Jul 12 2003 Thanks, Matthew Jul 12 2003 Forums are back up Jul 12 2003 Thistle 0.3 patch available Jul 11 2003 Source code page updated Jul 11 2003 Application icon template Jul 10 2003 Congratulations to VoodooPad! Jul 10 2003 NSTextView Party Jul 10 2003 Embedded RTFD Jul 10 2003 Conclusions about live URLs in editable text Jul 08 2003 Fiona’s first Mac app Jul 08 2003 Dealing with live URLs in editable text Jul 06 2003 hURLer Jul 05 2003 REALbasic bundled with CodeWarrior Jul 03 2003 A Better TextFinder Jul 02 2003 Announcing SS_PrefsController Jun 28 2003 More great icons released! Jun 27 2003 Fountain Pen and Browser Toolbar icons Jun 25 2003 Let’s end the icons crisis! Jun 24 2003 Panther hunted for tabs theft Jun 23 2003 Mailbox Plister for Mailsmith Jun 22 2003 Mailsmith and the Release Notes Pervert Jun 19 2003 Aqua Icon Kit Jun 17 2003 Replacing styled text Jun 17 2003 Just removeFromBloodySuperview Jun 17 2003 “Command-K is so abused!” Jun 16 2003 Grab-scrolling in an NSImageView Jun 16 2003 I love it when you code Jun 15 2003 NSFindPanel Jun 15 2003 Revert to Saved Jun 14 2003 Another stupid royal Jun 13 2003 Dreamcast thoughts Jun 12 2003 The Legend will never die Jun 10 2003 More about the hack Jun 10 2003 Yes, we were hacked Jun 10 2003 The Matrix Reloaded Jun 08 2003 More Screen Sharing Jun 08 2003 Icon for videogames? Jun 06 2003 Playing with Rendezvous Jun 06 2003 Splinter Cell playable demo with NGC! Jun 05 2003 Happy Birthday to me Jun 05 2003 80s ending Jun 05 2003 Dreamcast Jun 03 2003 Birthday approaching May 31 2003 Lazy replay value May 31 2003 Anonymous Coward May 30 2003 Keeping perspective May 30 2003 Train crash May 29 2003 Ikaruga May 29 2003 Yes, she’s a gamer May 28 2003 More Life on Earth May 28 2003 Life on Earth May 26 2003 Metroid Prime May 24 2003 Rayman 3 May 22 2003 Games stuff May 21 2003 Small beer bottles May 20 2003 New incoming email policy May 20 2003 “Making love” May 20 2003 More about Burnout 2 & memory-cards May 20 2003 Day of games May 19 2003 Church bells May 18 2003 Play Sonic online! May 15 2003 The Lessons of Zelda May 14 2003 The final insult May 13 2003 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen May 10 2003 No more upgrades May 08 2003 Matt reviews May 07 2003 Keeping old software available May 07 2003 WaveBird May 07 2003 Road Tax May 07 2003 General stupidity May 06 2003 ScottyGraffle May 06 2003 Ball Dogs May 05 2003 Wind Waker May 03 2003 Get off my bridge May 02 2003 Appreciating nature May 01 2003 Stopping spam Apr 30 2003 First strike era Apr 29 2003 Ruler of the Universe Apr 27 2003 Good movie tie-ins Apr 27 2003 Johnny English Apr 26 2003 Venlafaxine side-effects Apr 25 2003 Engagement traditions Apr 25 2003 Time patterns Apr 22 2003 QotD: Daily questions Apr 22 2003 Parking ticket Apr 22 2003 More on metaphysics Apr 21 2003 Bored with computers Apr 21 2003 Remote central-locking nipples Apr 21 2003 Car Protocol followup Apr 20 2003 Feeling the join Apr 17 2003 Static Apr 17 2003 Car Protocol Apr 16 2003 Metaphysics Apr 14 2003 Potter Apr 10 2003 Tired beyond belief! Apr 07 2003 We’re back Apr 07 2003 Bye for now! Mar 23 2003 Thistle Alpha 2 Release Mar 23 2003 Thistle progress Mar 21 2003 Open… Using… Mar 21 2003 Thistle Alpha Release Mar 20 2003 We are the Sultans Mar 20 2003 OK, I lied Mar 20 2003 Thistle Error-handling Mar 20 2003 New adventures in RSS Mar 19 2003 Thistle To Do Mar 19 2003 File hijackers Mar 19 2003 Irate Scotsman now uses Thistle Mar 18 2003 Two BIG Thistle improvements Mar 17 2003 Thistle ListCats Mar 17 2003 Templates and Categories Mar 16 2003 Thistle categories Mar 16 2003 Thinking about Thistle’s architecture Mar 15 2003 Blog Wiki Blog Mar 15 2003 We hates blogs Mar 14 2003 BBEdit AppleScripts for obsessive coders Mar 14 2003 More Thistle work Mar 13 2003 Thistle development Mar 13 2003 Introducing… Mar 12 2003 Fiona’s Desktastic Scribble Mar 12 2003 PHPosxom Modules released! Mar 11 2003 Improved “Printable” view Mar 10 2003 Mistaken identity Mar 10 2003 Comments system released! Mar 09 2003 Microsoft MenuItemTextField Mar 09 2003 More on ethics Mar 09 2003 Naming competition! Mar 08 2003 Comments implementation finalised Mar 08 2003 Hexley desktop Mar 07 2003 Invalid Serial Mar 07 2003 include “ethics.h” Mar 06 2003 Nightwalkers Mar 05 2003 Perls of wisdom? Mar 04 2003 New logo Mar 04 2003 Bah Mar 04 2003 Search functionality for PHPosxom Mar 03 2003 Want to talk about PHPosxom hacks? Mar 02 2003 “Read More” updated Mar 02 2003 Fiona’s blog refocuses on cross-stitching Mar 01 2003 This was made for me Mar 01 2003 More “Comments” updates Mar 01 2003 Testing Smilies Mar 01 2003 Unsubscribe, damn it! Mar 01 2003 TotalEntries module for PHPosxom Feb 28 2003 Slight redesign Feb 28 2003 Fiona gave me a certificate Feb 28 2003 Working on weblogs.com ping Feb 27 2003 Comments Implemented! Feb 27 2003 Getting there… Feb 26 2003 “Read More” Implemented Feb 26 2003 TrackBacks implemented Feb 25 2003 I thought we’d discussed this… Feb 25 2003 Rendezvous ideas Feb 25 2003 UI Armageddon Feb 24 2003 iratescotsman.com Feb 23 2003 PHPosxom Comments Feb 23 2003 “Printable” Links Implemented Feb 22 2003 About Matt Feb 21 2003 About this blog Feb 21 2003 Blogroll Feb 21 2003 Where are all the older posts? Feb 21 2003 Cross-stitch software features? Feb 19 2003 Search Feb 19 2003 iChat iRritations Feb 18 2003 Cocoa Localized Nibs Feb 17 2003 iCal Birthday Shifter 1.2 Feb 16 2003 Apple UI: a brighter note Feb 14 2003 Apple “Switch to OS X” UI Tips Feb 13 2003 Stargazing Feb 12 2003 Yet more Apple UI strangeness Feb 12 2003 New Safari Feb 12 2003 NSSchizophrenicControls Feb 12 2003 A foolish consistency Feb 11 2003 Nails in the dogcoffin Feb 10 2003 Death of a Dogcow Feb 09 2003 Some people actually think like this Feb 09 2003 What the hell? Feb 09 2003 How do you use ichat: URLs? Feb 09 2003 Fiona is dreaming of StarFox Feb 08 2003 Lazy, good-for-nothing bloggers Feb 08 2003 Happy Birthday Fiona! Feb 06 2003 Dreamcatcher Feb 06 2003 End of the day Feb 05 2003 We’re going on holiday Feb 05 2003 Safari is really taking off Feb 03 2003 New books! Feb 03 2003 Got more bandwidth Feb 03 2003 Snowball fight Feb 02 2003 Paranormal experiences Feb 02 2003 Taken and Dreamcatcher Jan 31 2003 Safari CSS puzzlement Jan 31 2003 Evil -ists! Jan 31 2003 Oh God You Devil Jan 31 2003 None Jan 30 2003 PopUpImage now available Jan 29 2003 Human requirements for software Jan 29 2003 C discourages commenting your code? Jan 29 2003 Cocoa PopUpImage class coming soon Jan 28 2003 Exams went fine Jan 28 2003 Everyone’s a paedophile Jan 28 2003 Just tomorrow to get through now Jan 26 2003 AntiSpam article coming soon Jan 24 2003 Need a new icon for BloggerOff Jan 24 2003 Mac’s 19th Birthday Jan 24 2003 The day today Jan 23 2003 Mail.app suffers from amnesia! Jan 23 2003 Cocoa source code: GetNetApps Jan 22 2003 My Girl (My Girl…, etc) Jan 21 2003 Quick update Jan 21 2003 Had a pleasant evening Jan 20 2003 The Mattmobile Jan 20 2003 Strange dreams Jan 20 2003 Brief History of Clarisworks Jan 19 2003 I’m currently listening to… Jan 19 2003 Installing MT on Mac OS X Jan 19 2003 Is this a wise course of action, sir? Jan 18 2003 Almost Standards Jan 18 2003 Cocoa snap-to-edge windows Jan 18 2003 Old Mac OS habits die hard Jan 18 2003 Embedding WebCore Jan 18 2003 More! More! MORE! Jan 18 2003 Off to watch The Last Starfighter Jan 18 2003 Bling Bling Jan 18 2003 Fiona had a successful first day Jan 18 2003 Good GOD, who the hell is THAT?! Jan 17 2003 More Blog Updates Jan 17 2003 Safari Feature Requests Jan 17 2003 Blog Tweaking Jan 16 2003 Cocoa vs REALbasic Jan 15 2003 Safari Jan 15 2003 Watson Jan 14 2003 Oh, and here’s BloggerOff Jan 13 2003 Coming Soon: NeXT Dock Jan 13 2003 Shifter Jan 13 2003 Cretins Jan 11 2003 Females with email Jan 08 2003 Quite a day Jan 07 2003 Data DIES! Jan 04 2003 Still alive! Jan 02 2003 2002 Thai Dec 06 2002 Fiona is going to be an aunt! Dec 05 2002 PHP/MySQL Nov 29 2002 New forums online Nov 26 2002 Donnie Darko Nov 17 2002 Nooz Nov 16 2002 DV camcorder arrived Nov 12 2002 Today Nov 10 2002 Finally fixed the CSS Nov 09 2002 Fiona isn’t well Nov 09 2002 BloggerOff update Nov 07 2002 Fiona now has her blog back Nov 03 2002 Finally Nov 02 2002 Testing… Nov 02 2002 A new blog is born… Nov 02 2002 By the way Oct 16 2002 112 shines Oct 16 2002 Read Me Oct 15 2002 110 shines… Oct 14 2002 Mario yet again Oct 12 2002 More Mario Oct 12 2002 75 shines Oct 10 2002 VeriSign are scum Oct 09 2002 Sorry, you aren’t sufficiently literate to post a comment right now! Oct 08 2002 GameCube Controller Oct 08 2002 Sunshine Oct 08 2002 Something strange with TIFFs and NSImage Oct 08 2002 60 shines! Oct 07 2002 Another progress report Oct 06 2002 Progress Report Oct 05 2002 GOT IT! Oct 04 2002 Less than 9 hours Oct 04 2002 Why don’t you just BloggerOff?! Oct 03 2002 Less than 12 hours to go… Oct 03 2002 20 HOURS TO GO! Oct 03 2002 Fiona is back! Oct 03 2002 Time for some sleep Oct 02 2002 Less than 48 hours to go Oct 02 2002 Fiona has left for Rothesay Oct 02 2002 Blogger bugs Oct 02 2002 Fiona is going to stay with her parents tomorrow Oct 01 2002 Strange behaviour with NSMenu Oct 01 2002 Fame at last! Oct 01 2002 Dinner and a… Mario! Oct 01 2002 Just had a rant at Apple Oct 01 2002 3 days to go… Oct 01 2002 Taking a short break Sep 30 2002 BlogThing update Sep 30 2002 Once again, the Big Man doesn’t disappoint Sep 30 2002 Got the album Sep 30 2002 Must… sleep… soon…! Sep 29 2002 Testing my smilies Sep 29 2002 And another tricky thing… Sep 29 2002 Defaults, defaults, defaults Sep 29 2002 Had lunch Sep 29 2002 Fiona’s Blog Sep 29 2002 5 days till Mario Sunshine… Sep 29 2002 Today’s work on BlogThing begins Sep 29 2002 Mart goes off to uni in Edinburgh today Sep 29 2002 Coding the day away (tomorrow) Sep 28 2002 Super Mario Sunshine site! Sep 28 2002 Interesting article on VersionTracker user reviews Sep 28 2002 BlogThing is born! Sep 28 2002 Curse of… the Software Developer! AARRRGGHH! Sep 28 2002 Oh, and another thing Sep 28 2002 Reserved Mario Sunshine… Sep 28 2002 Thought for the day Sep 28 2002 Lose Sep 28 2002 Awake again Sep 28 2002 Blosxom Sep 27 2002 Updated the Archive page template Sep 27 2002 Liar Liar Sep 27 2002 Big Man shall triumph on Monday Sep 27 2002 Sunshine soon! Sep 27 2002 Time for dinner! Sep 27 2002 So here we are. Blogging. Sep 27 2002