A few months ago, I moved back to my old house. Today I’ve moved my first Apple computer back into my room…

My first computer is from 1993-1994, an Apple Performa 630CD with Mac os 7.1.2p.

• System: Mac os 7.1.2 Pro (with system enabler 405)
• Motorola 68LC040 33MH processor with 8KB L1 cache
• bus speed: 33 MHz
• internal drive: 250MB
• I guess 4-8MB RAM

I had one game (demo) on this mac… called ‘Marathon’. A very cool game!

The game is a first shooter and rocks!!
Okay, it doesn’t have the graphics of to say ‘waaw’, but don’t believe the age of this game!

The game is still available on the internet as free download. You can download 3 versions of the game (you need also to download the engine). It is a little bit confused to get it installed but… it has a multiplayer feature!!!

Okay, it was historical to see my old computer back… and he still works. I’ve filmed the boot process and it is just… to love! I love the old computers of Apple!

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it is crazy…

you visit a website… and you see adds
-> I saw adds, because ‘Safari AdBlock’ blocked every add for me!)
you want to read your mail… and you got SPAM mails..
-> But the Gmail engine has a very good spam-filter… so no problem

So, I was spam/add free… until a week ago.
If I’m working on some projects, I have always Apple’s iChat running… (my codingmammoth screenname: CodingMammoth). And this works very very smooth.

But since a week ago, I receive some messages from an AIM-Bot. His name ends always with ‘trout’ and he is talking about strange stuff… but yeah, it is just a ’stupid’ bot… but ‘he’ is smart…

For example this ‘chat conversation’. This image is a screenshot of his first ‘conversation’ with me… and if you take a look to his answers… you should think that this is a really person and not a bot… is it a bot? or a person… I hope a bot!

Does anyone notice this problem also?
I asked another friend of me and he noticed the same bot, but every time with another name… (always ending with ‘Trout’)…

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Some persons will know Twitter, other persons not.
Logical expression, isn’t?

Twitter is a small system with one big mysterious question:
What are you doing?

The idea is that everyone that uses twitter, give sometimes an answer on this question. For example: Busy with installing a debian server, or going to a football lesson…
The idea behind thus system is: You know people via chat systems, but you don’t know how there are in real life. If you follow their Twitter page, you can know what the people are doing in their spare time.

I have also a Twitter account for CodingMammoth, you can read my tweets at http://www.twitter.com/codingmammoth

Useful? Sometimes …

Get your on Twitter account at http://twitter.com,
You cal follow persons at twitter to receive their messages.
If you don’t like the webinterface,
you can also use a standalone application (like Twitterific…) and their are also tools available for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

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The fastest update ever!

Okay, it started very strange… Normally, I receive about 25-50 mails per day. But yesterday, I only received 2 little mails… strange!

Monday, I’ve released QuickScale 3.6.5 (and I will blog some more information about that release soon). QuickScale 3.6.5 was a release that solved some memory leaks but it seems that I was to soon with giving memory free. As result, the ‘register’ panel in QuickScale disappeared within a second (because I gave that memory free…). Okay, it is my fault but it is also the fault about a tool I will talk soon at my blog.
Some users had send me an e-mail with the problem that they couldn’t activate their QuickScale-version…

The problem was that I received this mails today, and not yesterday (when they are send)… frustrating… as soon I received the mails, I solved the problem and QuickScale 3.6.6 is released.

My mails (@CodingMammoth.com) are handled by Gmail (Google Apps) and it is strange that their was a delay of one day on my mails…

It was a strange day, but finally, I’m receiving back some mails
My excuses for the problems that some of you couldn’t activate their QuickScale!

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Today,
I’ve written my first screensaver.

I was doing a little research on the internet about the fact that a time can be saved as the number of seconds elapsed since 1/1/1970. (for more information see Wikipedia.org. Because I’m a little check-freak (with numbers, graphs, etc) I wanted to create something little to see this number counting… so I decided to create a screensaver.

ScreenSavers are written in Cocoa, so it isn’t difficult for me because QuickScale is also written in Cocoa.

You can download my screensaver and use it for free.

SecSaver.saver.zip

If you have an idea for a nice screensaver or If you want to have a personal screensaver (for your company for example), just send an e-mail to info@codingmammoth.com .

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I’ve just released a new version of QuickScale.

The newest version of QuickScale (for Leopard) is now 3.6.5 .

The download weights 2.9 MB and can be downloaded from here.

The release-notes are very short.
I’ve just fixed some potential bugs and memory leaks.

QuickScale did only use around 50-150 MB memory (with scaling unlimited number of images) and that will be better now.

Soon I will blog about a little developer-application to find bugs…

This release is off course a free update for all registered users!

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Hi,

Just a very short message…
QuickScale 3.6.5 will be released tomorrow…!
Leopard only.

More information about this release will be published tomorrow on this blog.
Stay tuned!

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Hi

QuickScale 3.6.4 will be released on 19 july 2008.

QuickScale 3.6.4 has some new features and fixes some little bugs.
A new feature is for example the possibility to get a preview from the selected image with the new size, file-type settings and the file-size… (For example: The differences (like file-size, quality, …) between JPG full quality and 3/4 quality on a specific image).

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Yahoo, QuickScale is reviewed on MacApper.
Of course, they did ask permission… but I need to confess that I like the review
You can read the article at this page.

There was a little fault in the article: “If you like choosing how many digits your index number will be, then with QuickScale you are out of luck, because it does not allow you to do this.”. You need to know that this is possible, if you click on the triangle at the right side of the index-token (in the Custom Name - Editor).

The article is going about some good aspects of QuickScale but also about the bad side of QuickScale,
and that can be very interesting for a developer.

So, If you have some suggestions for QuickScale, please e-mail me at info@codingmammoth.com or use the feedback form Or if you want to review QuickScale on your own site, just send an email to request a test-serial.

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