Marc Charbonneau’s Blog

I started using ExpanDrive today, a SFTP application that uses MacFUSE to access a remote server in Finder. There was a good review of it a few weeks ago at Daring Fireball, and I’ve been hearing good things from several other developers.
The appeal of ExpanDrive is that it “just works;” you don’t have to worry [...]

Cocoa developer Craig Hockenberry wants you to file a bug report on the OS X license restrictions that prevent desktop virtualization:
How can you develop new products for Leopard when you need to have Tiger installed for supporting your legacy applications? How easy is it to test a new feature on Mac OS X 10.4.11 when [...]

The iPhone SDK has finally landed, bringing with it real Exchange support, WPA2 and other goodies. You can watch the announcement event here, or read highlights and commentary at Daring Fireball.
Although I don’t own an iPhone (yet), I did download the SDK and look forward to playing with it. My feelings about the price structure [...]

Congratulations to Omni Group for the latest release of OmniGraffle earlier this week. I haven’t had a chance to use it much yet, but it seems like an impressive release in terms of features and improvements, as well as taking advantage of new Leopard only technologies.
Omni applications have always had great attention to detail, which [...]

The new MacBook Air looks like an great machine, and I wish I had a need for one. I don’t have a desktop at home, and I doubt I would be happy with the Air’s performance as my primary workstation, so planning on sticking with my MacBook Pro for the foreseeable future.
What’s exciting to me [...]

Mac Giving Tree; free OSX software from the folks behind the MacHeist promotion. No requirements, except signing up for a MacHeist forums account.

From TidBITS Networking:
Leopard includes more information about Wi-Fi networks in the vicinity of your computer than meets the eye. Mac OS X 10.5 updates the AirPort menu in the system menu bar after you select, which is a neat feature and provides more accurate results. It also shows a lock icon next to networks protected [...]

I’ve been a fan of Pandora Internet Radio for a few years, and one of the few things I dislike about it is that it can be annoying to keep the flash-based audio player open in your web browser. It turns out though, that this is a perfect fit for Leopard’s new WebClip Dashboard Widget. [...]

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review:
DTrace and Xray invite good questions. “How many files does my application open on launch?” “How many times is a particular function called?” “What does the memory usage of my application look like over time?” DTrace and Xray make the previously daunting task of answering these questions [...]